Hi David,

I love this story because it's so true.  We cannot really succeed if we do not encourage innovation.  I feel like we live in a culture in which failure has such lasting consequences, that it discourages innovation.  In business there are certainly financial consequences for failure, but there are also consequences for stagnation.  An great quote from Tom Peters, "If you don't like change, you're going to like irrelevance even less."  Change is not a choice, it is the only real road to success and encouragement to innovate without consequence leads to successful change.

Thank you for sharing your story.