Janice is a supervisor in a pharmaceutical company. She is always conscious of not failing for the simple reason that she is afraid that her boss would reprimand her or issue her a memo.
Are you afraid to fail? Many managers, leaders and organizational workers are afraid to fail. They would not risk failing because they want to have a good reputation in their organization. Aside from that they don’t want to be labeled as somebody who failed.
But how would you learn if you’re afraid to fail and how would you achieve success if you are afraid to fail? How would you discover new things and ideas if you are afraid to fail? Many great and useful inventions came into being because of many failures.
Thomas Alva Edison, one of the greatest inventor if the not the greatest inventor the world has ever known had 1,000 unsuccessful attempts before he successfully invented the light bulb.
Steve Jobs the greatest inventor of the 21st century was fired by Apple, the company that he founded. After he was fired he said that he was a failure but Steve Jobs did not give up. He persisted until he again achieved success and was rehired by Apple.
Denis Waitley a motivational speaker has this to say about failure: “Failure should be our teacher, not our undertaker. Failure is delay, not defeat. It is a temporary detour, not a dead end. Failure is something we can avoid only by saying nothing, doing nothing, and being nothing.”
Therefore, in your organizational life failure is an option for the simple reason that you will not achieve success without tasting failure first. You will not learn without failing and you wouldn’t be able to discover things that would help your organization grow without running into failure first.
Thus, failure is an option in your organizational life and in your personal life as well. – Marino J. Dasmarinas
