Haas: A lack of failure means you are not pushing boundaries
René Haas · 20VC: Arm CEO Rene Haas on How The Best Leaders Make Decisions and The Trade-Off Between Speed and Quality | Leadership Lessons from 7 Years at Nvidia | How Companies Can Retain Speed, Innovation and Agility at Scale · Sep 2, 2022 · at 8:12
René Haas, CEO of Arm, reflects on decision-making speed and organizational culture in technology companies.
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“In fact, the only way you genuinely learn is by failing. You learn far more from your failures than you do from your successes. If you don't have a lot of failures, it means you probably not push the envelope enough.”
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