“Ignore Failure at Your Own Peril” is the topic of this week’s #kaizenblog chat, hosted by Valeria Maltoni (@conversationage) and Elli St. George – Godfrey (@3keyscoach), which I’ll be joining as a guest host. Friday July 23, 12 PM Eastern, follow the hashtag #kaizenblog, and join the conversation.

We form ourselves more by the routes we take than the destinations we reach.

Failure.

Failure is a rich word, a simple word with a rich vein of thought, opinions, lessons and advice behind it. Every single day, we hear stories about failure, advice about how to deal with it and lessons of how people and organizations have recovered from it. And sometimes, we experience it ourselves.

When you experience failure, what do you do with it? Ignore it? Own up to it privately? Acknowledge it publicly? Attempt to hide it? Show it off?

Although we might be tempted to ignore failure, the fact is that the seeds of success are often in the ashes of failure.

Contained deep within each way to fail are practical, valuable, tangible lessons that can help us all move on, evolve, grow, adapt, and succeed. Less important than failure itself is the direction we take from it.

Or at least that’s what I think. But I’m interested in your thoughts, opinions, lessons, stories and links. Valeria and Elli have prepared some key questions, links and ideas to guide us along this week’s #kaizenblog; follow along and join in.

Join us for this conversation on Friday, April 23rd at 12pm ET/5 pm GMT on Twitter by using the hashtag kaizenblog. It might be easier to sign into the conversation by using Tweetchat or Tweetgrid. Add your thoughts to the conversation!