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“Consequences for mistakes” is generally not a good way of operating. Kind of the whole idea behind a blameless retro for example.

Execs are paid an extraordinary amount of money because they are the ultimate decision makers and should be responsible for their decisions.

So they should get paid lots of money to never do anything risky?

Sometimes things don’t work out. That doesn’t mean it was a punishable offense to try.