The late US president, Lyndon Johnson, once said: 'Show me a man who never made a mistake, and I will show you a man who never did anything.' In today's 'I-told-you-so' society, where it seems there is always a body of opinion only too ready to criticise individuals and organisations for daring to try something new, the fear of being blamed for making a mistake is one of the biggest barriers to change and innovation. Like the townsfolk who were too scared to tell the naked emperor he had been duped when buying his new clothes, we've probably all, at one time, been in situations where, for fear of being wrong - or at least of being different - we've gone with the flow instead of saying as we saw it.
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