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Leadership frameworks for turning failure into growth
How do you deal with failure? Do you have a bunch of motivational quotes to help you reframe the experience? How do you process the deep shame and anxiety you feel with it? I think we need to RETHINK FAILURE. It’s not just feedback. We need to fail with a framework.
Why you should listen: reframe failure into a leadership strength
Give yourself permission to fail
How rejection is akin to physical trauma
Two frameworks we need for failure: external risks like financials and safety, and one for ego and reputation
How to create a corporate culture where it's safe to fail
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Shownotes:
The key frameworks:
Ask so you can learn.
Try so you can grow.
Permission Granted
Permission granted to be, indulge yourself, do the unexpected, stop with unrealistic expectations, get started, to not fit in, be alone, stop catastrophising, stop feeling sorry, break tradition, enjoy the weather.
Stories of Failure
Desensitize yourself to failure.
Jia Jiang: 100 days of rejection
Letitia Gasca: Failure Institute
Leticia Gasca is co-founder of the movement Fuckup Nights and Executive Director for the Failure Institute, the first think tank in the world devoted to studying business failure and the reasons behind it.
Quotes about Failure
Think like a queen. A queen is not afraid to fail. Failure is another stepping stone to greatness. - Oprah Winfrey
Sometimes by losing a battle you find a new way to win the war. - Donald Trump
Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts. - Winston ChurchillI have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work. - Thomas A. Edison
I can accept failure, everyone fails at something. But I can't accept not trying. - Michael Jordan
Your attitude towards failure determines your altitude after failure. - John C. Maxwell
There is no such thing as failure. There are only results. - Tony Robbins
Failure saves lives. In the airline industry, every time a plane crashes the probability of the next crash is lowered by that. The Titanic saved lives because we're building bigger and bigger ships.
So these people died, but we have effectively improved the safety of the system, and nothing failed in vain. - Nassim Nicholas Taleb
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Related episodes on leadership frameworks:
E166 - How to Perform Under Extreme Pressure with CEO David Inall
E134 - My biggest failure was needing to be right - Marene Allison, CISO Johnson & Johnson
E62 - How to Deal with Failure, Real Devastating Failure
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About your host, Canberra leadership expert Zoë Routh:
Canberra based leadership expert Zoë Routh on reframing failure into a leadership strength
Zoë Routh is one of Australia’s leading experts on people stuff - the stuff that gets in our way of producing results, and the stuff that lights us up. She works with the growers, makers, builders to make people stuff fun and practical.
Zoë is the author of four books: Composure - How centered leaders make the biggest impact, Moments - Leadership when it matters most, Loyalty - Stop unwanted staff turnover, boost engagement, and build lifelong advocates, and People Stuff - Beyond Personalities: An advanced handbook for leadership. People Stuff was awarded Book of the Year 2020 by the Smart WFM Australian Business Book Awards.
Zoë is also the producer of The Zoë Routh Leadership Podcast.