Failure teaches you more than success if you review it right. Look at what went wrong and what worked, skip the blame, and use both to make better decisions next time. Keep motivation high by acknowledging wins alongside losses.
Failure just to fail, I also don't agree with that. That's not useful. But failure because you're learning, you're growing, it's an experience, that is useful. So always look back and try to analyze where did we go wrong, which was the decision. We should have had the event on Friday, not on Tuesday. We should have booked this MC instead of this band. Which was the decision that took us off the road that we wanted to go on for success? That's how I would say analyze failure, so that you're auditing what happened. Where did we go wrong? It's not about blame. Who made that terrible decision? It's good to know so that they also learn, but it's about how do we move forward? How do we make sure that when we do this again, it's going to be improved, it's going to be better? We're going to have the feedback, we're going to know what went wrong, what worked well. That's another important aspect, because if you only focus on the negative— this went wrong, this went wrong, this went wrong, this could have been better, this wasn't as perfect as it needed to be, this wasn't the target that we needed it to be— then it's kind of depressing and it's not motivational. So you need to look at what went right, what went wrong, where did we go wrong, which are the things that we did right. We planned it in time. We used a good decorator. We were very happy with the colors or with the marketing. You look at what went well, what went wrong, so that the next time you have the perfect combination for success.
