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&#x27;t think the second is.<p>In most emergent human systems there are mechanisms that discourage risk&#x2F;failure <i>and</i> 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.<p>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&#x27;t help. There&#x27;s a reality in science that is risky. Not everyone&#x27;s talent, luck, or instinct are equal.