An organization culture can have a strong impact on its innovation delivery. One dimension of this is the attitude toward failure - should we strive on an extreme competitive culture that strongly punishes any failure or should we tolerate it and try to learn from them. In this interesting article from Fast Company ( http://www.fastcompany.com/3000524/encourage-innovation-eradicate-blame ), it is defended than a company has actually more to win if it eradicates blame, as it actually promotes and then encourages bolder initiatives that can result in frequent and more different innovations. I must say I am a strong supportive of this thinking, also quoting Edison's electrical lamp process ("each mistake got me closer to the right solution"). But then... how to compound this with the most innovative company in the world, Apple, whose mentor (Steve Jobs, if you have been isolated from civilization over the past 30 years) is usually quoted as an example of severe discipline toward failures? Probably, the secret is all about eradicating blame but still not being passive about failure, taking hard stances to learn from mistakes and to prevent their recurrence.
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