The Tipping Point Between Failure and Success

Dashun Wang, associate professor at Kellogg School of Management,
crunched big datasets of entrepreneurs, scientists, and even
terrorist organizations to better understand the fine line between
failure and success. One surprising finding is that people who
experience early failures often become more accomplished than
counterparts who achieve early successes. Another insight is that
the pace of failure is an indicator of the tipping point between
stagnation and eventual success. Wang is a coauthor of the study in
the journal Nature: “Quantifying the dynamics of failure across
science, startups and security.”