Burnison, author of The Leadership Journey, uses the slogan "Fail fast; learn faster." What does this slogan mean to you? What type of "product development" is it characterizing?
It is applicable to any product development with a steep learning curve. Particularly where one has to learn and apply many new concepts within a short period of time. Doctoral students, other early career researchers or those transitioning into senior management often find that this is how they learn quickly;- by putting their ideas forward and learning quickly from what doesn't work.
Developing a culture of intelligent experimentation and failure analysis is no longer an option. Individuals, groups, and organizations must create, innovate, and reflect to generate the radical solutions they need to tackle challenges in markets, industries, organizations, geographies, intellectual disciplines, and generations. To accomplish this, they must learn to learn and learn to unlearn before, during, and after. It is harder but more beneficial to learn before and during than supposedly after. Burnison's message is that success is a process and failure on the way is an opportunity. Successful individuals, groups, and organizations fail well.
In terms of producing educational content, this to me implies the necessity to create a learning environment in which a learner is allowed - even supposed - to fail in order to learn from his mistakes. Learning by doing is a process which involves both failed and successful approaches. The key here is to make the learner aware of the actions and decisions leading to failure, and the ones leading to success. Ideally, the learner can then utilize his awareness to come up with strategies for successful (= effective) learning. As editor, I will try to incorporate this approach by developing content incoorporating both cognitive and meta-cognitive goals for effective learning, see https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/fail-flop-julia-ryberg/ and
https://www.slideshare.net/slideshow/embed_code/key/6eAio2QOq3sv7O.
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