## How do you get punished when you fail a task at work? ##

Well, if you are a professional athlete, if you lose a game they sack you and never let you play the sport again. However, I see from your profile that you are a programmer so I know if there is a bug in your code they just shoot you dead because no software ever has been released with a bug, right?

**Failure happens.**

An efficient organisation doesn’t punish people for failing, only for not trying. Or betrayal.

That is not to say there shouldn’t be *consequences*, but *punishment* is not necessarily one of these. Even in modern organisations, punishment typically flows from politics rather than failure itself.