{"id":70314,"date":"2017-06-09T03:02:31","date_gmt":"2017-06-09T10:02:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2017\/06\/swedens-museum-of-failure-a-spectacular-catalogue-of-the-worlds-worst-innovations"},"modified":"2017-06-09T03:02:31","modified_gmt":"2017-06-09T10:02:31","slug":"swedens-museum-of-failure-a-spectacular-catalogue-of-the-worlds-worst-innovations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2017\/06\/swedens-museum-of-failure-a-spectacular-catalogue-of-the-worlds-worst-innovations","title":{"rendered":"Sweden\u2019s Museum of Failure: A spectacular catalogue of the world\u2019s worst innovations"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/swedens-museum-of-failure-a-spectacular-catalogue-of-the-worlds-worst-innovations.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Samuel West is obsessed with failures. In fact, the innovation researcher and <a href=\"http:\/\/samuelwest.se\/\">organizational psychologist<\/a> collects them\u2014and now his collection is on display.<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/museumoffailure.se\/#events\">Museum of Failure<\/a>, West\u2019s brainchild, celebrates the absurd and hilarious wrong turns that companies have taken in their product development\u2014from Colgate\u2019s unappetizing beef lasagna, to Harley Davidson\u2019s leathery-scented perfume, to Bic\u2019s sexist \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.forbes.com\/sites\/davidvinjamuri\/2012\/08\/30\/bic-for-her-what-they-were-actually-thinking-as-told-by-a-man-who-worked-on-tampons\/#3d6bff643ab8\">for Her<\/a>\u201d lady\u2019s pen.<\/p>\n<p>But it\u2019s more than that, too. West\u2019s bigger point, he says, is he\u2019s sick of everyone worshipping success. Every failure is uniquely spectacular, says West, while success is nauseatingly repetitive. True innovation requires learning from the complexities of each failure\u2014a skill that, he says, most companies fail to hone. Opening this June in Helsingborg, Sweden, the museum seeks to de-stigmatize personal and professional failure.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"https:\/\/qz.com\/956795\/swedens-museum-of-failure-a-spectacular-catalogue-of-the-worlds-worst-innovations\/\">https:\/\/qz.com\/956795\/swedens-museum-of-failure-a-spectacula...novations\/<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Samuel West is obsessed with failures. In fact, the innovation researcher and organizational psychologist collects them\u2014and now his collection is on display. The Museum of Failure, West\u2019s brainchild, celebrates the absurd and hilarious wrong turns that companies have taken in their product development\u2014from Colgate\u2019s unappetizing beef lasagna, to Harley Davidson\u2019s leathery-scented perfume, to Bic\u2019s sexist [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":417,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1522],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-70314","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-innovation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70314","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/417"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=70314"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70314\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=70314"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=70314"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=70314"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}