Every day, more people are stepping forward with ideas and insights to promote a healthy relationship with failure. Below is a collection of some of our favourite resources.
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*Argyris, Chris (1991). Teaching Smart People How to Learn

Brown, Tim (2009). Change By Design: How Design Thinking Transforms Organizations and Inspires Innovation

Barsh, Joanna, Marla M. Capozzi, and Jonathan Davidson (2008). Leadership and Innovation

Cannon, Mark D. and Amy C. Edmondson (2005). Failing to Learn and Learning to Fail (Intelligently): How Great Organizations Put Failure to Work to Innovate and Improve. Long Range Planning, Vol.38(3), pp. 299-319

Catalano, Allison S., Kent Redford, Richard Margoluis, and Andrew T. Knight (2017). Black swans, cognition, and the power of learning from failure

Crane, Monique (2016). Resilience in the Workplace: Lessons for Managers and Staff

Curran, Thomas (2023). Perfectionists Need to Embrace Failure

*Danner, John and Mark Coopersmith (2015). The Other "F" Word: How Smart Leaders, Teams, and Entrepreneurs Put Failure to Work

Darling, Marilyn, Charles Parry, and Joseph Moore (2005). Learning in the Thick of It

*Duhigg, Charles (2016). What Google Learned From Its Quest to Build the Perfect Team

*Duke, Annie (2022). Quit: The Power of Knowing When to Walk Away

*Dweck, Carol S. (2006). Mindset: The New Psychology of Success

Edmondson, Amy C. (2018). The Fearless Organization: Creating Psychological Safety in the Workplace for Learning, Innovation, and Growth

*Edmondson, Amy C. (2011). Strategies for Learning from Failure

Edmondson, Amy (2023). The Right Kind of Wrong: Why Learning to Fail Can Teach Us to Thrive

Farson, Richard and Ralph Keyes (2002). Whoever Makes the Most Mistakes Wins: The Paradox of Innovation

*Fishbach, Ayelet (2019). Line of Inquiry: Ayelet Fishback on Learning from Failure

*Frei, Frances and Morriss, Anne (2020). Begin with Trust

*Furstenthal, Laura, Alex Morris, and Erik Roth (2022). Fear Factor: Overcoming Human Barriers to Innovation

Freakonomics Radio (2014). Failure Is Your Friend

Gladwell, Malcolm (2013). The Gift of Doubt

Garvin, David, Edmondson, Amy and Gino, Francesca (2008).  Is Yours a Learning Organization?

Gino, Francesca and Staats, Bradley (2015). Why Organizations Don't Learn

*Grange, Dr. Pippa (2020). Fear Less: How to Win at Life Without Losing Yourself

*Heen, Sheila (2015). How to use others' feedback to learn and grow

*Heffernan, Margaret (2012). Dare to Disagree

*Hidden Brain (2023). Learning from your mistakes

Ito, Joi (2014). Want to innovate? Become a "now-ist"

Kegan, Robert and Lisa Lahey (2001). The real reason people won't change

Kotter, John (2012). Accelerate

*Lewis, Sarah (2014). The Rise: Creativity, the Gift of Failure, and the Search for Mastery

Li, Charlie (2011). The Art of Admitting Failure

Martin, Claire (2014). Wearing Your Failures on Your Sleeve

McGrath, Rita (2010). Are You Squandering Your Intelligent Failures

McGrath, Rita (2011). Failing by Design

McRaney, David (2013). Survivorship Bias

Nobel, Carmen (2014). Reflecting on Work Improves Job Performance

*Professional AF Podcast (2020). Why we should treat business failure like a broken heart - with Guy Winch

Pfeffer, Jeffrey and Robert Sutton (1999). The Knowing-Doing Gap

Rose, Raphael (2091). From stress to resilience

*Rudy, Bruce (2022). Build learning into Your Employees' Workflow

*Scott, Kim (2017). Radical Candor

Senge, Peter (2006). The Fifth Discipline: The Art & Practice of the Learning Organization

Starbuck, William H. and Philippe Baumard (2005). Learning from Failures: Why it May Not Happen. Long Range Planning, Vol. 38(3), pp. 281-298

*Stone, Douglas, Bruce Patton, and Sheila Heen (1999). Difficult Conversations: How to discuss what matters most

Sundheim, Doug (2015). Debriefing: A Simple Tool to Help Your Team Tackle Tough Problems

*Syed, Matthew (2015). Black Box Thinking: The surprising truth about success and why some people never learn from their mistakes

*Tavris, Carol and Elliot Aronson (2008). Mistakes Were Made (But Not by Me): Why We Justify Foolish Beliefs, Bad Decisions, and Hurtful Acts

Thibodeaux, Wanda (2019). How to Get Workers Past Their To-Do Lists and Give Them More Time to Innovate

Wang, Dashun (2019). The Tipping Point Between Failure and Success

Westley, Frances, Brenda Zimmerman, and Michael Quinn Patton (2006). Getting To Maybe

*Fail Forward favourites!