Why is experimenting so essential to leadership?
Thomas Edison said, “I failed my way to success.” It took over five thousand experiments to develop the filament for the electric bulb. “Every one of these experiments taught me something,” explained Edison, and that’s precisely the mantra of leaders. Leaders don’t see failures and mistakes as the end of the world, but simply another opportunity to learn and know something that they didn’t know before and, often, had no way of knowing in advance.
