Yo, today's QOD is when you fail, celebrate.

Here we go.

Welcome back to the QOD today show I'm your host Sean Kraxton,

Sean Kraxton.com. It's throwback Thursday and we're turning back that clock all the way to episode number 13 14, our feature speaker Carla Harris.

Today Carla is going to encourage you to go out there and fail.

Not just fail, but fail fast to go out there and take risk and just explore the unknown and the uncertainty because that's how you're going to become successful.

And when you fail, be sure to do this one thing. Be sure to celebrate Carla Harris. She's coming up.

Now, as I turn my attention to powerful, impactful, influential leadership is all around the letters in the word leader.

The L stands for leverage powerful, impactful, influential leaders understand that there is no monopoly on intelligence.

You won't always have the best idea. You won't always have the right idea.

But somebody in your environment has the intellect, the experience and or the relationships to help the team successfully prostitute any endeavor.

And if you are a powerful, impactful, influential leader, your job is to create an environment where those who are working with you notice I said with you and not for you, those who are working with you want to contribute there out of the box ideas.

Without those ideas, you cannot innovate without being able to innovate. You will not compete in this market. It is all around innovation.

So it is your job to create an environment where people are clear that there is no retribution for making a mistake because if there is a big retribution for making a mistake, they will not take that risk.

And you need people with a mindset of being comfortable taking risks. That's the only way you're going to be able to innovate.

In fact, they must be comfortable failing. You need to create an environment as a leader that is okay to fail.

Take a page out of the technology industry's book and just fail fast. And oh, by the way, when you fail, celebrate.

So you know what? Nice job, Roger. Way to go Renee. If we had not taken that risk, we would not have the following information. So it didn't work.

But here's what we learned. Let's leverage that. Leverage that into the next opportunity. Let's leverage that into the next try.

So it's all about creating leverage in your team. If all roads lead back to you, then by definition your success as a leader is going to be capped.

Why? Because you're one man. You're one woman. So the trick is to leverage other people's intellect, leverage other people's experience,

and leverage other people's relationships in order to have the team successfully prosecute and compete internally and externally.

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