The important thing, Lardon said, is to do as Faldo did and take lessons from failure.
None of these lessons from failure were all that useful for the next great Gulf disaster the BP Deepwater Horizon oil well blowout but lessons from the oil containment success likely would have been.
Such meetups, we conclude, have virtually no effect on sparking and sustaining entrepreneur ecosystems like Silicon Valley, which are complex, evolve over time, and require dedicated commitment from many different sources governments, academic institutions, successful entrepreneurs, willing investors, and a culture that welcomes risk-taking, and accepts and extracts lessons from failure.
We have even seen some organizations create formal structures for sharing lessons from failures with all employees.
We glean lessons from failures of democracy in inter-war Europe, Venezuela, Russia, and other cases, and we consider the possibility of democratic erosion in contemporary Europe and the United States.
But lessons from failures were judged as extremely important by more respondents than lessons from success.
We have seen with our clients that leaders who are afraid to acknowledge when they don't have an answer, and who try to mask concerns or mistakes are far less effective than those who hire to meet gaps in their expertise, own any errors in judgment and create constructive lessons from failures.
Further, people don't share enough about the lessons learned from failure -- or even the lessons learned from success for that matter.
American officials contend that the Iraqi intelligence service learned a lesson from its failure to engage in anti-American terrorist activities during the first gulf war.
The party has obviously not learned the lesson from the failure of the Socialist Pasok government, which was forced to resign and hand over to a coalition that includes members of Pasok, New Democracy and the far-right LAOS party.
