For me, this year has been a direct experience in what you describe. In retrospect, the team and I needed to experience the “failure” of our initial strategic plan to set the seeds for the larger success that is coming. We had to do it. To attempt otherwise would have led to a much larger non-recoverable failure, of that I’m convinced. Funny, because at the start of this project I would have thought that failure is failure and is to be avoided at all costs. Now I know: not true!