Comments on: Innovation Is a 10,000 Foot Free Fall http://blogs.cisco.com/socialmedia/innovation-is-a-10000-foot-free-fall/ Sun, 26 May 2013 02:27:30 +0000 hourly 1 By: Deborah Strickland http://blogs.cisco.com/socialmedia/innovation-is-a-10000-foot-free-fall/#comment-697385 Deborah Strickland Thu, 13 Dec 2012 00:12:34 +0000 http://blogs.cisco.com/?p=95310#comment-697385 Thank you for the comment Barry. It’s surprising how sometimes the things we fear, are often the most gratifying (after the fact). Depending on the type of work you do, failure can mean different things. For most of us, our work doesn’t involve saving lives, so failure is more subjective. With marketing or social media programs, the willingness to experiment, try different venues, different methods of communicating and creating great stories people want to hear (not just preaching products) is what we should be able to do freely. Having a death grip on the status quo because it’s how it’s always been (even if it no longer works), is what many teams get caught up in. These are the ones who need to innovate, but who resist it the most.

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]]> By: David Barry http://blogs.cisco.com/socialmedia/innovation-is-a-10000-foot-free-fall/#comment-697382 David Barry Wed, 12 Dec 2012 20:52:36 +0000 http://blogs.cisco.com/?p=95310#comment-697382 This is very thought provoking and honest. Failure can take many forms, either in business or a career journey or even a side passion you decide to pursue. Failure often hurts, but it’s an amazing teacher. It forces you to really assess what occurred, what worked well, and where you went wrong. If looked at intelligently and honestly, I have found some failures to be life changing — and for the better.

I’m intrigued by FailFare and will look into that.

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