First of all, it puts down failure as something inferior. Failure is a natural step to success. Calling it a no-brainer devalues its incredibly valuable teachings. I have a chance at being successful in my current start-up in part because of the issues I had in my previous one.
Secondly, it over-simplifies the definition of success. Is wandering the oppressive halls of a Microsoft really success? Sure, for Bill Gates, Microsoft is a success. But it didn't become a success through the oppressiveness of its halls - the most valuable game-changing moves happened long before it was a huge mega-corporation, when it was busy building things like MS DOS and Windows and setting up all the dominos to fall in the right place.
It's an interesting thought overall, but I don't really see the value of applying it so directly to business or careers.
My understanding of the post is that one single mistake might be enough to ruin your business or career. To grow and succeed, you have to get everything right. Or at least the majority of things. And this gets more and more complex.
I totally agree with you, failures can be very valuable, as long as you learn from them.
First of all, it puts down failure as something inferior. Failure is a natural step to success. Calling it a no-brainer devalues its incredibly valuable teachings. I have a chance at being successful in my current start-up in part because of the issues I had in my previous one.
Secondly, it over-simplifies the definition of success. Is wandering the oppressive halls of a Microsoft really success? Sure, for Bill Gates, Microsoft is a success. But it didn't become a success through the oppressiveness of its halls - the most valuable game-changing moves happened long before it was a huge mega-corporation, when it was busy building things like MS DOS and Windows and setting up all the dominos to fall in the right place.
It's an interesting thought overall, but I don't really see the value of applying it so directly to business or careers.