{"product_id":"the-other-f-word-isbn-9781119017660","title":"The Other \"F\" Word","description":"\u003cb\u003eLeverage the power of failure in your organization\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003eNobody wants to fail, but failure is a fact of life. Most of us treat it as a regrettable, even shameful, event best overlooked. In truth, failure can be a game-changing strategic resource that can help you and your organization achieve the greater success you crave.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Other \"F\" Word\u003c\/i\u003e shows how successful leaders and teams are putting failure to work every day - to re-engage employees, spark innovation and accelerate growth. Authors Danner and Coopersmith - with their rare blend of senior-level executive experience, global advising, teaching acumen and cross-discipline perspective - share these valuable new practices, and show how they can improve results across your organization. Based on exclusive interviews with prominent leaders and insightful examples from their own in-depth work, the book features a practical seven-stage framework to liberate failure as a force to advance your leadership agenda. After all, everyone creates and confronts failure on a daily basis. Why not use it to your advantage? \u003ci\u003eThe Other \"F\" Word\u003c\/i\u003e shows you how to:\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cul\u003e \u003cli\u003eStart an open, productive conversation about failure across your organization\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eReduce the fear of failure that stifles initiative, creativity and engagement\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eAnticipate, prepare for and respond to failure, so you can leverage it when it happens\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eHarness failure as a catalyst to drive innovation, improve performance and strengthen culture\u003c\/li\u003e \u003c\/ul\u003e \u003cp\u003eFailure's like gravity – pervasive and powerful. Whether you're a leader or team member of a startup, a growing business, or an established enterprise, failure is today's lesson for tomorrow. Let \u003ci\u003eThe Other \"F\" Word\u003c\/i\u003e show you how to apply this lesson and take your company where it needs to go.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eForeword by Jeffrey Bewkes, Chairman and CEO, Time Warner xv\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003ePreface: A Book About a Topic Nobody Wants to Talk About xvii\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eChapter 1 What’s in It for Me? Your Personal Guided Book Tour 1\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart I What: The Facts and Facets of Failure 11\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eChapter 2 The Other F Word: “Failure” Is Such a Loaded Word 13\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eChapter 3 The Gravity of Failure and Failure’s Gravity 21\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eChapter 4 Defining Failure: Mistakes and Unwelcome Outcomes That Matter 27\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eChapter 5 Fear and Memory: Failure’s Force Multipliers 37\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart II When and Where: How Failure Appears at Different Organizational Phases 47\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eChapter 6 Start-Ups: Launching Your Venture in the Land of Failure 49\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eYour Role: Passionate Convincer\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eChapter 7 Keep-Ups: Surviving and Thriving After You Meet Payroll 67\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eYour Role: Confident Juggler\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eChapter 8 Grown-Ups: Dodging the Oxymoron of “Big Company Agility” 81\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eYour Role: Trusted Colleague\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart III How: Using the Failure Value Cycle to Advance Your Organization 97\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eChapter 9 The Failure Value Cycle: Seven Stages Where You Can Leverage or Flunk Failure 99\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eChapter 10 Stage One—Respect: Acknowledge the Gravity of Failure 103\u003cbr\u003e Your Role: Straight Talker\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eChapter 11 Stage Two—Rehearse: It’s Not Just About Fire Drills 121\u003cbr\u003e Your Role: Tenacious Coach\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eChapter 12 Stage Three—Recognize: Pick Up the Signals of Failure Earlier 131\u003cbr\u003e Your Role: Watchful Monitor\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eChapter 13 Stage Four—React: Deal with It! 143\u003cbr\u003e Your Role: Team Captain\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eChapter 14 Stage Five—Reflect: Turn Failure from a Regret to a Resource 153\u003cbr\u003e Your Role: Inquisitive Student\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eChapter 15 Stage Six—Rebound: Retake the Initiative 165\u003cb\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003c\/b\u003eYour Role: Field General\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eChapter 16 Stage Seven—Remember: Embed Failure Savvy in Your Culture 173\u003cbr\u003e Your Role: Proud Storyteller\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eChapter 17 The Failure Value Report Card: A Practical Tool to Help You Put Failure to Work 183\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart IV Now: Put the Other F Word to Work 193\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eChapter 18 Creating the Failure-Savvy Organization 195\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eChapter 19 Escape the Gravity of Failure: Leading the Fallible Organization 209\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eAfterword by China Gorman, CEO, Great Place to Work Institute 213\u003cbr\u003e Appendix—Our Classrooms: Putting Failure to Work in Creating Value 215\u003cbr\u003e Acknowledgments 225\u003cbr\u003e About the Authors 227\u003cbr\u003e Notes 229\u003cbr\u003e Index 249\u003cbr\u003e Presenting The Other “F” Word Keynote 259\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eJOHN DANNER\u003c\/b\u003e is a management consultant, professor, and entrepreneur. He advises global enterprises and emerging ventures, and anchors international executive education programs. He teaches innovation, entrepreneurship, strategy, and leadership at the University of California Berkeley and Princeton University; and conceived the idea for TED U[niversity]. A frequent keynote speaker at conferences on five continents, he and his wife live in Berkeley, CA and New York City.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eVisit www.JohnDanner.com\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eMARK COOPERSMITH\u003c\/b\u003e is a corporate executive, entrepreneur, strategic advisor, and professor. A Senior Fellow at UC Berkeley’s Haas School of Business, he teaches innovation, entrepreneurship, and leadership to students and executives from around the world. He has built and run global businesses for Sony and Newell Rubbermaid, has launched successful Silicon Valley startups, and speaks often to audiences internationally. He and his family live in Tiburon, CA. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eVisit www.MarkCoopersmith.com\u003c\/b\u003e   \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eEveryone wants success. Organizations want greater innovation, stronger growth, and deeper employee engagement. If you’re an executive, entrepreneur or team member, you know how hard that is to do. The good news is you’re sitting on a largely untapped strategic resource that can help, but most organizations and managers prefer not to talk about it. It’s \u003ci\u003efailure,\u003c\/i\u003e the “Other F Word”—and it’s one asset you and your colleagues create and pay for every day. You might as well put it to work.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eHow? In this provocative book, the authors share failure-savvy insights from exclusive interviews with leaders of large multinationals, small and mid-size businesses, and startup ventures. Danner and Coopersmith add their unique interdisciplinary background and perspectives as executives, entrepreneurs, board members, and advisors to global enterprises and growing companies. As professors at the University of California Berkeley and Princeton, they also contribute their original research and classroom experience with students and executives from around the world. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eTheir practical 7-stage Failure Value Cycle helps you avoid failure in the first place, recognize it earlier, deal with it better when it happens (which it will), and leverage it to drive stronger performance. Danner and Coopersmith can help you unlock the potential of failure by respecting its inevitability, taking it out of the realm of taboo, talking about it openly, learning from it, and applying its lessons. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFailure’s like gravity—a pervasive, powerful fact of life. You may want to defy it, but you can’t deny it. 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