But not all mistakes need an apology. Without mistakes we don’t learn.
What do successful mistakes look like? Or sound like?
Mistakes are essential to invention, experimentation, creativity and innovation.
Without mistakes – many mistakes – there’s no change or development, no success.
Leaders know this. But it doesn’t make their mistakes any easy to handle.
Mistakes are inherent to improvisation.
The jazz-leader knows this. And they come to terms with making mistakes regularly and in public.
It was when I found out I could make mistakes that I knew I was onto something
Ornette Coleman
How do they do this?
Here’s one perspective:
The mistake will sound like a masterpiece based upon what I do immediately after
Joe Sample
Now there’s a thought.