A lecture for organisations · 90 minutes · On site / Online
Mastering Failure: Learn from Setbacks
A mistake gets buried, and a quarter later a different team makes exactly the same one. Failure only teaches when someone is willing to say out loud what actually happened, and most rooms have learned that saying it costs them. This lecture is about the mechanics of that, how to run a review that produces facts instead of blame, how to tell a failure worth repeating from one that should end a project, and how a manager should react the first time someone reports a failed experiment. Alex Slutsker, a business consultant, delivers it for founders and for teams inside organisations.
The content is matched in advance to your audience and goals on a short fitting call.
- Duration
- 90 minutes
- Format
- On site · Online
- Built for
- Aspiring entrepreneurs, General audience
What your audience takes away
- ▸Run a review that surfaces facts instead of turning into a blame meeting.
- ▸Tell a recoverable failure apart from one that should end the project.
- ▸React to a reported mistake so people keep reporting the next one.
- ▸Separate what the failure taught from what it cost the business.
- ▸Restart work after a launch that flopped without taking it personally.
Who this lecture is for
Booked by human resources and organisational development leads who want failure discussed openly rather than buried, by innovation and product leaders whose teams have quietly stopped reporting failed experiments, and by accelerator and incubator managers scheduling a session after a cohort's first pivots. Also relevant to conference producers looking for a slot that is not cheerleading, to municipal young adult centres and academic entrepreneurship centres, and to career change and reservist employment programmes where participants arrive carrying a recent business failure.
Who delivers the lecture
Alexander Slutsker
Business consultant, entrepreneur and founder of Mobius Business Solutions
- ✓14 years of entrepreneurship and consulting, dozens of businesses and managers accompanied in Israel
- ✓MBA in Hi-Tech and Entrepreneurship
- ✓BBA in Marketing and Finance
What organisers say
Alexander's lecture is simply a must for every pre-army programme or youth centre. Our young people received an amazing, practical toolbox for adult life. The content is delivered in a fascinating way, at eye level.
How booking works
- 1
Get in touch
Send a WhatsApp message or use the form, with the date, the audience and the setting.
- 2
A short fitting call
On the call the content and examples are matched to your audience and goals.
- 3
The lecture is delivered
On site or online, 90 minutes, questions from the room included.
Worked with
- Google for Startups
- הבית לעסקים של עיריית שדרות
- Microsoft Reactor
- GameReady
- SderoTech
- IUCEL
- Resilience & Health Innovation Hub
- International Resilience Institute of Sderot
Want this lecture at your organisation?
Send a message with the date and the audience, and a short fitting call matches the content to your organisation.
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Frequently asked questions
Will this bring the mood down at a company celebration?
It does not have to. The subject is what teams learn, not a parade of disasters, and the tone stays practical rather than confessional. Coordinators booking for a celebration often find it lands as relief, because most people in the room have a story they have never been allowed to tell.
How is this different from the lessons learned process we already run?
Most such processes collect what happened and stop there. This lecture deals with the part that usually fails, getting people to state the real cause while a manager is in the room, and deciding which conclusions actually change how the next attempt is run.
Our team just went through a cancelled product. Is it too soon for this?
Usually it is the right moment, provided nobody is being asked to account for themselves in public. The session works on the general mechanics of learning from a setback, and people apply it to their own situation at whatever depth they choose.
What does a manager do differently the next time someone reports a failed experiment?
The reaction in the first minute decides whether that person reports the next one. The lecture covers what that reaction looks like in practice, and why praising the reporting while questioning the decision is what keeps information flowing upward.
Do you cover what a failure actually cost, not only what it taught?
Yes. A lesson that arrives after the money is gone is an expensive lesson. Part of the session deals with capping the downside of the next attempt so that the same learning arrives cheaper.
Part of the audience is experienced and part is new. Will it work?
Yes. The depth is set in advance on the fitting call, examples are matched to the sector, and the base assumes no prior knowledge. Audience questions give the experienced their room too.