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Freedom to Fail (#95)

Robert Glazer
Oct 27, 2017
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We all need room to make mistakes. The goal should be to learn from them and move forward, without repeating them.

An example of restricting that freedom is Volkswagen’s diesel engine debacle. According to many company executives, former CEO, Martin Winterkorn, was demanding, authoritarian and abhorred failure; he also fostered a climate of fear.

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