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Carpe Factum: Botox and the Organization

by Eric D. Brown on June 5, 2008 · View Comments

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Short post today…but powerful (at least I think so). Great post over at Carpe Factum today titled “Are You Botox-ing Your Organization?“.

Not much I can add to what Timothy has already said other than to ask you the following question:

Do you allow your employees/teams to fail?Â Do they know they have the right to fail?Â If not, you aren’t really allowing innovation and change and you are “Botox-ing your organization”.

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Eric is a Consultant, Entrepreneur and Doctoral Student focused on helping organizations cross the chasm that exists between Business & IT. Eric writes extensively about technology, strategy, people and projects at http://ericbrown.com. In addition to this blog and his consulting work, Eric is an avid & passionate photographer and writes about photography, shares photographs and reviews products at Photography Minute.

Jeffery R Raval

I think I will start spreading that term "Botox-ing the organization" Its like the week link of the organization.

ericbrown

No problem Timothy.

Timothy Johnson

Eric - thanks for the link - great additional question to ask. Fear of failure holds so many potentially great organizations and employees back.