I really don’t want to rely on other people’s content too much on this blog, but this video really stuck a chord inside of me.

There really is two types of failure. One is eluded to in this video by Honda Performance Engineer John Kessler:

“Failure is a byproduct of pushing the envelope….When you fail, it’s not nessarilly looked at as a bad thing as long as you learn from it, and make something positive out of it.”

It’s such an important point, but buried deep in the video (check around 2:56) Push the envelope, never make the same mistake twice.

The other is when you don’t do what Mr. Kessler suggests, and make the same mistakes over and over. You can see this at all levels of business. That’s a bad failure. 

It’s the company that only wants to protect market share. It’s the Vice president only looking towards the next quarterly report. It’s the department just trying to get through the year. It’s the individual rushing to clear the assignments. 

If the proper time is not given to any of these, you have failure.