Lead Like It Matters by Craig Groeschel

Author:Craig Groeschel
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Zondervan
Published: 2022-05-16T00:00:00+00:00

Learning to Fail Gracefully

Stuntmen and stuntwomen are paid to fail. They fall and get beat up and get blown up—gracefully. We need to learn to fail gracefully.

Because I’ve failed often, I’ve learned some principles about how to fail. Here are a few you might find helpful:

Call your new ideas experiments. Sometimes leaders make promises they might not be able to deliver on. Instead of making absolute statements about what’s coming, it helps to package new ventures as experiments. This gives leaders some wiggle room to make minor tweaks or major adjustments. If the experiment doesn’t work, we still come away with something valuable, something we’ve learned and can explain to those concerned.

Create a culture that allows for failure. Explain to your team that failure is a part of success. Talk openly about your failures and what you’ve learned. Tell them that, as a ministry, you’re going to err on the side of being aggressive and failing occasionally, rather than being passive and succeeding at being average. For instance, I once had an assistant who was overly cautious. I challenged her to make three aggressive failures in the next quarter. I told her that instead of my “pressing the pedal” to get her to accelerate, I’d prefer she make me “use the brakes” occasionally.

We will always make mistakes. I’d rather we make aggressive ones than passive ones. I think the greatest regrets we have are not failures but risks we didn’t take. We need to help our team know that mistakes are part of progress and that failure is allowed.

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