????《失敗了又如何？》（So You Fail, So What），這是二十年前我給《財富》雜志（Fortune）撰寫一篇封面報道的標題。這篇報道影響深遠（今天還有讀者會向我問起它），并且現(xiàn)在比任何時候都更契合時代主題：各種創(chuàng)意和資本在全球自由流動，任何人都可以開展創(chuàng)新、測試、失敗、重振旗鼓、再次出擊。

????實際上，如果你不曾失敗過，那你可能就算不上是個領(lǐng)導(dǎo)者。在我每周一為安永公司（Ernst & Young）主持的網(wǎng)絡(luò)直播節(jié)目《賽而為贏》（Playing to Win）中，一群明星運動員出身的商界女強人表達了這樣的觀點。

????迪薇羅娜說：“偉大的冠軍都有過戰(zhàn)勝挫折、重新奮起的經(jīng)歷?！彼?上60年代的奧運會游泳金牌得主，這是她的肺腑之言。她13歲就創(chuàng)造了一項世界紀錄，15歲那年失去了它，16歲又再次把它奪回手中。但她17歲就退役了，因為那時很少會有人贊助她這樣的女孩進行訓(xùn)練、參加比賽。

????于是迪薇羅娜告別泳池投身政壇，在國會中全力推動實施美國教育法《第九修正案》（Title IX）。這是一部1972年通過的法案，正是它要求所有獲得公共資金資助的教育機構(gòu)讓女孩享有參加各種運動和其他活動的平等權(quán)利，從而徹底改變了女性在這方面的權(quán)益。

????2013年，在安永公共政策全球副主席貝絲?布魯克的領(lǐng)導(dǎo)下，該公司創(chuàng)立了“女運動員商業(yè)圈”（Women Athletes Business Network），旨在幫助杰出運動員轉(zhuǎn)戰(zhàn)商業(yè)圈。她說：“挫折只是一種學(xué)習(xí)經(jīng)歷。勝利無法教會一個人如何恢復(fù)元氣，東山再起。恰恰只有挫折、失敗才有這個功能。而深知如果自己訓(xùn)練更刻苦、時間更長、更加自律，明天就會做得更好。

????而在1992年奧運會上奪得兩塊游泳金牌的薩默?桑德斯非常同意這一觀點：“如果未曾失敗過，人在狀態(tài)最糟糕的時候就無法認清自己。”（財富中文網(wǎng)）

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????So You Fail, So What. That's the title of a Fortune cover story that I wrote two decades ago. The story still has legs (readers ask me about it to this day) and is more relevant now than ever: The global flow of ideas and money enables anyone to innovate, test, fail, pivot and try again.

????If you haven't failed, in fact, you may not be a leader at all. That's what a cast of star athlete-businesswomen said during Playing to Win, a live webcast that I moderated for Ernst & Young on Monday.

????"A great champion deals with setback with a comeback," said Donna de Varona, who was a gold medal Olympic swimmer in the 1960s and knows from experience. De Varona set a world record at age 13, lost it at 15, got it back at 16 and retired at age 17 because back then, little funding existed for girls like her to train and compete in sports.

????So, de Varona left the pool and went to Congress to push for Title IX, the 1972 legislation that changed the game for women by requiring equal opportunity for girls to pursue sports and other activities in any educational institution that receives public funding.

????"Setbacks are just learning experiences," added Beth Brooke, EY's global vice chair for public policy, who led the 2013 creation of the firm's Women Athletes Business Network to help elite performers in sports pivot into business. "It's not the winning that teaches you how to be resilient. It's the setback. It's the loss," Brooke explained. "It's the knowledge that if I work harder, if I practice longer, if I'm more disciplined, I will do better tomorrow."

????Summer Sanders, who won two gold medals for swimming in the 1992 Olympic Games, agrees: "If you don't fail, you don't know who you really are at your worst moment."