FAILFaire: celebrating failure

I've been thinking quite a lot recently about failure. Or more precisely about the inevitability yet unpredictability of much failure. I've been coming across business gurus who point out that for every successful project there are many failures and that therefore we have to have a positive valuing of what we can gain from failures: we can learn and we can learn what to improve.
I've also been reflecting how counter-productive is a regime that doesn't really deal productively and compassionately with mistakes. By raising stakes unnecessarily, the energy that could be ploughed into learning and improving and even cleaning-up is ploughed instead into covering-up, in-fighting, blame-games and generally making a workplace less happy and productive.

So imagine my delight to find this: FAILFaire�|� Why FAILFaire?
Basically an organisation dedicated to sharing mistakes in an accepting environment in order for everyone to be able to learn from them: "We believe that only if we understand what DOESN’T WORK in this field and stop pushing our failures under the rug, can we collectively learn and get better, more effective, and have greater impact as we go forward."

I wonder what would happen if Christian literature would have more of this instead of the '10 successful ministries of sheep-stealing' books that abound. In fact, wouldn't you have thought that, with a crucified 'failure' at the heart of the faith, we'd be a bit better at valuing 'failure'? ... Yes, I know about the resurrection, but still; in terms of the generally accepted success-script for a Messiah, Jesus didn't do it properly. And so much of the successes of the early church in Acts seem to be presented rather as opportunist exploitations of God's proddings and acts rather than the playing out of successful strategies. Paul's missionary journeys seem more happenstance and trial-and-error than successful campaigns; if it doesn't work here, move on ...
I may be wrong, but ...