Her most painful failure—not being voted for tenure the first time around (at a previous university)—turned out to be a gift. The failure was an interruption, forcing reflection.

Failure, if taken rightly, can be used as a positive force in our lives -- but we should also try to minimize its impact and learn how to avoid it in the first place, instead of just correcting ...

Those in the failure group were 6.1% more likely to publish a high-impact paper than those in the success group. The next question is, how can failure lead to career success?

Failure, today, is not allowed to die its natural death. It must be rehabilitated, repackaged, and recycled—turned into grit, grace, or growth. It is no longer a terminus but a threshold. The ...

Failure also gives you true confidence rather than false confidence. Successes that are easy often leave lots of room for failure—because the success has made you feel that nothing could go wrong.

Failure presents invaluable learning and growth opportunities, which is why the tech world finds the concept so buzzworthy. But to extract such learnings, we need to analyze not only the failed ...

The Failure of Affirmative Action For the Black poor, a world without affirmative action is just the world as it is—no different than before.

In the last decade, efforts to reframe failure have pushed it to the surface of popular culture. People like Richard Branson, Elon Musk, and Oprah Winfrey are all hawking failure as the secret to ...

THE most pronounced failure has occurred in the chosen field of Communist tactics — economic development — and particularly in that sector of it which bears most directly on the welfare of the ...

In Part 1 of the series Total Failure, a former NASA official recalls the disastrous mission of the space shuttle Columbia in 2003 and how the accident changed his life forever.

Failure to launch: it may be a 2006 Matthew McConaughey movie given one star by Roger Ebert, but more often, it’s the growing phenomenon of young adults not making the transition to adulthood.