Variations of course play themselves out in the workplace every day, especially during meetings, i.e., someone volunteers an idea , then is quickly dismissed by the manager, moderator or someone else at the table. Naturally, the effect will be that all such volunteering soon stops. The essence of brainstorming, for example, is to let ALL ideas fly, no matter how wild, impractical or outrageous. First spend a few minutes scribbling everyone's ideas down on a topic before analyzing them for practicality. Even putting up totally wacky ideas on a white board or flip chart, where all can see them, could end up inspiring, by the end of the meeting, the most workable solutiion.
Many companies pay lip service to the idea that it's OK to fail, make mistakes, get things wrong.
Yelling, recriminations, weeping, wailing, probation and parole. Instead, truly creative managers invite open discussion of mistakes and failures on the theory there's always a lesson to be learned from them. Risk-taking, after all, by definition, means sometimes you win and sometimes you lose. Failure is understood as one possible outcome in the overall game. When creative managers truly understand this, they exhibit their support of it in extraordinary ways.