How has the meaning of failure evolved for you throughout your career?

Sue McCarrey, CEO of the National Offshore Petroleum Safety and Environmental Authority (NOPSEMA), provides an honest reflection from earlier in her career when she was younger and how, like many of us, she would often perceive things that didn’t go to plan or when things went wrong as failures and take them to heart. Sue shares that as time goes on and you build your experience in your career, you develop the ability to look at things more critically, observing what’s occurred and distinguishing if it was really a failure, if it was potentially inevitable, or if it’s something you can look at to see then the opportunity to do it differently in this FAQ.

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