You must fully understand your role as a team player and be 100 percent committed to your organization. How well communication is handled creates an atmosphere that either welcomes or inhibits open and honest discussion. To be innovative means you must be willing to fail and accept failure as being one step closer to success and greatness. It shows that at least you tried, and the reality is there is not much you can do that can't be undone. Failure is really another opportunity to succeed.
Successful companies encourage honest failure.
Trash your bureaucratic policies and redefine them in terms of what the internal and external customers' needs and expectations are. If you have bad news, give it to the customer before they call you. If you have good news, give it to the customer first. Mistakes will always cost the company money. The longer mistakes go undetected or unsolved, the more it costs.