Your management needs to learn that failures lead to success. Thomas
Edison tried 10,000 times to make a light bulb. When asked about his
failures he replied saying he now knows 10,000 ways not to make a light
bulb.
One of the things you have to make management understand is how you've
learned from the failures. Document the failures and identify the
learnings. If you're having to manage management in the way you describe,
and they aren't aware of this process, your company could be heading for
rough times.
Guaranteed success is not a way to grow a company. You have to look at
what your competition is doing, and do something else! That's where the
experimentation comes in! The first people making things, or doing things
in a new way are the ones who get the biggest payoffs. The challenge is
finding the right things to get the bigger payoffs.
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Gary Scherling Gscherl@fed.ism.ca
Ottawa, Canada FYI (214) 606-2000
Helping people help themselves
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