Quoted: Everyone makes mistakes, it is not that the mistake was made, it is how one fixes that mistake.
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I worked for a software company that had that philosophy. They had bugs in the product and to help solve that problem, they paid a $50 bounty to test engineers to find bugs. It worked, bugs were being found. Dozens, then hundreds, then thousands. Not long after that they realized developers and testers had gotten together to get rich.
When I joined a hardware company, I noticed that the SEs who received the most accolades, bonuses etc., were the ones who cleaned up the worst "train wrecks". No accolades or bonuses or even a "good job" ever went to the SE who did it right from the beginning. Well, I was not the only one who noticed; you know where this is going. SEs stopped going over sales quotes and fixing configuration problems, etc., before the hardware arrived. Instead they waited till it was on the customer dock, the customers was in a hurry to get it installed, and then the SE came up with a "Get Well Plan", fixed the problem, was a hero, and got the big buck$ for cleaning up that "train wreck".
Me, I will take the quiet guy who gets it right the first time.