Nothing Fails Like Success
Nothing Fails Like Success is a psychological safety opener exercise that helps participants build trust while keeping the stakes low.
How to run it
- Please read this whole section and choose 5+ of the questions listed at the end to engage your participants
- Pass out the following content to your designated People Science teams and see what they
- Giving ample time and ideally using visuals to enable each team to answer the questions
- Never draw the boundaries of an important problem too narrowly
- cWhom the gods would destroy they send forty years of success.' --Peter Drucker cLong periods of unparalleled success do not make one fit to play in new environments
- This does not mean that STbs do not have an important role to play in the problem-solving
- How should we react to a major crisis, especially if we are, or are perceived to be, at fault?
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Prompts to use +
Please read this whole section and choose 5+ of the questions listed at the end to engage your participants
Pass out the following content to your designated People Science teams and see what they
Giving ample time and ideally using visuals to enable each team to answer the questions
Never draw the boundaries of an important problem too narrowly
cWhom the gods would destroy they send forty years of success.' --Peter Drucker cLong periods of unparalleled success do not make one fit to play in new environments
This does not mean that STbs do not have an important role to play in the problem-solving
Run this with your AI assistant +
Works with Claude, ChatGPT, Gemini, or your own local model: paste this prompt and your AI will co-facilitate this exercise with you.
Adapt this exercise for my exact room. Exercise: Nothing Fails Like Success. Readiness: Publishable Draft. Core moves: Please read this whole section and choose 5+ of the questions listed at the end to engage your participants; Pass out the following content to your designated People Science teams and see what they; Giving ample time and ideally using visuals to enable each team to answer the questions; Never draw the boundaries of an important problem too narrowly. Return a concise facilitator script with timing, wording, safety notes, and remote/in-person adjustments.
Origin unverified
- Where we observed it: The strongest current observations come from Relationship Makers Handbook; aggregators are listed as additional observations, not origin proof. (1 source observed, including Relationship Makers Handbook.)
- What that means: we track where an exercise has been observed in public sources. We do not claim to know who created it, or how popular it is.
- No efficacy claims: appearing in this library is not a claim that the exercise is proven effective. Facilitator judgment and context decide whether it works for a given room.
- Corrections: if you have evidence of an earlier or more accurate source, read our methodology and trust boundary and tell us.