Fail
By Mitch Berg
Minneapolis now hosts a “Museum of Failure”
It exhibits exactly pretty much what you think it well:
With a unique insight into the risky business of innovation, the ‘Museum of Failure’ aims to inspire and stimulate productive discussion about learning through our blunders. Everyone falls, but what’s most important is knowing how to get back up!
If it doesn’t have three generations of attempt to sell purses and skirts to men – which pops up every 15 years or so – a question the curators commitment to the subject.
January 4th, 2022 at 8:34 am
While the Vikings consistent lack of performance for the past 40+ years obviously provides rich opportunity for highlight in this museum, I’m thinking the Les Steckle era has to merit a permanent exhibit.
January 4th, 2022 at 9:17 am
Local entrepreneur Mike Veeck – he of the infamous “Disco Inferno” night at the old Comiskey that set the outfield on fire – has a well-earned reputation for innovation. One of the keys to innovation is failing, so when my company was hosting an innovation-themed conference I hired him to do the keynote. After we chatted a bit I suggested a name for the presentation, and he rubbed his neck and agreed:
“Everything you always wanted to know about failure – but were afraid to ask.”
January 4th, 2022 at 9:43 am
Appropriately, the Museum of Failure is holding a place in a colossal failure, the Mall of America. Instead of rebuilding the ballpark there for the future, they shifted it to downtown (another failure), built the MOA to help Richfield & Bloomington’s tax revenues, built the Death Train to bring criminals to the MOA, reduced taxes at the MOA to cope with the criminals being there, poured forty million bucks down the crapper to build block E and rebuild downtown shopping, then a few billion more for new stadiums because the HomerDome was a disaster.
January 4th, 2022 at 10:58 am
Failures? Is there space devoted to Gov Klink and the Minneapolis City Council?
January 4th, 2022 at 12:53 pm
Was Les Steckle the guy who traded 6 draft picks and 2 starting players for Herschel Walker? Or some numbers like that, have to go look that up.
January 4th, 2022 at 5:03 pm
Not Les – you are thinking of Mike Lynn – he failed the Vikings.
January 5th, 2022 at 3:41 pm
Minneapolis now IS a “Museum of Failure.”
Fixed it for you.