We just had a company-wide meeting about "embracing failure" for innovation. Yet, privately my manager still freaks out over small mistakes. How do you handle these mixed messages about risk-taking?

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I would ask them why they do act that way when a small mistake is made.

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Pay Limp Bizkit on the next town hall meeting

Whatever said in company wide meetings please ignore it. You work for manager and thats it. Exception: if you are exceptional employee and known as superstar.

I worked for a company who had a core value of “Call BS on your boss”.
Well I tried that and it didn’t work out so well for me…
Company wides are mostly internal marketing, so I would take everything said with a grain of salt.

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