Fear of Failure

Dear Uncommon Leaders, 

Hope you all had a great weekend and are ready to keep moving ahead towards your year-end goals. ➡️ 🎯

Have an uncommon week!

This Week's Question:

Is fear of failure holding you and your team back from breakthrough innovation?

This Week's Challenge: 

This week, I spent time with a leader who does something uncommon with his team: He asks everyone to share their “mistake of the week."

Why?

Because he wants his team to try more things. To take risks. Toinnovate without fear. And he leads the way—sharing his own mistake first.

It’s a brilliant way to create psychological safety and build a culture of growth.

Too often, we avoid risk because we’re afraid to look bad. But the truth is, the path to better is filled with failed attempts.

Mistakes aren’t the enemy—stagnation is.

The road to average, or even decline, is paved with status quo thinking: doing the same thing shift after shift, day after day.

That rarely leads to better.

Your challenge this week:

Give yourself—and someone on your team—permission to fail. Celebrate effort. Learn from what didn’t work. Try again.

Progress is built on the back of experiments, not perfection.

Let’s go be Uncommon.

This Week's Quote to Ponder:

"The only real mistake is the one from which we learn nothing." - Henry Ford

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Until next week,

LET'S GO BE UNCOMMON!

W. Kevin Harrison

Founder and Executive Coach

Uncommon Influence