Design Thinking encompasses five steps that all come back to solving the user’s problems:

• Empathize. In order to design with a user focus, product designers first conduct research to learn about who they are designing for.
• Define. Based on u...

• Failure Strengthens You. Failure can tear you down but it also builds you to be a stronger person.
• Failure Gives You a Sense of Direction. You get a sense of clarity on everywhere you have gone wrong and how to take a better path to reach where you want to be.
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Driven people hate failure, even though failure is inevitable. You do not become a successful leader without having experienced failure along the way.

When you make mistakes, own them and let the team know what you are going to do to fix them.