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"Failure" got a glow-up sometime in the last 20 years. Instead of something to be feared, gurus tell us to embrace failure. That failure is a waypoint on the path to success. But this shift in our relationship with failure has only further inscribed the winner-loser binary that causes so much of our anxiety about the future.
What if "failure" wasn't part of the "success" formula? What if we looked beyond conventional notions of failure and success to question whether those ideas even matter at all? Whether they serve us at all?
Today on the podcast, Kate Tyson (Strathmann) is queering failure. She's questioning what it means to build a business or a project without the normative notions of success and failure. And how calling those norms into question allows us to imagine new and different ways to do business—or any kind of venture.
"Queer Failure" is an excerpt from [Im]Possible Business by Kate Tyson.
Footnotes:
What if "failure" wasn't part of the "success" formula? What if we looked beyond conventional notions of failure and success to question whether those ideas even matter at all? Whether they serve us at all?
Today on the podcast, Kate Tyson (Strathmann) is queering failure. She's questioning what it means to build a business or a project without the normative notions of success and failure. And how calling those norms into question allows us to imagine new and different ways to do business—or any kind of venture.
"Queer Failure" is an excerpt from [Im]Possible Business by Kate Tyson.
Footnotes:
- [Im]Possible Business by Kate Tyson
- Follow Kate's writing on Substack
- The Queer Art of Failure by Jack Halberstam
- Fox Market and Bar in Montpelier, Vermont
- "Don't Bail Out the Restaurant Industry" by Tunde Wey
- Saidiya Hartman
- Étaín Underthings
- Runway's Entrepreneur Universal Basic Income program
- Wanderwell Bookkeeping and Consulting
- "Queer Theory" by Nancy Harding in Key Concepts in Critical Management Studies
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What is What Works?
Work is central to the human experience. It helps us shape our identities, care for those we love, and contribute to our communities. Work can be a source of power and a catalyst for change. Unfortunately, that's not how most of us experience work—even those who work for themselves. Our labor and creative spirit are used to enrich others and maintain the status quo. It's time for an intervention. What Works is a show about rethinking work, business, and leadership for the 21st-century economy. Host Tara McMullin covers money, management, culture, media, philosophy, and more to figure out what's working (and what's not) today. Tara offers a distinctly interdisciplinary approach to deep-dive analysis of how we work and how work shapes us.