With failure comes learning

Sam Lakha

March 28, 2011

For those able to find the silver lining in every dark cloud, misadventures offer wonderful opportunity to learn and improve. Former Procter & Gamble CEI AG Lafley insisted: “I think of my failures as a gift.” And then claimed Darwin would agree: “It’s Darwin’s theory,” Lafley explains in the latest edition of the Harvard Business Review. “When you stop learning, you stop developing and you stop growing.”

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