Failure Résumé
The rejections and misfires that shaped you.
The jobs you did not get, the projects that died, the thing you were certain about and were wrong about. Longer and more serious than the rest of this section, and worth a full fifteen minutes with discussion. Exceptional before a session on risk, innovation or failure tolerance.
Run this when…
The situations it was built for. If none of these is the room you have, it is probably the wrong activity.
- Before a session on risk or innovation
- A senior leadership offsite
- A team that has just had a very public failure
How it runs
Everyone types a short answer and it lands on the big screen as it arrives.
- 1You start a session and put the code on the big screen.
- 2Everyone joins on their phone — no app, no sign-up, just the code.
- 3You drive the pace from the host screen; the room answers as they go.
- 4Ending the session builds the report, with every answer in it.
Running it well
Only the host sees these. Participants never do.
- This needs a senior person to go first and go properly. If the most senior person in the room gives a safe answer, the activity is finished.
- Do not run this in a room where anyone is currently at risk of losing their job.
This one needs a warm room
It asks for real candour. In a group that has already loosened up it is the best thing in the Library; in a cold room it lands somewhere between awkward and harmful. Run an icebreaker or an energiser first.
Run it yourself
Free for thirty days, no card. Add it, share the code, and your room is playing in about fifteen seconds.
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- Players
- 4–80
- Runs for
- 12–20 min
- Where
- Remote or in person
- Big screen
- Required
- Teams
- Individual only
- Best for
- Candour & trust