It seems the author is conflating a human social proclivity toward back-slapping/good-jobs with a reluctance to admit failure. Medium and large groups admit fa

It seems the author is conflating a human social proclivity toward back-slapping/good-jobs with a reluctance to admit failure. Medium and large groups admit failure all the time, but rarely dwell on it. Instead they adjust and evolve, which is the healthy response to failure. Consider changes in management, business pivots, board changes, values evolutions, even cultural shifts and generational displacement. These are responses to failure after some form of prior admission to failure, even if slight. The shiny thing that happens is declarations of victory and praise - so that’s where a lot of attention goes and where even the author has a bias. Admissions of failure are by their own mechanics brief and not very sparkly/shiny/attention-getting.