Brilliant Mistakes

This book helps to rehabilitate the right to make mistakes. Indeed, managers must learn to spot and utilize brilliant mistakes as a source of learning and innovation that more than compensates for the cost of the original error.

Paul Schoemaker starts from the principle that it is best to fail quickly and cheaply in order to bounce back all the quicker. He goes as far as to propose a process to make mistakes on purpose to test ideas, combat fears and finally take the risk of succeeding! These deliberate mistakes are suggested as a good way to test erroneous assumptions and discover new options.