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* Let's say you're a college basketball team in the powerful ACC (Atlantic Coast Conference). You've just come off an appearance in the NCAA tournament Elite Eight, and your coach has decided to leave for another job. Who do you hire to replace him? A coach for a traditionally weak team, who just completed a 9-17 season, including some close wins against Division III teams, and a 24-point loss to one of the top ACC teams. A disaster waiting to happen, right? Actually, no, because this was Duke in 1980, hiring Army's Mike Krzyzewski (who, despite his mediocre record at West Point was well-regarded in basketball circles as a protégé of Indiana legend Bob Knight). Over the next four decades, until his retirement in 2022, Krzyzewski guided Duke to five national championships and has the most coaching wins of anyone in college basketball history (1,202).
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* ''Literature/Discworld'' features a variant in ''Literature/UnseenAcademicals'', when Ridcully discovers that one of the wizards broke the cardinal rules surrounding the highly dangerous Cabinet of Curiosity, and almost died as a result. Rather than thinking he's learned his lesson, however, Ridcully promotes him because he's an independent thinker who took a risk and ''didn't'' die, and surely that's worth rewarding?
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* ''Literature/Discworld'' ''Literature/{{Discworld}}'' features a variant in ''Literature/UnseenAcademicals'', when Ridcully discovers that one of the wizards broke the cardinal rules surrounding the highly dangerous Cabinet of Curiosity, and almost died as a result. Rather than thinking he's learned his lesson, however, Ridcully promotes him because he's an independent thinker who took a risk and ''didn't'' die, and surely that's worth rewarding?
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** In ''Literature/TheThrawnTrilogy'', Grand Admiral Thrawn promotes a subordinate who failed to capture Luke's ship with a TractorBeam. The subordinate received high praise because he went above and beyond his duty in his efforts, creating new strategies on the fly that, even though they failed, still bespoke top-notch problem-solving skills. (Bonus points for actually taking responsibility for his failure.) The tractor beam operator was then told to work out a way to counter Luke's trick. [[SugarWiki/MomentOfAwesome He did.]]
*** Contrast with a similar situation earlier in the trilogy; the tractor beam operator, in that case, exhibited both incompetence and insubordination--he had failed to capture the right target and then tried to pass the buck on to his superior. Once Thrawn got a grasp of the situation, ''that'' tractor beam operator was executed.
*** Contrast with a similar situation earlier in the trilogy; the tractor beam operator, in that case, exhibited both incompetence and insubordination--he had failed to capture the right target and then tried to pass the buck on to his superior. Once Thrawn got a grasp of the situation, ''that'' tractor beam operator was executed.
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*** Grand Admiral Thrawn promotes a subordinate who failed to capture Luke's ship with a TractorBeam. The subordinate received high praise because hewent above and beyond his duty in his efforts, creating improvised a clever new strategies on the fly that, tactic, even though they failed, still bespoke top-notch problem-solving skills. (Bonus points for actually taking responsibility for his failure.) The tractor beam operator was then it wasn't enough, and owned up when he failed. He's told to work out a way method to counter Luke's trick. [[SugarWiki/MomentOfAwesome He did.]]
*** Contrast with a similar situation earlier in the trilogy; the tractor beam operator, in that case, exhibited both incompetencetrick -- and insubordination--he had succeeds. In contrast, his predecessor not only failed to capture the right target and then but tried to pass the buck on to his superior. Once Thrawn got buck, earning [[YouHaveFailedMe a grasp of the situation, ''that'' tractor beam operator was executed.summary execution]].
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*** Contrast with a similar situation earlier in the trilogy; the tractor beam operator, in that case, exhibited both incompetence
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** This trope is also how Wedge Antilles manages the formation of [[Literature/XWingSeries Wraith Squadron]]; [[ShellShockedVeteran previously-trained pilots]] who screwed up in various ways, many of them not really their fault, get one last chance. Wedge is scrupulous about the pilots he accepts, though; of the ~40 pilots that try out, only ten make it in.
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** ''Literature/XWingSeries'': This trope is also how Wedge Antilles manages the formation of [[Literature/XWingSeries Wraith Squadron]]; Squadron; [[ShellShockedVeteran previously-trained pilots]] who screwed up in various ways, many of them not really their fault, get one last chance. Wedge is scrupulous about the pilots he accepts, though; of the ~40 pilots that try out, only ten make it in.
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* In ''Manga/SoulEater'' [[BigBad Arachne]] gives this as a reason for averting YouHaveFailedMe.
