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Creating permission for productive failure
To reduce the fear of failure that suppresses experimentation. Explicitly establish that thoughtful experiments that do not succeed are valued, not punished. Distinguish: • Productive failure: trying something reasonable that did not work, with learning as result •… An ongoing team scaffold (team culture), run continuous, not as a one-off session.
Practical
- Time
- 5-90 min
- Group
- 3–20 · small-group
- Settings
- in-person, online
- Materials
- None beyond ordinary meeting/work settings
- Mechanisms
- life-embedding, creative-expression
- Change scope
- state → skill · recurring-practice (Continuous)
Instructions
- Where
- idg.thomasjordan.se/idg-team-scaffolds-webapp.html — Thomas Jordan's IDG Resource Library, open
- Availability
- Open online — published at the link, free to read
Source link checked 29 Aug 2026 — unchanged since we recorded it on 28 Aug 2026
This directory describes and points home; the instructions stay with the people who made them.
Origin
Thomas Jordan & Claude [AI] (IDG for Teams handbook — team scaffold) — IDG practice (idg.thomasjordan.se)
In this directory via Thomas Jordan's IDG Resource Library
Team leader role (Jordan): Model taking thoughtful risks and being open about what you learn when they don't work out. Never punish genuine attempts to innovate that fail. Publicly recognize people who tried something new.
status: checked · added 2026-08-25