6 Reasons for International Development Failures – with Examples

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International aid programs can sometimes fail, even when designed with noble intentions, leading to negligible impact or even adverse outcomes.…

Top 10 Reasons Why Businesses Will Fail in 2025 – With Examples

A decade of Fail Festivals revealed multiple reasons why businesses fail every year.  Failure reasons that are also present in…

Why BRAC Publishes a Failure Report Not a Learning Report

The Loudest question that we at BRAC are asked when working on our annual Failure Report is always: “Why not…

6 Steps to Reduce Failure Risk at Your Company

Failure is normal. Failure happens. We may think of only one kind of failure - catastrophic failure that gets everyone…

Honest Feedback Reduces Philanthropic Failure Rates

Fail Festivals are a celebration of failure as a mark of leadership and innovation in pushing the boundaries of what…

7 Steps for Intelligent Failure to Reduce Risk and Increase Success

Failure is a mark of leadership, innovation, and risk-taking in pushing the boundaries of what is possible and profitable in…

5 Ways to Talk About Failure at Your Work

I recently led a Fail Festival for Grantmakers In Aging's annual conference. It was wonderful to participate in-person again after…

Learning from Failure Virtually – Online via Zoom

For many years, I've focused on in-person Fail Festival sessions. Either as big events onto themselves, or as the keynote…

Small Business Owners Learning from Fail Festival SBLC 2021

It's time for a Fail Festival – a celebration of failure as a mark of leadership and innovation in pushing…

Bob Thornton

Bob Thornton, partner at O'Donnell Impact Windows & Storm Protection, presenting at Small Business Leadership Conference