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The unexpected benefit of celebrating failure

Taking on risky, audacious projects require us to first challenge the hardest parts - facing the possible failure points with enthusiastic skepticism, and making the visions more concrete.

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Feb 10, 2016 • 16 min read
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Summary

"Great dreams aren't just visions," says Astro Teller, "They're visions coupled to strategies for making them real." The head of X (formerly Google X), Teller takes us inside the "moonshot factory," as it's called, where his team seeks to solve the world's biggest problems through experimental projects like balloon-powered Internet and wind turbines that sail through the air. Find out X's secret to creating an organization where people feel comfortable working on big, risky projects and exploring audacious ideas.

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