There is no progress without change but not all change is progress..

In aviation, the black box records the flight so that in the event of a disaster we can thoroughly examine what went wrong.

Traditionally we punish errors.

Punitive actions lead to blaming and covering up valuable information that could be used to learn and generate solutions that would prevent more mistakes from happening.

Highly effective organisations, teams, and individuals accept mistakes as normal and as an essential component of growth. But that is easier said than done.

Our relationship with failure can be too powerful.

To learn from mistakes we need the right kind of system and the right mindset. The system has to objectively track errors and utilise them to spur progress. The cultural or individual mindset must accept mistakes so they are not reframed or suppressed but treated as a leaning curve.

What sort of mindset could empower you to see mistakes as helpful instead of flaws to regret?

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