How to Encourage Employees to Break the Rules

What drives workplace rule-breaking and when it’s worth encouraging it

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There are two types of companies: the ones that compel employees to follow the rules and those that encourage people to break them. The first seeks compliance, the latter innovation. The problem with a binary approach to rules is that it divides people into two camps– you are either a conformist or a rebel.

Organizations need …