Failing Smarter: Turning Setbacks...
Failing Smarter: Turning Setbacks into Advantage with Rachel Franco
Human Performance and Latent Causes by Robert E. Statham, subject matter expert in Latent Cause Analysis for Human Performance.
S2026 · E14
Aug 25, 2026
31:06
Episode notes

Rachel Franco, Founder of Fail Smarter LLC, joins Rob to discuss how leaders can turn failure into a competitive advantage. They dig into psychological safety, productive failure, and the practical systems that help teams stop hiding setbacks and start learning from them—without the blame game. A natural conversation between Latent Cause thinking and the Fail Smarter approach.

Keywords
latent cause analysis
leadership
What You Can Learn From Things That Go Wrong
Fail Smarter