From " This Idea Must Die: Scientific Theories That Are Blocking Progress " by John Brockman, a collection of answers from famous ...

Tony-award winning actress Idina Menzel performed her megahit "Let It Go" as part of the New York Times Square celebration on New ...

One theme you might have noticed on this site - mistakes can lead to new discoveries, and limitations often confer advantages as much as dis...

This is from the autobiography of Four Seasons founder Isadore Sharp, " Four Seasons: The Story of a Business Philosophy ." Four S...

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A little nugget from Andrew Garda's article in Sports on Earth on the New England Patriots - Denver Broncos matchup on Sunday night. Th...

“I have never regretted even my mistakes. They all added to my understanding of other human beings, and I came out in the end a more toleran...

This is a personal story of a trivial mistake and its aftermath. I wanted a cellphone; actually, an Android phone that ran on a GSM network ...

Ben Greenman of the New Yorker shared a cool rejection letter that U2 received in 1979: It's from the Robert Stigwood Organisation, ...

This story is from Tom Eisenmann, professor at Harvard Business School, and is part of a longer post called " Failing Better ." ...

This is an excerpt from the new book " Leading the Life You Want: Skills for Integrating Work and Life ," by Stewart Friedman of...

A tiny, beautiful mistake story from the New York Times "Vocations" column. The teller is Lucas Evans, a driver for Uber. The int...

Here's a great mistake story from Jim Koch, founder of the Boston Beer Company, brewer of Sam Adams beer. The interview with Koch is fr...

In a 1998 interview in Wired Magazine , Stewart Brand asked the famed physicist his thoughts on failure: You can't possibly get a goo...

From the New York Times article " A Second Career, Happily in the Weeds ," about retirees who built new careers in agriculture: ...

From, " My Biggest Failure? Failing to Recognize Failure ," by Robert J. Moore in the New York Times You're the Boss blog: ...

There are a number of reasons I've written less on the blog this year. One is that, after more than 5 years of thinking about mistakes a...

Cynthia Kurtz is one of my favorite people and biggest inspirations. Her deep understanding of the wisdom of people's ordinary stories h...

We've advocated over and over again for groups involved in experiments to release all data and results from those experiments - even t...

From an article by John Markoff published on May 15 : As a research chemist at an IBM laboratory, Jeannette M. Garcia spends her days mixi...

From " The Best Leaders Are Humble Leaders ," by Jeanine Prime and Elizabeth Salib on the HBR Blog Network, based on their researc...

Another story by S.D. Shibulal, CEO of Infosys , from Adam Bryant's Corner Office series. Early on, I thought I could remember every...

A story from Thomas Redman, PhD , featured on the HBR Blog Network: I trained as a statistician and first joined Bell Labs in the network ...

From Adam Bryant's Corner Office series. Bryant's new book is called Quick and Nimble: Lessons from Leading CEOs on How to Create a ...

From Adam Bryant's interview with Intuit CEO Brad Smith , in the New York Times Corner Office column. Bryant's latest book is, ...