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* ''Fanfic/CyberpunkAnotherDaybreak'':
** After blowing the lid off of TheMasquerade, wrecking a contruction site, and accidentally revealing Hiden's secret weapon to the world, David naturally expects to lose his job. Instead, Isu assures him that he'll be put in charge of a new department of the Kamen Riders, specializing in Hiden Intelligence.
** Isu also took an interest in Lucy and the rest of Maine's crew after she attempted to electronically pickpocket his company. Given how powerful their ICE is, Isu took the fact that she managed to get as far as she did as evidence that her team was impressively talented.
* In ''Fanfic/MyHeroSchoolAdventureIsAllWrongAsExpected'', Service Group D attempts to apprehend the U.A. inflitrator by themselves. In the aftermath, the teachers take them to task for how reckless their efforts were... while also praising their ''good intentions'', encouraging them to learn from their mistakes.
* The ''Fanfic/PonyPermutationProject'' suggests that Princess Celestia intentionally let Twilight overestimate what she was capable of and tackle tasks that she wasn't truly prepared for so that her student could learn her limits the hard way.
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* ''Fanfic/CyberpunkAnotherDaybreak'':
** After blowing the lid off of TheMasquerade, wrecking a contruction site, and accidentally revealing Hiden's secret weapon to the world, David naturally expects to lose his job. Instead, Isu assures him that he'll be put in charge of a new department of the Kamen Riders, specializing in Hiden Intelligence.
** Isu also took an interest in Lucy and the rest of Maine's crew after she attempted to electronically pickpocket his company. Given how powerful their ICE is, Isu took the fact that she managed to get as far as she did as evidence that her team was impressively talented.
* In ''Fanfic/MyHeroSchoolAdventureIsAllWrongAsExpected'', Service Group D attempts to apprehend the U.A. inflitrator by themselves. In the aftermath, the teachers take them to task for how reckless their efforts were... while also praising their ''good intentions'', encouraging them to learn from their mistakes.
* The ''Fanfic/PonyPermutationProject'' suggests that Princess Celestia intentionally let Twilight overestimate what she was capable of and tackle tasks that she wasn't truly prepared for so that her student could learn her limits the hard way.
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* In ''Literature/LegendOfTheGalacticHeroes'', this is one of Reinhard von Lohengramm's most admirable traits: when a subordinate fails him, he just tells him that he knows the subordinate learned his lesson and will do better next time. He is universally right in his judgment. [[note]]He wasn't always like that. The first time Reinhard wanted to punish an officer who caused him to lose a battle, his best friend and living conscience, Kircheis, pleaded to him not to do it. Reinhard listened to his advice and learned the lesson.[[/note]]
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* In ''Literature/LegendOfTheGalacticHeroes'', this is one of Reinhard von Lohengramm's most admirable traits: when a subordinate fails him, he just tells him that he knows the subordinate learned his lesson and will do better next time. He is universally right in his judgment. [[note]]He wasn't always like that. The first time Reinhard wanted to punish an officer who caused him to lose a battle, his best friend and living conscience, Kircheis, pleaded to him not to do it. Reinhard listened to his advice and learned the lesson.[[/note]]
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* In ''Film/StarshipTroopers'', Rico is leading the squad when one of his team is shot during a live-fire training exercise. Rico expects to be drummed out, but shows such responsibility that Zim, his sergeant, recommends administrative punishment instead, allowing Rico to stay. Rico, however, declines the invitation, due to his sense of shame, and opts to leave the infantry in disgrace. [[spoiler: However, after the Bugs destroy Buenos Aires, his home city, he requests to be reinstated and finishes his training.]]
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* In ''Film/StarshipTroopers'', Rico is leading the squad when one of his team is shot during a live-fire training exercise. Rico expects to be drummed out, but shows such responsibility that Zim, his sergeant, recommends administrative punishment instead, allowing Rico to stay. Rico, however, declines the invitation, due to his sense of shame, and opts to leave the infantry in disgrace. [[spoiler: However, [[spoiler:However, after the Bugs destroy Buenos Aires, his home city, he requests to be reinstated and finishes his training.]]
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* In ''Literature/DifferentlyMorphous'', despite the Ministry's many blunders, [[spoiler: Sean Anderson decides not to fire anyone involved because their PR disasters are so colossal, they draw attention away from the government's more mundane day-to-day failings.]]
* In Lee Lightner's ''TabletopGame/{{Warhammer 40000}}'' Literature/SpaceWolf novel ''Sons of Fenris'', when Tor has unwisely led his forces into an ambush, Ragnar chooses him to lead to the attack on a [[CoolGate warp portal]] because Tor:
-->''Needs an opportunity to redeem himself, Ranulf. Redemption requires two things: desire and opportunity. I know this better than most.''
