Ben Sloot

I was listening to an episode from the Bookworm Podcast discussing Where Good Ideas Come From by Stephen Johnson¹ and in a passing comment they highlighted an old adage – you learn more from losing, a slight variation on the lessons taught by failure.

However, we shouldn’t let winning get in the way of learning. After action reviews are as important following successes, to consolidate gains and highlight repeatable successes. We too quickly celebrate² and move on without a deliberate reflection and capture³ of best practices from the team.

Thank you for coming to my painfully obvious Ted talk.

Speaking of podcasts⁴, I’m painfully behind⁵ on the weekly shows I follow. I added some sports specific podcasts because October is second best sporting events time of year with football, playoff baseball, the NBA starting up and Formula 1 racing every other week.⁶ I don’t know why, but I have an incredibly hard time deleting a show, especially after I started listening to it.⁷

I suppose that’s a story for a different day.

1. Guaranteeing that I never read this book but I love the summaries  ↩
2. Pizza party  ↩
3. Pics or it didn’t happen  ↩
4. See line 1 ↩
5. hours  ↩
6. Three weeks in July rate number 1 due to the spandex clad Freds riding through the French country side.  ↩
7. Listen to completion  ↩