Successful leaders perceive and handle failure differently.
The word failure, to most people, connotes something that s terminal and lifeless. But leaders embrace error. Most of the people I interviewed looked forward to mistakes because they felt that someone who hadn t made a mistake hadn t been trying hard enough. Television producer Norman Lear told me, Wherever I trip is where the treasure lies. Katherine Graham, publisher of the Washington Post, said, For me, a mistake is simply another way of doing things.