* In Lee Lightner's ''TabletopGame/{{Warhammer 40000}}'' Literature/SpaceWolf novel ''Sons of Fenris'', when Tor has unwisely led his forces into an ambush, Ragnar chooses him to lead to the attack on a [[CoolGate warp portal]] because Tor:
-->''Needs an opportunity to redeem himself, Ranulf. Redemption requires two things: desire and opportunity. I know this better than most.''
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* ''Literature/ArtemisFowl'': Julius Root is hard on Holly for several reasons. One of them being that she failed once and failed badly, and she must thus be the best to have that one failure be minimal compared to the rest of her actions.
* Piankhy, the title character of ''The Black Pharaoh'' by Christian Jacq, does this to a village leader who betrayed him, not before scaring him a bit by shaking a knife.
* In ''Literature/DifferentlyMorphous'', despite the Ministry's many blunders,[[spoiler: Sean [[spoiler:Sean Anderson decides not to fire anyone involved because their PR disasters are so colossal, they draw attention away from the government's more mundane day-to-day failings.]]
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*In Lee Lightner's ''TabletopGame/{{Warhammer 40000}}'' Literature/SpaceWolf novel ''Sons of Fenris'', ''Literature/Discworld'' features a variant in ''Literature/UnseenAcademicals'', when Tor has unwisely led Ridcully discovers that one of the wizards broke the cardinal rules surrounding the highly dangerous Cabinet of Curiosity, and almost died as a result. Rather than thinking he's learned his forces into an ambush, Ragnar chooses lesson, however, Ridcully promotes him to lead to the attack on a [[CoolGate warp portal]] because Tor:
-->''Needshe's an opportunity to redeem himself, Ranulf. Redemption requires two things: desire independent thinker who took a risk and opportunity. I know this better than most.''''didn't'' die, and surely that's worth rewarding?
* ''Literature/TheLostFleet'': A key aspect of Captain, later Admiral Geary's leadership style, much to the surprise of his subordinates when he has to deal with a full-blown ''mutiny''; only the ringleaders are relieved of command and placed under arrest, while the ones who'd just let themselves be talked into it by charismatic but incompetent Captain Falco are let off with a warning. They go on to be some of his most loyal and dedicated subordinates.
* Piankhy, the title character of ''The Black Pharaoh'' by Christian Jacq, does this to a village leader who betrayed him, not before scaring him a bit by shaking a knife.
* In ''Literature/DifferentlyMorphous'', despite the Ministry's many blunders,
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* ''Literature/TheLostFleet'': A key aspect of Captain, later Admiral Geary's leadership style, much to the surprise of his subordinates when he has to deal with a full-blown ''mutiny''; only the ringleaders are relieved of command and placed under arrest, while the ones who'd just let themselves be talked into it by charismatic but incompetent Captain Falco are let off with a warning. They go on to be some of his most loyal and dedicated subordinates.
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* Piankhy, the title character of ''The Black Pharaoh'' by Christian Jacq, does this to a village leader who betrayed him, not before scaring him a bit by shaking a knife.
* ''Literature/ArtemisFowl'': Julius Root is hard on Holly for several reasons. One of them being that she failed once and failed badly, and she must thus be the best to have that one failure be minimal compared to the rest of her actions.
* ''Literature/TheLostFleet'': A key aspect of Captain, later Admiral Geary's leadership style, much to the surprise of his subordinates when he has to deal with a full-blown ''mutiny''; only the ringleaders are relieved of command and placed under arrest, while the ones who'd just let themselves be talked into it by charismatic but incompetent Captain Falco are let off with a warning. They go on to be some of his most loyal and dedicated subordinates.
* A variant in ''Literature/UnseenAcademicals'', when Ridcully discovers that one of the wizards broke the cardinal rules surrounding the highly dangerous Cabinet of Curiosity, and almost died as a result. Rather than thinking he's learned his lesson, however, Ridcully promotes him because he's an independent thinker who took a risk and ''didn't'' die, and surely that's worth rewarding?
* ''Literature/ArtemisFowl'': Julius Root is hard on Holly for several reasons. One of them being that she failed once and failed badly, and she must thus be the best to have that one failure be minimal compared to the rest of her actions.
* ''Literature/TheLostFleet'': A key aspect of Captain, later Admiral Geary's leadership style, much to the surprise of his subordinates when he has to deal with a full-blown ''mutiny''; only the ringleaders are relieved of command and placed under arrest, while the ones who'd just let themselves be talked into it by charismatic but incompetent Captain Falco are let off with a warning. They go on to be some of his most loyal and dedicated subordinates.
