You can’t both explain away failure and learn from it.

Growing your business means more activity, which means more chances for failure. It’s inevitable.

Those failures will come with the temptation to blame them on the growth.

To say, ‘That’s just what happens in fast-growing companies.’

But each of those failures is an opportunity for the people involved and the organization to learn.

To build better systems and processes and training.

Explaining away failure before you’ve had a chance to learn from it increases the likelihood that you will make it again. Along with other mistakes.

If you want to continue to grow – a person, a leader, or a business – choose to learn from your failures. Not explain them away.