Navigating through failure

Failure is an opportunity to learn and really step up for your team.

March 19, 2024 • Reading Time: 1 minute

Navigating through failure is an inevitable part of the journey for any engineering leader. Maybe you missed the mark or maybe your team did; to be honest, it really doesn’t matter where the failure occurred. No one individual will ever have a perfect track record.

So if you know you’re going to mess up at some point, what should you do? Your energy should of course be partially spent on preventing mistakes before they occur, but where I see leaders thrive or fall apart is how they react in the face of failure. It's not just about the setbacks themselves, but how you rebound from them that can set leaders apart. Let’s talk through a few things I recommend doing.

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