How to Know If Your Failure Was Worth It

Not all failures are created equal. The question isn't just did it fail, it's whether it was a good miss or a bad miss. And knowing the difference might be the most important leadership skill you're not practicing.In this episode, Jonathan Malm and Jason Young dig into Chapter 7 of How to Get a Return on Failure by John Maxwell, unpacking how to evaluate whether a failure was worth attempting in the first place and what to do about it either way. From Saturday night services that never quite took off, to putting the wrong people in the wrong roles, to the tension between cutting your losses and staying faithful to a long-term vision... this one gets practical fast.In this episode, you'll learn:The 7 criteria Maxwell uses to determine if a failure was a good miss or a bad missWhy evaluating only the outcome of a failure misses the most important part of the pictureThe hole-in-the-street story and what it reveals about leaders who keep failing the same wayWhy good doers don't automatically make good leaders (and how misplacing people quietly kills ministries)How to know when to cut your losses versus when to stay the course and why there's no magic dividing lineThe danger of building a codependent ministry where "if they're okay, I'm okay"Why trying to do everything for everyone is quietly eclipsing the things your church actually does wellPlus Jonathan makes a sharp observation about churches holding on to people out of competition rather than calling, and Jason unpacks why the decisions you make before you launch something matter just as much as what happens after.