I cannot disguise my own disappointment, but I drew a very different conclusion from this business failure, which was to add this experience to the knowledge required for a new start-up.

How many times have you heard that children need to experience failure sometimes because they learn from it. Well, maybe not. Here’s a different view from Alfie Kohn, the author of 12 books ...

In many ways, it’s a heartbreaking piece about the impossibility of escaping loss and despair, but it also offers insight into how we can grow from the firsthand experience of failure.

Failure is a very forceful event that brings your plans and directions crashing down around you like a stack of Tupperware you are trying to reach on a high shelf. When the plastic tsunami stops ...