Internal Facebook posts of employees discussing leaked memo
Provocative ideas are critical to discovering truths that consensus won&#x27;t find.<p>The reason Facebook (and many successful tech companies) is successful is because they relentlessly experiment and iterate, killing off ideas that don&#x27;t gain traction while embracing those that do.  Often times the ideas that do get traction are unexpected, but revealed because of a culture that allows any idea to be thrown into the dialogue.<p>If you can&#x27;t say something provocative without fear of it later coming back to haunt you, folks will be less likely to raise uncomfortable, or non-consensus, ideas.  This will lead to less innovation.  It&#x27;s also okay if it&#x27;s wrong. And if it is wrong, folks should be willing to push back.  That&#x27;s how a high-functioning, ideas driven organizations thrives.