Following the example of Microsoft, it is one of the companies that invests the most in Research and Development, in fact, a short time ago, Bill Gates announced that he was going to give up the task of executive management of the company to focus on the development of new products. The results that Microsoft has in the market are due, in part, to the focus placed on R&D. The results are obvious.
Champions can be found in these companies. Champions are those Employees who perform in R&D (or another area) and persevere, persevere and persevere in order to make their ideas successful in the market. They are the most coveted by companies, and at the same time, the most conflictive due to the conviction of the success that their ideas will have. Success for them comes from proving to others that their ideas were correct. Call them extreme narcissists, call them cocky, self-centered, in short call them whatever you want, but let them work and create.
Thomas Edison, the inventor of the light bulb, before succeeding, failed thousands of times in his search, to such an extent that in the newspapers they even published "Edison's Nonsense." It is said that once a reporter asked him if he did not feel frustration, to which the edition replied: "I do not even feel discouraged, because every erroneous and discarded attempt is another step forward."
This anecdote turns out to be clear evidence about the importance of failures in people, but just as it is also important to fail and fail continuously, it is also important to persist and persist.
Persistence is directly related to the faith and conviction that is put into the task to be carried out, which may be given in a new product, in costs, administrative tasks, in sales work or any other action that is undertaken in the company. organization
I have not found a clearer example than this to demonstrate the importance of human resources involved in R&D.
In reality, failure is equal to dismissal, since failures and mistakes are not tolerated. Many times the rapidity of the markets and the maelstrom that is experienced in the globalized village, the company cannot afford the luxury of allowing the failure of human resources because this implies a substantial and expensive delay or loss.
The key is precisely in that speed imposed by the market. It is vital to experiment quickly to obtain information quickly, but if that information we obtained gives us a negative result, we must abandon the project much more quickly.
Speed in these times means quick action and quick departure so you don't waste time, energy and money. Do you understand me or am I going too fast?
There is a lot of similarity with card games, more precisely solitaire, one needs to turn over cards to continue playing and the more cards back one runs the risk of making mistakes, but even so, more information has to be able to win the game or to leave him.
As the project progresses it is more difficult to abandon it since the money that is invested in each successive step is higher and the personal commitment is increasingly high, so perhaps companies should take the experiments as a game of solitaire and have the coldness of a player to abandon it when necessary.
Failure in R&D is not negative from any point of view since in the worst case scenario, what was bought is information and now the company has knowledge that the competition does not have, and this gives it a notable substantial advantage in the market..
This has a validity quota since, would you feel more innovative if failures were allowed in your current company and even rewarded them? To what extent will your work contribute to the success of the company?
If I think about it, I think that companies lose a lot of talent and creativity on the part of people by not offering a quiet and comfortable work environment so that each human resource can afford to fail and persist until they can get the job done. deserved success that belongs to the company for trying.
We all want to stand out and be brilliant in what we do, this is an inherent quality of every human being, those who achieve it are people who at some point had dreams like you and were lucky enough to fail (yes, lucky), but added high persistence.
If failures are almost necessary to achieve an innovative product or an idea that becomes brilliant for the company, why don't organizations create the necessary conditions so that each human resource feels free to fail as many times as necessary to achieve success in your project that will eventually become money for the company?
The people who obtain these answers from the organizations in which the attitudes of commitment and will work are unconditional or do you not know of any case of an employee who takes work home or stays working until after hours without charging a single additional penny?
This type of employee is the one that companies need, the most resonant characteristic in them is their commitment to the task and they hold their mind to the letter, they are tied to their mission and they do not care about the bombings by the management, much less the oppositions that arise in your environment. To top it off, the type of personality these types of people possess is that they ARE FANATIC of their beliefs.
Companies must encourage and create environments where these fans can thrive. In reality I believe that companies should not only encourage and create, but rather seed them if they want to be successful in the market. Most likely, the reader has noticed that I am a FAN of these FANS.
Tolerating the failure of employees is vital to achieve the success and innovation of a company regardless of the activity to which it is dedicated.
Business success is not an event, it is a process in which logical stages cannot be skipped and in all the stages that we go through until we achieve it, we will always find logical failures.
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