We learn more from failures, we fail far more than we succeed and yet we talk about our failures far less than our successes and this is even more true in business. But it doesn't have to be that way and it shouldn't. The best organizations (and I would argue the most successful people) learn from their mistakes and in an organization that means talking about them not trying to hide them and assigning fault.

An accountant takes a whitepaper with three good ideas and turns it into a full-length book . . .