| Why
do folks have so much trouble getting the product out the
door? Well, it can be risky. And most of us fear making a
mistake. Plow a  crooked
furrow and you risk looking foolish.
You also
risk criticism. [Listen—can hear your mother's voice
here? "Your cousin John's furrows are always straight.
Why can't you plow like John?]
If you
were taught early that making a mistake was bad—and
if you haven't outgrown that childish lesson—now is
a good time to put your hand to the plow. What's the worst
thing that can happen?
You fail!
Failing
to try is worse than actual failure. If you take a risk and
fail—let's call it making a mistake—you'd be in
pretty good company.
Babe Ruth
set a record for hitting home runs. He also broke the Major
Leagure record for strikeouts. Madame Currie was terribly
disappointed in the results of her experiment—an element
that came to be called radium. And Thomas Edison, who created
prototypes of many of the advanced products we use today was
very acquainted with failure. Edison once responded to a critic
who questioned the results of his latest work thus: "Results!
Why man, I have gotten a lot of results. I know a million
things that won't work!"
They say
that Bill Gates likes to hire people who have made mistakes.
"It shows that they take risks," he says, "The
way people deal with things that go wrong is an indicator
of how they deal with change." | 
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the engineers and get the product out the door." This
sentiment—expensively framed—used to hang in the
president's office in a hot-shot computer company that specialized
in "fast math." The Prez was the only non-technical
executive in the place. He'd gotten to the corner office by
a sales route, and the only thing he knew about parallel array
processor architecture was that his chief competitor didn't
have it.
by standing there.
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