Amazon exec kept failed product press releases on his wall

And some of them were successes, but some of them, actually more than half of them, were failures, and I still kept them on the wall because that's demonstration that we it's fine to fail.

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share with your audience that in my office at Amazon, I had press releases of products which I launched or my team launched. And some of them were successes, but some of them, actually more than half of them, were failures, and I still kept them on the wall because that's demonstration that we it's fine to fail. And still, I'm alive. I'm working more importantly. I'm kind of promoted with a higher scope of products and projects. So I think that's also true, the cultural aspect of that.

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Former Amazon executive Alex Dang explains how he displayed press releases of both successful and failed products in his office to normalize failure. He shares how this mindset helped him advance his career, with more than half of his launches being failures yet still receiving promotions and expanded responsibilities.

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This is a powerful personal anecdote that demonstrates how to practically implement a healthy failure culture in corporate environments.

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