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Failing to Learn and Learning to Fail

In Failing to Learn and Learning to Fail (35 page PDF), Mark Cannon and Amy Edmondson look at how successful organizations actively use failure to foster improvement and innovation. This is one of the best analyses of healthy relationships to failure that I've seen in a long time. Their recommendations focus on overcoming both the technical and the social barriers to (1) identifying failure, (2) analyzing failure, and (3) experimentation. Posted: 9/18/06; 11:26:52 PM #

Voicing Our Values: A Survey of the Guiding Principles of the Nonprofit Sector

Voicing Our Values is a project of the Nonprofit Congress. They are conducting A Survey of the Guiding Principles of the Nonprofit Sector, which I encourage you to look at. Their strategy is to try to identify real common values across very large portions of the sector. To that end, the survey is asking you to rank a number of nonprofit roles and concepts, including: Catalyst for Change and Innovation, Commitment to Serve Others, Dedication to the Betterment of the Communities We Serve, Ethics and Integrity, Promotion of Civic Engagement and Volunteerism, Respect for Individuals and Groups, and Sustainers of Hope. Posted: 9/18/06; 11:20:05 PM #