Letting people fail and letting projects fail seem fairly different to me (at least for large projects). There have been a bunch of times in my career where I'

Letting people fail and letting projects fail seem fairly different to me (at least for large projects). There have been a bunch of times in my career where I've allowed people under me to "fail". Often times, an individual failing at something is just not that expensive; while being highly educational. Sometimes, it turns out that there approach actually worked, and we as a group gained a new bit of institutional knowledge.