* A variant in ''Literature/UnseenAcademicals'', when Ridcully discovers that one of the wizards broke the cardinal rules surrounding the highly dangerous Cabinet of Curiosity, and almost died as a result. Rather than thinking he's learned his lesson, however, Ridcully promotes him because he's an independent thinker who took a risk and ''didn't'' die, and surely that's worth rewarding?
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* Piankhy, the title character In Lee Lightner's ''TabletopGame/{{Warhammer 40000}}'' Literature/SpaceWolf novel ''Sons of ''The Black Pharaoh'' by Christian Jacq, does this to a village leader who betrayed him, not before scaring Fenris'', when Tor has unwisely led his forces into an ambush, Ragnar chooses him a bit by shaking a knife.
* ''Literature/ArtemisFowl'': Julius Root is hard on Holly for several reasons. One of them being that she failed once and failed badly, and she must thus be the bestto have that one failure be minimal compared lead to the rest of her actions.
* ''Literature/TheLostFleet'': A key aspect of Captain, later Admiral Geary's leadership style, much to the surprise of his subordinates when he has to deal with a full-blown ''mutiny''; only the ringleaders are relieved of command and placed under arrest, while the ones who'd just let themselves be talked into it by charismatic but incompetent Captain Falco are let off with a warning. They goattack on to be some of his most loyal and dedicated subordinates.
* A variant in ''Literature/UnseenAcademicals'', when Ridcully discovers that one of the wizards broke the cardinal rules surrounding the highly dangerous Cabinet of Curiosity, and almost died asa result. Rather than thinking he's learned his lesson, however, Ridcully promotes him [[CoolGate warp portal]] because he's Tor:
-->''Needs anindependent thinker who took a risk opportunity to redeem himself, Ranulf. Redemption requires two things: desire and ''didn't'' die, and surely that's worth rewarding?opportunity. I know this better than most.''
* ''Literature/ArtemisFowl'': Julius Root is hard on Holly for several reasons. One of them being that she failed once and failed badly, and she must thus be the best
* ''Literature/TheLostFleet'': A key aspect of Captain, later Admiral Geary's leadership style, much to the surprise of his subordinates when he has to deal with a full-blown ''mutiny''; only the ringleaders are relieved of command and placed under arrest, while the ones who'd just let themselves be talked into it by charismatic but incompetent Captain Falco are let off with a warning. They go
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* ''Series/AshesToAshes2008'' pulls this one when Chris turns out to have been corrupt. Gene decides that the shame of still working in CID with everyone knowing what he did will be his punishment.
* ''Series/{{CSI}}'': Grissom is told to fire Warrick because Warrick left a scene and, as a result, rookie CSI Holly Gribbs is killed. Grissom tells Warrick that he's already lost one CSI and that he doesn't want to lose another. [[note]]If he fired Warrick for making a mistake, he'd also have to fire himself and the rest of the team, because they've ''all'' made mistakes at one time or another.[[/note]] Warrick then becomes one of the most reliable members of TheTeam.
* ''Series/DoctorWho'': Harriet Jones (MP, Flydale North) stumbles into Downing Street to promote her new health regulation ideas... during the middle of an ''alien invasion''. Being too stubborn to back off, despite everyone repeatedly telling her to, she accidentally spots the aliens while trying to plant her files in the emergency program suitcase. This leads to her meeting the Doctor and becoming the lone reliable witness of the alien battle. The Doctor encourages her to become the invasion's media darling, knowing that it would lead to her eventually becoming Prime Minister of the UK as a result.
* ''Series/HappyDays'': Chachi accidentally burns down Arnold's. Al (the owner) is upset about the fire but doesn't blame Chachi because it was an accident. Fonzie chews Chachi out about it, then appoints Chachi as his representative at [[TheyChangedItNowItSucks the new]] [[InNameOnly Arnold's]] (in which Fonzie's partner with Al), because Fonz knows Chachi will make sure not to screw up again.
* ''Series/HellsKitchen'': OnceAnEpisode, Gordon Ramsey has the best member of the losing team reason why their teammates should either leave or stay. He then calls out the teammates whose departure was recommended and has them defend themselves. Almost all of the time, only one person is eliminated, giving the other nominated person a chance to stay and improve. Several people have gone on to win it all despite multiple nominations for elimination. On occasion, Gordon will eliminate someone who wasn't nominated (sometimes because they were on the winning team) but seriously screwed up, giving all nominees a chance to improve. Of course, if the chef ''doesn't'' shape up, they soon get the boot anyway.
