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#30: Fear of failure

vaughn2nd January 2021 at 2:52pm

This issue is about how visceral and emotional fear of failure is the unacknowledged obstacle preventing individuals, teams, and organizations from being innovative—despite the continuing obsession with rational, cognition-based processes for making teams and organizations better at coming up with new ideas. Getting over fear of failure can free individuals and organizations to be adaptable, resilient, and innovative. This is a working version of a piece for the Yak Collective.

You can find it here: #30: Fear of failure