Let’s Talk About Our Failures

Women at Work

Harvard Business Review

Entrepreneurship, Workplace, Business/management, Business/entrepreneurship, Progress, Resources, Gender, Equality, Business/careers, Women, Hbr, Careers, Management, Business, Harvard, Human

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🗓️ 16 October 2023

⏱️ 46 minutes

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The Amys and their former co-host Sarah Green Carmichael revisit times they majorly messed up, in hopes that you’ll feel better about your experiences with failure. We’re not talking about honest mistakes with simple solutions; we’re talking about larger problems that were difficult and costly to correct. They share what happened, how they recovered, and what they learned.

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0:00.0	Harvard Business School Executive Education develops leaders who make a
0:04.5	difference in the world. In their programs experience the power of fresh
0:09.4	perspectives and connect with the world of new ideas. Learn more at hbs.me slash
0:16.2	work. That's hbs.me slash work. I don't dwell in failure now because I've learned
0:25.7	that every single failure I've ever had in some of them have been dooses and
0:30.8	potential career enders. I've come out of them if nothing else more empathetic
0:38.2	toward others. Yeah well can you tell us a little bit more? I'll tell you about one.
0:42.6	Yeah. You're listening to Women at Work from Harvard Business Review. I'm Amy
0:48.4	Bernstein. I'm Amy Gallo. We're here with our former co-host and friend Sarah
0:54.0	Green Carmichael who's one of the very few people. We feel comfortable enough
0:58.6	revisiting our professional failures with. But we also know she is going to push
1:04.0	us. She's going to test our thinking. Yeah and bring in research findings and build
1:09.0	up to some aha moments. Oh my god no pressure guys. I'm so glad that when you
1:14.2	thought of failure you thought of me. No we just knew that you would bring you
1:19.2	would bring the honesty but you'd also bring the humanity. I'll do my best. So why
1:23.4	are we revisiting the times something's gone wrong or we felt like it had or
1:27.9	someone told us it had failures usually subjective and not one person's fault.
1:34.0	But the ways people tend to treat women too often set us up to fail or leave
1:39.4	us to believe we have only ourselves to blame. There are unrealistic
1:43.2	expectations. There are non-existent or useless feedback. There are under
1:47.6	estimation of our competence causes so much stress and anxiety that we
1:52.4	actually do sometimes underperform. But everyone fails. We don't want you to
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