Over the weekend, author Jim Rasenberger was interviewed by NPR's Noah Adams on his book The Brilliant Disaster. The new book deals with Bay of Pigs debacle 50 years ago when anti-Castro revolutionaries failed in their invasion of their homeland. Rasenberger believes that the most important legacy of the Bay of Pigs may be to remember Murphy's Law: "Things are going to go wrong." President Kennedy was proud that his administration was composed of “the best and the brightest.” Rasenberger suggests, “It would be wise for presidents to have a few people in their administration more acquainted with things not going well." Perhaps this is something to think about when we pull together a team. We always want to “get the right people on the bus” (as Jim Collins says), but the right people may include some who have tried, failed, and learned from their experiences. We all will fail but the important thing is to learn from our failures. ...
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