Addresses Quote by Paul J. H. Schoemaker

The most common source of mistakes in management decisions is the emphasis on finding the right answer rather than the right question.

— Peter Drucker

The best single question for testing an organization's character is: What happens when people make mistakes?

— Robert I. Sutton

We need mistakes to know what/how not to do.

— Tasneem Hameed

Mistakes, obviously, show us what needs improving. Without mistakes, how would we know what we had to work on?

— Peter McWilliams

“We rarely make mistakes in analysis. We usually make them in our assumptions.”

— Victor Sheymov

The measure of a man cannot be whether he ever makes mistakes, because he will make mistakes. It's what he does in response to…

— Wil Shipley

People and companies make mistakes. I guarantee we'll make a mistake next quarter. So what? Businesses make mistakes. Hopefully smaller, and fewer.

— Jamie Dimon

“Businesses make lots of mistakes, so part of the point of business is to analyze them, to correct them, to have some sense of…

— Patricia Crisafulli

Everybody who goes through the business will make mistakes. The big question is how big will the mistakes be? How fast will they learn…

— Fred DeLuca

“If you really want to be right (or at least improve the odds of being right), you have to start by acknowledging your fallibility,…

— Kathryn Schulz

“Decision makers find that asking what-would-it-take questions gives them more, better, and different Macro Tactics from which to choose. As a result, they put…

— David Goldsmith

The mistakes that people will make are of much less importance than the mistake that management makes if it tells them exactly what to…

— William L. McKnight