My mentor Tony Golsby-Smith always used to say that the one really useful journal that doesn't exist is the Journal of Failed Projects! Nice observation about considering the question of how marginal or significant the benefits are between a successful non-systemic approach and a successful or semi-successful systemic one.
Thanks, Julian. As a PhD student, I once kept a journal of rejections (grants, articles, jobs!), which I found useful to contextualise the successes. As you well know, one of the challenges in government agencies is that people often see the manifestation of risk as a failure. I find talking about the trade-off between the upside and the downside risk helps to reframe that conversation.
My mentor Tony Golsby-Smith always used to say that the one really useful journal that doesn't exist is the Journal of Failed Projects! Nice observation about considering the question of how marginal or significant the benefits are between a successful non-systemic approach and a successful or semi-successful systemic one.
Thanks, Julian. As a PhD student, I once kept a journal of rejections (grants, articles, jobs!), which I found useful to contextualise the successes. As you well know, one of the challenges in government agencies is that people often see the manifestation of risk as a failure. I find talking about the trade-off between the upside and the downside risk helps to reframe that conversation.