People have a natural fear of Show weaknessespecially during Interviews If you try to present your best yourself. This is exactly why Nickle LamoreauxThe chronic of the technology gunner IBMAsks every candidate she speaks with the same question: “Can you talk about a time when you have failed?”
Lamoreaux says she is looking for people who can show resilience, especially now that the AI has totally applied Workers’ work as we know and the employees are forced to do so Learn new skills Keep step over time. In other words, can someone fail, choose again, learn from their mistakes and continue quickly? It is a quality that Lamoreaux calls.Learn agility“Or the ability to constantly turn and build skills. It is also what you today describe as a” greatest critical success factor “in business.
“We are in an environment where you cannot predict what the next one is,” she said in a committee of the Tech week 2025 in New York City in the early this month. “What if you spend two years with learning something that does not turn out, what is your personal resilience to record yourself and learn the next?”
The HR leader says that the IBM workforce is trying to not only discuss the idea of failure, but to hug it. CEO Arvind Krishna now holds monthly office hours that are transferred to the company where he calls AI paths that did not work. It is an internal attempt to “normalize” failure, says Lamoreaux, as there will be many attempts and difficulties associated with the introduction of the new technology. She adds that it is just as important to consider what does not work to highlight what does so that others make the mistake less likely.
While this type of culture is endemic for startups, it is less common in established Fortune -500 companies. “For large organizations that have been around for a long time, this idea is not so easy to fail and celebrate them,” she says. “It is a cultural change for many organizations. People have a hard time being able to fail with the word.
Brit Morse
Brit.morse@fortune.com
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