All failure articles

Article The Demise of an Innovation Team: 5 Warning Signs
February 4, 2022
The warning signs “did not appear all at once,” writes a former innovation team member in the US. Rather, “it was a slow and a gradual shift in priorities and resources over time.” Here are her recommendations for avoiding that same fate.
Article Why Well-Run Companies Continue to Fail
September 13, 2021 | By Alex Slawsby and Dan Ostrower
In the 24 years since Clay Christensen’s book The Innovator’s Dilemma was published, Christensen and many others uncovered a long list of reasons for why well-run companies can flounder. Despite these insights, leading companies now lose their leadership positions more quickly than ever before. The key question we must now...
Article Don’t Call It a Failure (Use this Word Instead)
February 11, 2021
It’s time to stop talking about failures, and start talking about “nearlings,” says the Belgian author and keynote speaker Cyriel Kortleven. He explains what a nearling is in a short video.