Failing Forward
Zack Ray
Ms. Paulson
TAG 9
28 May 2013
Failing Forward Failing forward is a very important thing to know how to do for personal growth and leadership. Every great leader and successful person has learned how to fail forward. To Fail forward there are fifteen steps. I believe that these steps are fairly accurate, but I’m not really an expert on leadership myself I say these steps are accurate because for each step he gave specific examples of how certain people used one of these steps and eventually becomes successful. For example, in chapter two, Maxwell talks about Truett Cathy, the founder of Chick-fil-A. First Truett and his brother Ben opened a restaurant called the Dwarf Grill. After becoming a successful business, tragic losses came to Truett. His two brothers both died in a plane crash. Then after Truett had opened a second location, it caught fire and he had little insurance, so he could not reopen. After, Truett, the lone business manager had to go into surgery. Then while stuck in a hospital bed for months, he comes up with the idea for the Chick-fil-A sandwich. Now Truett Cathy operates more than nine hundred restaurants across the country. During multiple times during his success story, Truett Cathy could have given up and quit. But every failure helps lead to success, as long as you learn from that failure. This chapter was about the different ways to see failure. I think it is well exemplified through this story because if Truett had not failed, he would not have ever created a billion dollar company in Chick-fil-A. Another example in this book is about monkeys, at the beginning of chapter five. In an experiment, monkeys were placed in a room that had a tall pole in the center. Suspended from the top of that pole was a bunch of bananas. If one of the monkeys were to climb up the pole, they were doused with cold water. Each of the four monkeys in the room made the attempt to get the bananas. The researchers replaced one
Ms. Paulson
TAG 9
28 May 2013
Failing Forward Failing forward is a very important thing to know how to do for personal growth and leadership. Every great leader and successful person has learned how to fail forward. To Fail forward there are fifteen steps. I believe that these steps are fairly accurate, but I’m not really an expert on leadership myself I say these steps are accurate because for each step he gave specific examples of how certain people used one of these steps and eventually becomes successful. For example, in chapter two, Maxwell talks about Truett Cathy, the founder of Chick-fil-A. First Truett and his brother Ben opened a restaurant called the Dwarf Grill. After becoming a successful business, tragic losses came to Truett. His two brothers both died in a plane crash. Then after Truett had opened a second location, it caught fire and he had little insurance, so he could not reopen. After, Truett, the lone business manager had to go into surgery. Then while stuck in a hospital bed for months, he comes up with the idea for the Chick-fil-A sandwich. Now Truett Cathy operates more than nine hundred restaurants across the country. During multiple times during his success story, Truett Cathy could have given up and quit. But every failure helps lead to success, as long as you learn from that failure. This chapter was about the different ways to see failure. I think it is well exemplified through this story because if Truett had not failed, he would not have ever created a billion dollar company in Chick-fil-A. Another example in this book is about monkeys, at the beginning of chapter five. In an experiment, monkeys were placed in a room that had a tall pole in the center. Suspended from the top of that pole was a bunch of bananas. If one of the monkeys were to climb up the pole, they were doused with cold water. Each of the four monkeys in the room made the attempt to get the bananas. The researchers replaced one