Failure Stories:

A while back, I browsed through the web-site of a leading IT company, and found a bold-faced column titled "Success Stories", and that made my reflect on why there was not any mention of "Failure Stories". Ahem, and that makes me think that publishing a company's failure-stories may be a very sell able marketing gimmick. However, the necessary and sufficient criterion is that the company should be successful. It is human nature to appreciate failures of hitherto successful people, and the logic is simple: a person learns from his failures, and eventually succeeds. If a person continues to be a failure, it is assumed that he hasn't learned from his failures, and hence his failures have no importance. Man, who says failures don't sell?!

The motivation behind my typing this essay is to make my dear reader realize that most (if not all) corporates do not inspire failures. Now, by failures, I definitely am not alluding to project failures. The idea is to tell employee to think, try out new things, implement their ideas, and if in the process, they fail, then it is all fair.

I think each one of us is capable of creating new stuff, generating new ideas, but most often, we do not take our ideas to the next level of sharing them with people and implementing them into prototypes. Most often, it is because of lack of confidence we have in ourselves. The project managers need to play a role here. We all should be told that failure is just not a bad word, it is good, at least it tells you that someone did something, but didn't get what he set out for. There is nothing called "failure", it is all perspective. If you change the perspective, the failed work became a success by teaching the person what next.

Happy Failing!