Failure Need Not Be Catastrophic

“I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work.” – Thomas A. Edison

Last week I looked at some of the common reasons that leaders in the health and human service field fail to act (see Is ‘Fear Of Failure’ Your CEO’s Leadership Challenge?). From the article, I had lots of commentary from readers and colleagues – many of them referring to the current state of political uncertainties that could affect the field and the challenges these uncertainties present to decisionmaking.

My colleague, OPEN MINDS Senior Associate Ken Carr made a couple of related and . . .