Does your organization appreciate the things you’ve learned? Do you applaud colleagues who do their job well? All too often, organizations live day by day, from one crisis to another, and they forget to to take note of the good things that happened. And it’s not just about applauding the good things. In work and in life, we sometimes succeed and we sometimes fail. What’s important is that whether we have success or failure, we learn from the experiment. This is where most performance management misses the boat. That’s why we created the Celebration Grid to celebrate learning! By drawing a Celebration Grid and asking two important questions, we can look to implant good practices in the future of our business. Celebration Grids are a visual way to present the outcome of an experiment, whether that experiment succeeded or failed. It shows us where we can celebrate the good practices, which result from a positive outcome and where we learned something from our failures. Learn more: https://management30.com/improve-everything/success-failure/ https://management30.com/practice/celebration-grids/

1. Success
and
Failure
© Happy Melly One BV
(Original Management 3.0 Foundation Workshop Material)

2. Improve Everything:
People, teams, and
organizations need to
improve continuously
to defer failure for as
long as possible.

3. How do we optimize learning?
Should we celebrate failure?
I suggested that maybe we should have a
big bell in the office, so that we could ring it
whenever there was something to
celebrate.
source: #Workout, “Yay! Questions & Celebration Grids” http://m30.me/workout

4. The Celebration Grid compares behaviors with outcomes.
MISTAKES EXPERIMENTS PRACTICES
LEARNING
SUCCESS
FAILURE

5. Good practices usually lead to success. That’s why we have them.
MISTAKES EXPERIMENTS PRACTICES
LEARNING
SUCCESS
FAILURE

6. Though sometimes, good practices can fail.
MISTAKES EXPERIMENTS PRACTICES
LEARNING
SUCCESS
FAILURE

7. We avoid mistakes (bad practices) because they often lead to failure.
MISTAKES EXPERIMENTS PRACTICES
LEARNING
SUCCESS
FAILURE

8. Though sometimes, mistakes surprise us with unexpected success.
MISTAKES EXPERIMENTS PRACTICES
LEARNING
SUCCESS
FAILURE

9. We run experiments when we don’t know if we will succeed.
MISTAKES EXPERIMENTS PRACTICES
LEARNING
SUCCESS
FAILURE

10. With all experiments, there is a good chance of failing.
MISTAKES EXPERIMENTS PRACTICES
LEARNING
SUCCESS
FAILURE

11. Learning is optimal when we have a 50/50 chance of succeeding.
MISTAKES EXPERIMENTS PRACTICES
LEARNING
SUCCESS
FAILURE

12. But many people don’t
like the idea of failing.
One of the scariest snakes in the room is
the fear of failure, which manifests itself
in such ways as fear of being judged, fear
of getting started, fear of the unknown.
- David & Tom Kelley, Creative Confidence

13. Learn more about when learning is most successful
at a Management 3.0 Workshop!
www.management30.com/events/

14. We don’t learn anything when we just repeat good practices.
MISTAKES EXPERIMENTS PRACTICES
LEARNING
SUCCESS
FAILURE

15. We also don’t learn anything when we repeat the same mistakes.
MISTAKES EXPERIMENTS PRACTICES
LEARNING
SUCCESS
FAILURE

16. We do learn when good practices fail, though it doesn’t happen often.
MISTAKES EXPERIMENTS PRACTICES
LEARNING
SUCCESS
FAILURE

17. And we learn when mistakes are successful, which is also rare.
MISTAKES EXPERIMENTS PRACTICES
LEARNING
SUCCESS
FAILURE

18. “Celebrate failure” includes failure from mistakes. That makes no sense.
MISTAKES EXPERIMENTS PRACTICES
LEARNING
SUCCESS
FAILURE

19. “Celebrate success” makes more sense, but this ignores learning.
MISTAKES EXPERIMENTS PRACTICES
LEARNING
SUCCESS
FAILURE

20. We know that learning is optimal when we run experiments.
MISTAKES EXPERIMENTS PRACTICES
LEARNING
SUCCESS
FAILURE

21. It’s not about the
first-mover advantage;
It’s about the
fast-learner advantage.
The only way to win is to learn
faster than anyone else.
- Eric Ries, The Lean Startup

22. Networks are great at running experiments and exploring opportunities.
MISTAKES EXPERIMENTS PRACTICES
LEARNING
SUCCESS
FAILURE

23. Hierarchies are good at repeating practices and exploiting successes.
MISTAKES EXPERIMENTS PRACTICES
LEARNING
SUCCESS
FAILURE

24. Healthy organizations make use of both networks and hierarchies.
MISTAKES EXPERIMENTS PRACTICES
LEARNING
SUCCESS
FAILURE

25. They use networks for creativity, innovation and effectivity.
MISTAKES EXPERIMENTS PRACTICES
LEARNING
SUCCESS
FAILURE

26. They use hierarchies for quality, predictability and efficiency.
MISTAKES EXPERIMENTS PRACTICES
LEARNING
SUCCESS
FAILURE

27. It is important to celebrate successes, with a focus on good practices.
MISTAKES EXPERIMENTS PRACTICES
LEARNING
SUCCESS
FAILURE

28. And it is important to celebrate learning, in safe environments.
MISTAKES EXPERIMENTS PRACTICES
LEARNING
SUCCESS
FAILURE

29. Create a safe-to-fail environment.
The three essential steps are: to try new
things, in the expectation that some will fail; to
make failure survivable, because it will be
common; and to make sure that you know
when you’ve failed.
- Tim Harford, Adapt

30. Run more experiments, faster, and cheaper.
What you want to do as a company is
maximize the number of experiments you
can do per unit of time.
- Jeff Bezos, Harvard Business Review

31. Which behaviors were a
success? (mistakes,
experiments, practices)
Which behaviors were a
failure? (mistakes,
experiments, practices)
Which experiments could we
try next time?
Celebration Grids
A visual exercise, useful in retrospectives and workshops

32. Management 3.0 is not another framework, it’s a mindset, combined
with an ever-changing collecXon of games, tools, and pracXces to help
any worker manage the organizaXon. It’s a way of looking at work
systems.
Management 3.0 examines how to analyze that system to come up with
the right soluXons for beYer leadership across organizaXons.
Management 3.0 FoundaXon Workshops are all about principles and
pracXces. Combining the best of classical thinking with a fresh approach
and new insights. All embedded in a social context and in the networked
businesses we work in today.

33. Book your Management 3.0 Workshop today and improve your
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