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Reaching for Innovation, One Failure at a Time

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Reaching for Innovation, One Failure at a Time

Business Innovation Factory,

5 mins. de lectura
5 ideas fundamentales
Audio y Texto

¿De qué se trata?

Encouraging failure is the best way to allow innovation to flourish.

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Editorial Rating

7

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Recommendation

Richard Satava’s path to becoming a surgeon was filled with dead ends and detours. From this experience he gleaned a valuable insight: Failure is an essential part of the innovation process. In fact, according to Satava, encouraging failure is the best way to allow innovation to flourish. Alas, Satava mistimes his presentation and rushes through his closing remarks, which touch on innovations in medicine and their associated ethical issues. Nevertheless, getAbstract recommends his engaging talk to acrophobics who are afraid of falling as they climb to new heights.

Summary

Richard Satava always knew he wanted to be a surgeon, but he faced challenging obstacles and detours along the way. As a premed at Johns Hopkins University, he loaded his class schedule with science classes. But Satava’s college counselor advised him to take an arts major, as he had the rest of his life to study science. So Satava studied a master degree in architecture and failed. Yet he pursued his goal. Before a medical school in Philadelphia accepted him, 12 had turned him down. Just three months before his graduation, the Army drafted him. Following several assignments, he wound up working on robotics for ...

About the Speaker

Richard Satava is a professor in the department of surgery at the University of Washington.

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