Fail Fast, Succeed Fast
The micro-world that is Silicon Valley has a perception of a breeding ground for new ideas. With a few horrendously bad (like ‘disruption‘), and others being quite good – when put into context. Fail fast! Fail often! This is an idea that has been bandied recently, and out of context, some companies have used it to fail right out of business. The core idea of this concept is to make small, but brave changes to your project and see how the customer responds. Only a small amount of time is invested and if the result is an awful failure there has been little lost. On the other hand, if the results look promising, you could iterate the idea into a successful product. Fail fast – but not for the sake of failing. Fail fast or succeed fast, either way, the idea is to take an idea and act on it. Fail Fast in Your Career For you, the idea of fail fast is just as applicable to your career. However, for performance review reasons, we …