Building Comfort and Success at Failing

Abstract

Failing is an important issue for businesses.  Embracing it moves markets, insures consumer safety, and spares unnecessary investment. Are the aviation and nuclear power industries the only industries to truly embrace it and share learnings to fortify standards and best practices? Can healthcare do the same?

Telehealth and Medicine Today (THMT) is pleased to spotlight the critical necessity to face failure personally and professionally. Do we place too much emphasis on failure avoidance vs. failure recovery? Risk management hallmarks prioritize protecting the “brand” over sharing the experience.

What are the principles for succeeding at failure? What models can we use? How does this impact burnout, workforce turnover, leadership vulnerability, and conducting meaningful retrospectives? Join our distinguished speakers representing health system, research community, and enterprise in this thoughtful and reflective discussion.

THMT would like to continue discussions on this pivotal theme with experts in the field. Reach out to offer your learnings by emailing info@partnersiindigitalhealth.com. Alternatively, submit your research, opinion, or perspective to the journal here.

Resources

• Episode 564: How to Succeed at Failing, Part 4: Extreme Resiliency, Theresa MacPhail, Stevens Institute of Technology, https://freakonomics.com/podcast/how-to-succeed-at-failing-part-4-extreme-resiliency/
• Illuminating ‘the ugly side of science’: fresh incentives for reporting negative results, https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-024-01389-7
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• Management Lessons from Mayo Clinic: Inside One of the World's Most Admired Service Organizations
• Haru Urara: Japan’s Lovable Loser
• Trust in Radical Truth and Radical Transparency, Ray Dalio
• What Is Psychological Safety?, HBR
• Museum of Failure
• The Daily Stoic
• Humble Inquiry, Edgar Shien
• The Power of Regret, Daniel Pink
• Watch Bad Surgeon: Love Under the Knife, Netflix
• The Bizarre Story of ‘Vasa,’ the Ship That Keeps On Giving https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/bizarre-story-vasa-ship-keeps-giving-180964328/
• The History of Fika: Swedish Coffee Break, https://food52.com/blog/9499-the-history-of-fika-swedish-coffee-break