Blog: Stories of Failure and Learning

Redefining meritocracy...

Turn meritocracy around in your workplace
 Here are 7 ways to provide opportunities beyond merit.

I f*cking knew it!!!

Learn how your expectations affect your team and discover 7 ways to positively influence work.

7 Myths about introverts at work

Discover and unlearn the main myths about introverted profiles at work to create more diverse, creative and innovative teams.

Where Do Good Ideas Go?

Are good ideas getting lost in your team? We share with you 6 ways to encourage diversity of ideas and take advantage of their full potential.

Emotional Passion vs. Intentional Flow

Here are 6 tips to achieve a state of total flow at work.

“I can tell you the EXACT moment I ruined my company”: Lessons Learned from Leon Failure

In an exclusive interview with Fuckup Nights, Leon Winkler shares the reasons why his first company collapsed at the height of his career.

Why Do We Live in Frustration?: Philosophy and Techniques for Dealing with Frustration

Why Are We So Frustrated at Work and in Life in General? Here Are 6 Techniques to Deal with It.

Why do we ignore red flags and how can we pay more attention to them?

While sometimes some failures just happen, many others possibly were silently announced behind our backs or loudly in front of our eyes.

How to create a trauma-informed workplace

A trauma-informed workplace aims to prevent retraumatization - presenting stimuli or experiences that trigger a reliving of past trauma.

Positive work environments? Increasing Motivation

Behind motivation at work there is a psychological explanation that not only has to do with money, but also with basic needs.

Is giving up meat in January a capitalist fad?

We are not here to impose ideas, we simply invite you to take the step that aligns with your own values based on verifiable data.

The Possible Adjacent

How can we cope with the slow process of innovating while identifying the possibilities that lie ahead?

Fuckup Nights in Numbers 2023

As every year, we want to remember what made 2023 a good year for us. Also, download our Failure at Work report 2023!

We need to talk... about feedback: the feedback and some tips

Here we tell you everything: the when, how and why of a good feedback at work.

Being vulnerable vs. the world of work

What if vulnerability is actually a symptom of psychological safety and good failure management?

Innovation: Useful knowledge from failure

How to take advantage of the lessons learned from failure (and also from success)?

4 Symptoms of Psychological Danger in your workplace

Will TikTok replace your therapist?

In a society where individualism and social networking reign, mental health and self-care have become a popular topic.

Can Moms Work? 5 Steps to a Mom-Friendly Workplace

Raquel, a mother and Communications Manager at Fuckup Nights , talks to us about historical inequality regarding motherhood in the workplace and how to change it

The most common mistakes when managing failures at work

We list some of the most common negative reactions to failure that we see in work environments.

Guest blog: Top 5 reasons why tech talent moves jobs (and how to retain it)

Money, while the main incentive, is not the only reason why tech talent decides to change jobs.

4 biases that interfere with corporate culture change

A lot of resistance to change happens because of biases at work. Here are some of them...

Failure in Review 2022

We lived 2022 with urgency. Vaccinated and ready to embrace each other again, we were ready to live again, to be better and to learn from failure.

The Power of Catharsis

Catharsis cannot be measured or quantified, however, it is a concept with which we are familiar.... or are we?

4 toxic archetypes in work environments

We came up with 4 fictitious archetypes that encompass toxic habits in the office. Within these four profiles we find real bad practices.

Our Values

We wanted to get drunk, and instead, we ended up wanting to help advance capitalism to a new stage of transparency through a global organization.

Failure leads to success... right?

"Success is the result of perfection, hard work, learning from failure to failure" "Failure is success in progress"... and it is, right?.... RIGHT?!

Organizational Culture: Living Without Filters - But With Values

Creating and maintaining our culture becomes even more important, as it does having something that acts as a guide to drive decision-making processes

Share the failure... success?

We can learn more from failure... can't we? We want to explore this possibility. Is success alone worth sharing?

Making work fun and personal

What if employees were better empowered to create their own workspaces?

Fuckup Nights Virtual reality… it's a reality!

Fuckup Nights s have taken place in unexpected places. Why not in the uncharted territory of virtual reality?

Our Trojan Horse advances in the social sector

We like to infiltrate organizations like the UNDP at México to change perceptions of failure in the social sector

A Look Inside Our Private Events

Curious to know what a "Failure" event for your company would look like? Ricardo shares his experience as a moderator

Fail mindfully: Why I decided to talk about it at TED

Failing fast is a great way to accelerate learning, however, we are promoting mediocrity and minimizing the devastating consequences of failure.

What is failure after all?

We asked some of our team members about the true meaning of failure. Find out what society describes as failure.

Fuckup Book

A recap of 12 stories of innovators and some interesting insights about failure, discover the Fuckup Book. Download it now!

Not prepared for launch: when going viral sucks

If celebrity influencers are incorporated into your marketing plan right from the beginning, then your startup better be ready since day 1 as well.

Fuckup CV

Fuckup Nights Co-founder and Director Leti Gasca and Global Coordinator Yannick Kwik are already listing their failures on their LinkedIn profiles.

The fuckup posters

Curious about what the first " Fuckup Nights " flyers and banners looked like? Check them out right here!

The challenges of our name

We're not joking when we say it's hard to deal with this, but at end of the day everybody swears when things go upside down