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Scenario

How teams recover creative risk-taking after experiencing significant failure together

Our startup team used to be fearless about pivoting and trying wild experiments, but after our last big failure we've all become incredibly cautious and data-obsessed in a way that's killing our creativity. None of us wants to be the one who suggests something that might blow up again, so we're stuck in this loop of incremental improvements that feel meaningless.

More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

Collective trauma around failure can transform a group's relationship with risk from generative boldness into paralyzing hypervigilance.

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Nas
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Worth thinking about

“Where Are You with Risk-taking — philosophy and psychology?”

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