Last week’s Digital Book World conference did a lot to bridge the gap between start-ups from outside the publishing business and innovators within the industry, and one of the more inspiring presentations came from Sourcebooks ceo Dominique Raccah in one of the closing sessions. Her slides on Rethinking Failure: Finding The Opportunities In Our Challenges are available online now. “We have to rethink our whole view on failure,” Raccah said. “It is hurting us.” The essence of her presentation was to suggest that we stop talking about failure when trying new things, and stick to discussing “experiments and results.” (When we […]
