It's incentives. The true benefit to the company comes when people can make mistakes and learn from them. But often, the forces on management are not in alignme

It's incentives. The true benefit to the company comes when people can make mistakes and learn from them. But often, the forces on management are not in alignment. Imagine Manager Mark has a direct report, Ryan, commit a big and public error. And then 1.5 years later Ryan commits another public error. "What kind of Mickey Mouse show is Manager Mark running over there?" asks colleague Claire, "Isn't that guy Ryan the same one that screwed up the TPS reports last year?" On the other hand, if Mark fires Ryan, then mark is a decisive manager. Even if the total number of major errors is higher, then still there will not be a risk of letting being known as a manager that let's people screw up multiple times.