Success in leadership and life can come down to just two factors: curiosity and failure. Bestselling authors Jim Kouzes and Barry Posner explain how curiosity and failure will ultimately improve your leadership and set you and your organization on a path toward success.

1. 2 KEYS
TO SUCCESS
CURIOSITY AND FAILURE
Jim Kouzes & Barry Posner

2. When you are curious
and start asking questions about
things outside of your regular affairs,
what you learn often becomes
the catalyst for change.

3. Knowing what to ask
and how to ask it are critical
skills for leaders and learners.
Asking questions—even
challenging ones—can lead
to positive outcomes.

4. And when you ask a lot of
questions, you’re going to come up
with a long list of things to try, and
it’s likely you won’t know how to
do many of them.

5. You will stumble, make
mistakes, have setbacks,
and experience failures.

6. Leadership is not about playing it
safe, and learning is not about doing
what you already know how to do.

7. But with a learning mindset, you
can act like a scientist.
Make your life a laboratory
and conduct as many
experiments as possible.

8. Try something new.
Fail. Learn. Try again.

9. History won’t judge you
harshly for your failures if
you learn from them.
But it will be unkind if you
fail to try.

10. Those who have left the
most lasting legacies are those
who made mistakes, failed
but tried again.
That final try makes all
the difference.

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The real key is to learn from
your experiences and be willing
to repeat the process.
Learn more about the five fundamentals of becoming a better leader.