A system that enables (good) risk and tolerates failure while still clearly recognising failure is relatively rare and powerful. The first parts are relatively

A system that enables (good) risk and tolerates failure while still clearly recognising failure is relatively rare and powerful. The first parts are relatively well understood in business but I don't think the second is. In most emergent human systems there are mechanisms that discourage risk/failure and obscure failure. Face saving, diffusion of responsibility and the like. These exist in commercial, public and political organisations and are often really baked in to the core. Allowing failure and burying it are very different in terms of dynamic effects. Ultimately I think success quires reward, even if it is intrinsic. That means burying doesn't help. There's a reality in science that is risky. Not everyone's talent, luck, or instinct are equal.