In an article by Betty Liu, host and editor-at-large at Bloomberg Markets, she talks to John Chen, CEO of BlackBerry, about why he seeks to hire people who have failed before.
In life, we are taught to succeed, from acing at Little League to scoring the best career. Failure is something to be avoided like the plague. Popular culture portrays failures as losers with low self-esteem and zero work ethic--which could not be further from the truth. Read the article at Inc.com