General Zinni: Embrace Mistakes, Missteps

Beware the Zero-Defect Delusion.

I should have made nothing if I had not made mistakes.

—Winston Churchill, letter to Clementine Churchill, following his resignation from the government after the Gallipoli disaster, 1915.

A legendary, retired four-star general was recently honored with the Theodore Roosevelt Association Medal of Honor for his life of service and excellence.

Accepting…