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** In Season 4, Thirteen fatally confounded a diagnosis by accident. Dr. House reasoned that Thirteen would be incredibly attentive to detail after that case. On another occasion, he helps an astronaut further her career in spite of medical considerations that could have made NASA wary. House simply concluded that his patient would be the safest astronaut NASA could possibly hire, given how informed she was about her condition and how desperate she was to do her job well. [[spoiler: He then tells NASA about her disability anyway because he's not an idiot: someone with her medical issues has no business being in control of the Space Shuttle and he knows it. Except not really. He just said that so the other members of his team wouldn't rat her out on their own.]]
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** In Season 4, Thirteen fatally confounded a diagnosis by accident. Dr. House reasoned that Thirteen would be incredibly attentive to detail after that case. On another occasion, he helps an astronaut further her career in spite of medical considerations that could have made NASA wary. House simply concluded that his patient would be the safest astronaut NASA could possibly hire, given how informed she was about her condition and how desperate she was to do her job well. [[spoiler: He [[spoiler:He then tells NASA about her disability anyway because he's not an idiot: someone with her medical issues has no business being in control of the Space Shuttle and he knows it. Except not really. He just said that so the other members of his team wouldn't rat her out on their own.]]
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* ''Series/HappyDays'': Chachi accidentally burns down Arnold's. Al (the owner) is upset about the fire but doesn't blame Chachi because it was an accident. Fonzie chews Chachi out about it, then appoints Chachi as his representative at [[TheyChangedItNowItSucks the new]] [[InNameOnly Arnold's]] (in which Fonzie's partner with Al), because Fonz knows Chachi will make sure not to screw up again.
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* ''Series/HappyDays'': Chachi On ''Series/LawAndOrder'', when Ben Stone was a young Assistant District Attorney, he accidentally burns down Arnold's. Al (the owner) is upset about sent privileged information over to the defense in a case he was working on that cost them the trial. The DA at the time didn't fire him, figuring Stone would be not only more prudent but doesn't blame Chachi because it was an accident. Fonzie chews Chachi out about it, then appoints Chachi as his representative at [[TheyChangedItNowItSucks the new]] [[InNameOnly Arnold's]] (in which Fonzie's partner also forgiving of others when they made similar blunders.
* ''Series/{{Life On Mars|2006}}'': Sam's modern policing style allows a criminal to go free who subsequently puts a woman working in CID in a coma. After a hilarious fight withAl), because Fonz knows Chachi Gene in the woman's hospital room, Sam assumes Gene will make sure want to kick him off the team. Gene fires back with: "Are you joking? You've got to put this right. She's not giving up and nor should you."
* ''Series/ThePractice'': Early in his career, Bobby put on a half-hearted defense of a man he'd been appointed toscrew up again.represent as a public defender, believing him to be guilty; the man was convicted of murder. The man was exonerated several years later and hired Bobby to handle his wrongful imprisonment suit, figuring he'd be motivated to atone for his own role in the conviction.
* ''Series/{{Life On Mars|2006}}'': Sam's modern policing style allows a criminal to go free who subsequently puts a woman working in CID in a coma. After a hilarious fight with
* ''Series/ThePractice'': Early in his career, Bobby put on a half-hearted defense of a man he'd been appointed to
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** ''Series/StarTrekTheNextGeneration'': An indirect example in the Season 7 episode "The Pegasus". Captain Picard mentions that the deciding factor that persuaded him to take on Will Riker as his XO was actually a ''reprimand'' in his record for "insubordination" (read: [[HonestAdvisor "telling a superior officer something they didn't want to hear"]]), showing Riker to be someone who cared more about doing his duty than looking good before a promotion board.
** ''Series/StarTrekDeepSpaceNine'':
*** In "Rules of Engagement" Worf was once put on trial for mistakenly firing on a Klingon civilian ship and killing everyone on board. Fortunately, it was a frame-up job and Worf did not actually kill anyone and is subsequently cleared of all charges. However, he did still fire before properly identifying his target, and Sisko rightly upbraids him for it. Sisko also tells him that this experience will probably prepare him to be a great captain.
*** Unfortunately, subverted in the later episode "Change of Heart", where Worf again breaks protocol, this time to save his otherwise-fatally-injured wife, resulting in a totally botched mission (a valuable enemy defector ends up dead). Sisko, as his superior officer, advises Worf that ''this'' failure probably means he will ''never'' be offered the position of captain. Then, "as a man who lost his wife", Sisko admits he probably would have done the exact same thing in Worf's place. He also admits that it was a mistake to put the two of them together on a mission like that in the first place.
