“Fear of failure must never be a reason not to try something.”
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My four years in the Marine Corps left me with an indelible understanding of the value of leadership skills.
Leadership is simply the ability of an individual to coalesce the efforts of other individuals toward achieving common goals. It boils down to looking after your people and ensuring that, from top to bottom, everyone feels part of the team.
Everyone should be commended for allowing people to make disasters, to make failures - you've just got to be sure that it's a magnificent failure and that, by creating a magnificent failure, you plant the seed.
The exposed nature of life in the public square affects leaders' attitudes toward risk - and failure.