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Failure Post-Mortem

TAIU

What happened, what was decided, and what was only visible afterwards.

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Right Kind of Wrong

Amy Edmondson

Separates preventable failure, complex failure and genuinely exploratory failure, and shows why each warrants a different response. The categories are cleaner in hindsight than in the moment, which is worth remembering while reading.

Learning Through Failure: The Strategy of Small Losses

Sim Sitkin

Argues that small, survivable failures teach far more than large ones. Written about organisations, but the point about scale and recoverability holds for anybody deciding what to try next.

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