*** This is DoubleSubverted by season 3 of ''Series/StarTrekPicard'', which shows via his rank insignia that Worf ''did'' reach the rank of captain after all. It's even heavily implied (and outright stated in [[LooseCanon ambiguously-canon]] [[AllThereInTheManual supplementary materials]]) that he commanded the ''Enterprise''-E after Picard was promoted to admiral.
* ''Series/TheWestWing'':
** ''Series/StarTrekTheNextGeneration'': An indirect example in the Season 7 episode "The Pegasus". Captain Picard mentions that the deciding factor that persuaded him to take on Will Riker as his XO was actually a ''reprimand'' in his record for "insubordination" (read: [[HonestAdvisor "telling a superior officer something they didn't want to hear"]]), showing Riker to be someone who cared more about doing his duty than looking good before a promotion board.
** ''Series/StarTrekDeepSpaceNine'':
*** In "Rules of Engagement" Worf was once put on trial for mistakenly firing on a Klingon civilian ship and killing everyone on board. Fortunately, it was a frame-up job and Worf did not actually kill anyone and is subsequently cleared of all charges. However, he did still fire before properly identifying his target, and Sisko rightly upbraids him for it. Sisko also tells him that this experience will probably prepare him to be a great captain.
*** Unfortunately, subverted in the later episode "Change of Heart", where Worf again breaks protocol, this time to save his otherwise-fatally-injured wife, resulting in a totally botched mission (a valuable enemy defector ends up dead). Sisko, as his superior officer, advises Worf that ''this'' failure probably means he will ''never'' be offered the position of captain. Then, "as a man who lost his wife", Sisko admits he probably would have done the exact same thing in Worf's place. He also admits that it was a mistake to put the two of them together on a mission like that in the first place.
*** This is DoubleSubverted by season 3 of ''Series/StarTrekPicard'', which shows via his rank insignia that Worf ''did'' reach the rank of captain after all. It's even heavily implied (and outright stated in [[LooseCanon ambiguously-canon]] [[AllThereInTheManual supplementary materials]]) that he commanded the ''Enterprise''-E after Picard was promoted to admiral.
* ''Series/TheWestWing'':
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* ''{{Series/CSI}}'': Grissom is told to fire Warrick because Warrick left a scene and, as a result, rookie CSI Holly Gribbs is killed. Grissom tells Warrick that he's already lost one CSI and that he doesn't want to lose another. [[note]] If he fired Warrick for making a mistake, he'd also have to fire himself and the rest of the team, because they've ''all'' made mistakes at one time or another. [[/note]] Warrick then becomes one of the most reliable members of TheTeam.
* ''Series/HellsKitchen'': OnceAnEpisode, Gordon Ramsey has the best member of the losing team reason why their teammates should either leave or stay. He then calls out the teammates whose departure was recommended and has them defend themselves. Almost all of the time, only one person is eliminated, giving the other nominated person a chance to stay and improve. Several people have gone on to win it all despite multiple nominations for elimination. On occasion, Gordon will eliminate someone who wasn't nominated (sometimes because they were on the winning team) but seriously screwed up, giving all nominees a chance to improve. Of course, if the chef ''doesn't'' shape up, they soon get the boot anyway.
* ''Series/{{Life On Mars|2006}}'': Sam's modern policing style allows a criminal to go free who subsequently puts a woman working in CID in a coma. After a hilarious fight with Gene in the woman's hospital room, Sam assumes Gene will want to kick him off the team. Gene fires back with: "Are you joking? You've got to put this right. She's not giving up and nor should you."
* ''Series/AshesToAshes2008'' pulls this one when Chris turns out to have been corrupt. Gene decides that the shame of still working in CID with everyone knowing what he did will be his punishment.
* ''Series/HellsKitchen'': OnceAnEpisode, Gordon Ramsey has the best member of the losing team reason why their teammates should either leave or stay. He then calls out the teammates whose departure was recommended and has them defend themselves. Almost all of the time, only one person is eliminated, giving the other nominated person a chance to stay and improve. Several people have gone on to win it all despite multiple nominations for elimination. On occasion, Gordon will eliminate someone who wasn't nominated (sometimes because they were on the winning team) but seriously screwed up, giving all nominees a chance to improve. Of course, if the chef ''doesn't'' shape up, they soon get the boot anyway.
