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In a recent article I discussed failure and learning from mistakes. Matthew Syed’s seminal book Black Box Thinking explores how the best organisations and people embrace the concept of failure. Did you know that Sir James Dyson spent more than 15 years and created over 5,000 prototypes before his Dyson DC01 bagfree, ‘cyclone technology’ design vacuum cleaner proved successful commercially? The harder you practice the more successful you get. Th...