Wednesday, March 17, 2010

Rewarding Failure

At the highest levels of government and corporations, we have accepted a culture of rewarding failure.

That is why perhaps the best job in America is to be a failed CEO. You receive millions in severance and are once more given opportunities to either try it again, or serve on a board of directors where you can again escape accountability for failure.

Ron Ashkenas in an article entitled, A Dangerous Pattern: rewarding failure

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