This week, This Week in WorkLife with Adam Grant explores how failure functions as a feature rather than a bug in professional growth. Astro Teller, CEO of X Development, discusses the deliberate cultivation of productive failure and what it takes to build organizations where people can experiment without fear of career-ending consequences.
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