‘If you haven’t failed, you’re not trying hard enough….’
It seems like a no-brainer. Learning from failure contributes to high-quality implementation, strategic innovation and improved governance and transparency. Yet despite the fact that all funders admit this, it is a principle that often doesn’t translate into practice. Many foundations, their staff and their boards still find it difficult to have conversations about failure.
In this event, livestreamed from AVPN’s conference in Bali, Indonesia, we’ll be examining the role of failure and asking our panelists:
- What has been the Asian experience of this?
- Which funders and social investors have engaged with these questions?
- How do they adapt their strategy and put resources behind learning to profit from mistakes?
- What kind of cultural changes are necessary for them to become genuine learning organisations?
- What are some of the examples of best practice in learning from failures and how can these be adapted by other organisations?