* ''Series/{{Life On Mars|2006}}'': Sam's modern policing style allows a criminal to go free who subsequently puts a woman working in CID in a coma. After a hilarious fight with Gene in the woman's hospital room, Sam assumes Gene will want to kick him off the team. Gene fires back with: "Are you joking? You've got to put this right. She's not giving up and nor should you."
* ''Series/AshesToAshes2008'' pulls this one when Chris turns out to have been corrupt. Gene decides that the shame of still working in CID with everyone knowing what he did will be his punishment.
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* ''Series/DoctorWho'': Harriet Jones (MP, Flydale North) stumbles into Downing Street to promote her new health regulation ideas... during the middle of an ''alien invasion''. Being too stubborn to back off, despite everyone repeatedly telling her to, she accidentally spots the aliens while trying to plant her files in the emergency program suitcase. This leads to her meeting the Doctor and becoming the lone reliable witness of the alien battle. The Doctor encourages her to become the invasion's media darling, knowing that it would lead to her eventually becoming Prime Minister of the UK as a result.
* ''Series/ThePractice'': Early in his career, Bobby put on a half-hearted defense of a man he'd been appointed to represent as a public defender, believing him to be guilty; the man was convicted of murder. The man was exonerated several years later and hired Bobby to handle his wrongful imprisonment suit, figuring he'd be motivated to atone for his own role in the conviction.
* On ''Series/LawAndOrder'', when Ben Stone was a young Assistant District Attorney, he accidentally sent privileged information over to the defense in a case he was working on that cost them the trial. The DA at the time didn't fire him, figuring Stone would be not only more prudent but also forgiving of others when they made similar blunders.
* ''Franchise/StarTrek'':
** ''Series/StarTrekTheNextGeneration'': An indirect example in the Season 7 episode "The Pegasus". Captain Picard mentions that the deciding factor that persuaded him to take on Will Riker as his XO was actually a ''reprimand'' in his record for "insubordination" (read: [[HonestAdvisor "telling a superior officer something they didn't want to hear"]]), showing Riker to be someone who cared more about doing his duty than looking good before a promotion board.
** ''Series/StarTrekDeepSpaceNine'':
*** In "Rules of Engagement" Worf was once put on trial for mistakenly firing on a Klingon civilian ship and killing everyone on board. Fortunately, it was a frame-up job and Worf did not actually kill anyone and is subsequently cleared of all charges. However, he did still fire before properly identifying his target, and Sisko rightly upbraids him for it. Sisko also tells him that this experience will probably prepare him to be a great captain.
*** Unfortunately, subverted in the later episode "Change of Heart", where Worf again breaks protocol, this time to save his otherwise-fatally-injured wife, resulting in a totally botched mission (a valuable enemy defector ends up dead). Sisko, as his superior officer, advises Worf that ''this'' failure probably means he will ''never'' be offered the position of captain. Then, "as a man who lost his wife", Sisko admits he probably would have done the exact same thing in Worf's place. He also admits that it was a mistake to put the two of them together on a mission like that in the first place.
*** This is DoubleSubverted by season 3 of ''Series/StarTrekPicard'', which shows via his rank insignia that Worf ''did'' reach the rank of captain after all. It's even heavily implied (and outright stated in [[LooseCanon ambiguously-canon]] [[AllThereInTheManual supplementary materials]]) that he commanded the ''Enterprise''-E after Picard was promoted to admiral.
* ''Series/ThePractice'': Early in his career, Bobby put on a half-hearted defense of a man he'd been appointed to represent as a public defender, believing him to be guilty; the man was convicted of murder. The man was exonerated several years later and hired Bobby to handle his wrongful imprisonment suit, figuring he'd be motivated to atone for his own role in the conviction.
* On ''Series/LawAndOrder'', when Ben Stone was a young Assistant District Attorney, he accidentally sent privileged information over to the defense in a case he was working on that cost them the trial. The DA at the time didn't fire him, figuring Stone would be not only more prudent but also forgiving of others when they made similar blunders.
* ''Franchise/StarTrek'':
** ''Series/StarTrekTheNextGeneration'': An indirect example in the Season 7 episode "The Pegasus". Captain Picard mentions that the deciding factor that persuaded him to take on Will Riker as his XO was actually a ''reprimand'' in his record for "insubordination" (read: [[HonestAdvisor "telling a superior officer something they didn't want to hear"]]), showing Riker to be someone who cared more about doing his duty than looking good before a promotion board.
