79 - If Your Team Never Fails, You’re Doing Something Wrong

What if the safest thing you can do to your team is also the thing holding them back?

Companies love to talk about innovation, growth, and bold thinking—until someone actually takes a risk and fails. Then the meetings start, the blame begins, and suddenly nobody wants to try anything new.

In this episode of Ignoring the Rules podcast, Wayne Robertson challenges the idea that failure is something managers should eliminate.

Smart failure is not recklessness. It is what happens when talented people stretch beyond what they already know, take on harder assignments, discover their limits, and learn how to push past them.

If nobody on your team is ever failing, they may not be succeeding. They may simply be playing it safe.