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Re: Another Culture Change

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Originally Posted by squirrel View Post
Your performance speaks for itself.
We apparently have vastly different interpretations of 'failure.' You're basing failure on our team's final product on the field. By that measure, yes we typically succeed.

What most people don't see are all the failures that lead up to ultimate success. Our secret isn't that we don't fail. The secret is that we typically fail early and often enough in the season so we have time to to recover and fix the failures. Most of the great teams operate this way. The other secret, as others have stated, is that we don't settle for bad solutions. If one of our designs is a failure, we improve it until it works.