How to Motivate Failure

1. Trish fails at Task A.
2. Manager Bill yells.
3. Manager Bill assigns Trish menial work.

What results?

Manager Bill destroys Trish's potential to rock.

• Productivity drains.
• Profits plummet.
• People cry.

How do you optimize Trish after failure?

Simply, do this:

• Give Trish another chance to prove herself.

If you punish failure, people become more focused on failure -- instead of rocking the actual work.

They're thinking:

1. "Dude! What if I fail again?"
2. "I cannot fail! I will not fail!"
3. "I can't make one more mistake!"

Result: they fail.

The Focus Beyond

Instead, when people know failure ain't-no-thing-but-a-chicken-wing-on-a-string, they start focusing on the kick-assing part.

• Full focus: away from failure.
• Full focus: on success.

Win for you, her, and the world.

You ain't no failure! Hooray!

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