Steven Sonsino of the London Business School believes that more companies should allow employees to try out new methods even if they fail.

He says, “Too many senior executives and owners of small businesses have their set way of doing things and end up micro-managing.” This can lead to paralysis in the business through fear of making mistakes.

The best businesses, small or large, encourage workers to try out new ways of doing things whatever the results. This invariably makes the business more successful.

Robert Myatt, Director of business psychology firm Kaisen Consulting confirms this : “If you talk about risk-taking then come down on people like a ton of bricks, it will send out a completely contradictory message.”

The ideal situation is to allow experimentation within reason. In many ways, the people who do the job will know more about it than you do, and what will work, and what will not.