Failing and Failing Forward with Ashley Good, Founder and CEO of Fail Forward
Description
Ashley Good, CEO and founder of Fail Forward, discusses the importance of embracing failure and creating a healthy relationship with it. She shares her personal journey and the inspiration behind starting Fail Forward.
Takeaways
- Failure is a natural part of life and should be embraced as a learning opportunity.
- Creating a healthy relationship with failure involves destigmatizing it and having open conversations about it.
- Organizations need to shift their mindset and embrace risk and innovation in order to adapt to a rapidly changing world.
- Embrace failure as a learning opportunity and create a culture that allows for open discussions about what didn't work.
- Focus on the small things that you have control over and gradually build the skill of killing low-value work.
- Challenge the bias towards constantly being busy and prioritize the right things over doing things right.
- Develop a healthy relationship with failure by practicing self-compassion and giving yourself grace.
Chapters
(00:00 ) Introduction and Door Number C
(03:00 ) Aliens and Favorite Albums
(06:01 ) The Importance of Failure
(10:11 ) Grocery Bag Indulgences
(13:32 ) Ashley's Journey and the Birth of Fail Forward
(23:30 ) Selling Failure as a Business
(27:26 ) Why Failure is Hard for Us
(31:20 ) The Importance of Learning from Failure
(35:09 ) The Momentum Around Failure
(36:37 ) Saying No to Low-Value Work
(37:39 ) Embracing Failure as a Learning Opportunity
(41:45 ) Killing Projects and the Value of Retrospectives
(50:57 ) Challenges of Work-Life Balance and the Pressure to be Busy
(01:13:31 ) The Importance of Self-Compassion in the Face of Failure
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