Accept Failure
We accept failure, take learnings, and wipe the slate clean so we can move on without blame
Accept Failure vs traditional thinking
Two different assumptions about how change should work.
Lean Change
Sometimes things will work out the way you intend, sometimes they won't. It's the experience that matters so don't concentrate on the "F" word so much.
Traditional Change Management
You must fail in order to learn and organizations must create a 'safe to fail' environment.
This is one of the philosophies of Experimentation over Executing Change tasks. We've never been a fan of the "F" word because as the rhetoric around "you must fail to learn" grew increasingly popular after the introduction of The Lean Startup in 2011, it almost became an excuse to not try or not to be thoughtful.
Experimentation, in the context of change, is hard. Don't use 'experiment' as an excuse to just 'try things out and see how it goes'.
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