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Courage to try. Resilience to fail. Providing consulting services to help people and organizations fail intelligently since 2011.

Toronto
Joined January 2011
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"You get further in life by avoiding repeated stupidity than you do by striving for maximum intelligence." —Charlie Munger
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Learn to Improve Your Relationship with Failure with advice from @FailForward on the newest #NonprofitRadio: tony.ma/NonprofitRadio583
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Last week, we published the latest #HowToBuildCommunity podcast episode with @FailForward's @AGoodFailure. 🎧 Fail Forward is the world's first 'Failure Consultancy' - helping organisations learn and grow from their failures. 🌱 Here's a thread of what we learned. 👇👇👇
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🎧 NEW EPISODE! 🎧 We all do it, but we don't like to talk about it. In this new episode of the #HowToBuildCommunity show, the founder of @FailForward tells us what becomes possible when we talk openly about #failure. soundcloud.com/user-47188921…
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Don’t miss our #WCPUB “Horror Stories” Halloween-themed meetup tomorrow at 4PM ET. We have storytellers like @whyisjake, @amitgupta, and others, moderated by @agoodfailure from @FailForward! Register here now and don’t miss it! alleyinteractive.zoom.us/mee…
🎧 New #podcast episode coming this week! 🎧 We'll be learning how to "fail intelligently" with the founder of @FailForward. Previous episodes: bit.ly/2LcYBHp
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The 7 phases of feedback grief: Denial: That's not true! Justification: I did what I had to do! Anger: You're an idiot! Shame: I'm an idiot Guilt: My behavior was a little unreasonable Acceptance: Sometimes I have the self-control of a toddler Growth: I'll do better next time
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"We can always choose to look at what we can learn and grow more wise out of that experience. So I try to embrace these opportunities, where I may fail." — Ashley Good, founder of the failure consultancy @FailForward, tonight at 8/11pm with @spaikin | Producer: @TrishKozicka
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When you’re in the throes of failure, it never feels like something you want to embrace. Ashley Good, founder and CEO of @FailForward — the world’s first failure consultancy — tells @spaikin why you should. Tonight at 8/11pm | Producer: @TrishKozicka
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Thought you’d find this approach interesting @FailForward
Lots of people make predictions, but not many go back and score them. They should, it’s more intellectually honest, and it’s very satisfying to state exactly what you got wrong, own it, and move on. Here’s some of the things we said on EVs in January, 2019.
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Join me on this episode of My Perfect Failure where I’m Joined by @FailForward Founder & CEO Ashley Good. @AGoodFailure. buzzsprout.com/319835/256056…
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If you believe that as a #WASH professional you need to be accountable and transparent in your work, sign The Nakuru Accord here: leeds.onlinesurveys.ac.uk/na… #WASHTwitter
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Ashley Good from @FailForward inspiring us to share our failures to become successful in our communities. #communitysolutions #FCCSummit2019
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What quadrant are you currently in? How can you and your team move into the Learning Zone (or at least aim to get there more often than not)? @learningfromfailure @FailForward @ConservOptimism @SCB_SSWG
How do you encourage your employees to perform to the best of their abilities? 🔸Instill a culture of #psychologicalsafety 🔸Encourage risk-takers 🔸Accept peers for being or thinking different 🔸Value contributions and opinions Source: Amy Edmondson #humanresources
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It was an honor to talk with @ShreyaDasgupta @mongabay and share our research. Thanks for spreading the word about the importance of #learningfromfailure. @MorenaMills @JossLyonsWhite @AndrewTKnight @FailForward news.mongabay.com/2019/10/fa…
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We talked with @BRACworld, the NGO that is breaking the taboo and speaking up about failure in the development sector bit.ly/2tyLjsQ Now, we are asking you to share the lessons you learned by failing:
“Business as usual” will fail to serve Canadians in a meaningful way. Check out Bill Young's op-ed for @ipoliticsca. ipolitics.ca/2018/11/14/fear…
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A big day for @soapboxhq. SoapBox for iOS: The most beautiful app for one-on-one meetings producthunt.com/posts/soapbo… via @i_am_brennan
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Keep an out for the fearless organization - new book coming out in November
Building a psychologically safe workplace: @AmyCEdmondson at TEDxHGSE" Video at TEDxTalks ow.ly/UC3Rc
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All #FailSafe keynotes have been announced! 📖 Stories from the globe-trotting @MuseumofFailure 💬 @paulshoeSVP on talking about failure and the bounce-back 💡 @FailForward on intelligent failure & smart risk-taking Early bird registration now open! buff.ly/2L8mLy4
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