11. Cultivate Self-Awareness: The Failure Bow
1. Raise hands in the air and bow
2. Grin like a submissive dog
3. Say Thank You I’ve Failed
4. Move on and learn
15. Let’s reframe the F-Word by beginning with
ourselves and our organizations.
This will help improve our nonprofit’s
technology infused programs and lead to
greater impact …..
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The fickle finger of failureSome people point fingers and blame othersOthers are quiet and guess what they are thinking? Let’s go inside that guy’s head …http://www.flickr.com/photos/urthstripe/85094162/sizes/z/
Understand your type, change your stripes, cultivate self-awareness, cultivate political awareness, embrace new habits, influence others
http://www.flickr.com/photos/ruminatrix/2734602916/sizes/o/in/photostream/Funerals in Ghana are an event - up there with weddings in terms of planning, cost, and level of celebration. They can take months, even up to a year, to plan and save for. Obituaries are made into color posters and put up around town. There is music, drumming, dancing and singing as they parade through town. These processions, which occur on Friday afternoons, kick off the 3-day affairs.Momsrising also understands that learning leads to success.Fail: Some experiments bomb. Momrising staff gives themselves permission to kill each other’s projects or tactical ideas that were brilliant at the time but simply don’t work. They do this with humor to remove the failure stigma and call it a “Joyful Funeral” Before they bury the body, they reflect on why it didn’t work. Any staff person can call a Joyful Funeral on anyone else’s idea.Incremental Success Is Not A Failure: They do a lot of experiments and set realistic expectations for success. Many times victories happen in baby steps. They know from experience that many of their campaigns that incorporate social media lead to incremental successes, small wins or small improvements.Soaring Success: Some experiments, actions, or issues will see dramatic results – beyond the organization’s wildest dreams. For example, an interactive educational video ended up garnering over 12 million views and hundreds of comments and lead to thousands of new members signing up or taking action. Kristen says, “That type of success does not happen every day, but we need to try for that kind of success every day. We can only do it if we kill things that don’t work.” They also analyze game changing successes to make sure it can be replicated or wasn’t an accident
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