Larry Allen: Learning to tolerate little failures to prevent big ones

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Larry Allen: Learning to tolerate little failures to prevent big ones

There's failure and then there's failure. Big and small. One way to prevent the big ones is to develop tolerance for the small ones along the way. That's in par...

Tom Temin@tteminWFED

February 5, 2016 10:48 am

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Larry Allen, principal, Allen Federal Business Partners

There's failure and then there's failure. Big and small. One way to prevent the big ones is to develop tolerance for the small ones along the way. That's in part the idea behind a Pentagon drive to get more commercial innovation into its so-called third offset strategy. For what this means to contractors, Larry Allen, principal at Allen Federal Business Partners spoke to Federal Drive with Tom Temin about the topic.