** ''Series/StarTrekDeepSpaceNine'':
*** In "Rules of Engagement" Worf was once put on trial for mistakenly firing on a Klingon civilian ship and killing everyone on board. Fortunately, it was a frame-up job and Worf did not actually kill anyone and is subsequently cleared of all charges. However, he did still fire before properly identifying his target, and Sisko rightly upbraids him for it. Sisko also tells him that this experience will probably prepare him to be a great captain.
*** Unfortunately, subverted in the later episode "Change of Heart", where Worf again breaks protocol, this time to save his otherwise-fatally-injured wife, resulting in a totally botched mission (a valuable enemy defector ends up dead). Sisko, as his superior officer, advises Worf that ''this'' failure probably means he will ''never'' be offered the position of captain. Then, "as a man who lost his wife", Sisko admits he probably would have done the exact same thing in Worf's place. He also admits that it was a mistake to put the two of them together on a mission like that in the first place.
*** This is DoubleSubverted by season 3 of ''Series/StarTrekPicard'', which shows via his rank insignia that Worf ''did'' reach the rank of captain after all. It's even heavily implied (and outright stated in [[LooseCanon ambiguously-canon]] [[AllThereInTheManual supplementary materials]]) that he commanded the ''Enterprise''-E after Picard was promoted to admiral.
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* Averted in ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyXIV''. When recruiting for Alphinaud's Crystal Braves group, one of those you pick up is Laurentius, a former member of the Wood Wailers of Gridania, who sold out to the Garleans for a bit of gil. He tells you he's willing to change and is happy for the chance to right his wrong. [[spoiler:However, it turns out that he's been bought out by Teledji Adaledji and he actively plots against you, planting a bottle that would be used to accuse you of assassinating Sultana Nanamo.]]
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* Averted {{Averted|Trope}} in ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyXIV''. When recruiting for Alphinaud's Crystal Braves group, one of those you pick up is Laurentius, a former member of the Wood Wailers of Gridania, who sold out to the Garleans for a bit of gil. He tells you he's willing to change and is happy for the chance to right his wrong. [[spoiler:However, it turns out that he's been bought out by Teledji Adaledji and he actively plots against you, planting a bottle that would be used to accuse you of assassinating Sultana Nanamo.]]
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Add a final clarifying example of how it truly is this trope.
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* This is, to some degree, the idea behind the "Blameless" paradigm in IT operations. Under this paradigm a good boss doesn't fire someone for making a mistake, even a very big one like taking down the entire website. The idea is to learn what went wrong instead, improve the processes, and ensure it doesn't happen again, usually led by the person who made the mistake or their direct supervisor. The person responsible learns the hard way not to do that thing again, as does the organization as a whole, making everyone involved better at what they do.
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* This is, to some degree, the idea behind the "Blameless" paradigm in IT operations. Under this paradigm a good boss doesn't fire someone for making a mistake, even a very big one like taking down the entire website. The idea is to learn what went wrong instead, improve the processes, and ensure it doesn't happen again, usually led by the person who made the mistake or their direct supervisor. The person responsible learns the hard way not to do that thing again, as does the organization as a whole, making everyone involved better at what they do. Answering "what was your biggest mistake" and "what was your biggest success" with the same story of "this one time I took everything down..." is a plus, not a detriment, in future interviews, at least with those who understand.
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* This is, to some degree, the idea behind the "Blameless" paradigm in IT operations. Under this paradigm a good boss doesn't fire someone for making a mistake, even a very big one like taking down the entire website. The idea is to learn what went wrong instead, improve the processes, and ensure it doesn't happen again, usually led by the person who made the mistake or their direct supervisor. The person responsible learns the hard way not to do that thing again, as does the organization.
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* This is, to some degree, the idea behind the "Blameless" paradigm in IT operations. Under this paradigm a good boss doesn't fire someone for making a mistake, even a very big one like taking down the entire website. The idea is to learn what went wrong instead, improve the processes, and ensure it doesn't happen again, usually led by the person who made the mistake or their direct supervisor. The person responsible learns the hard way not to do that thing again, as does the organization.organization as a whole, making everyone involved better at what they do.
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* This is, to some degree, the idea behind the "Blameless" paradigm in IT operations. Under this paradigm a good boss doesn't fire someone for making a mistake, even a very big one like taking down the entire website. The idea is to learn what went wrong instead, improve the processes, and ensure it doesn't happen again, usually led by the person who made the mistake or their direct supervisor. The person responsible learns the hard way not to do that thing again, as does the organization.
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I am pretty sure that is only in the film.
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-->-- ''Literature/TheDevilWearsPrada''
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-->-- ''Literature/TheDevilWearsPrada''
''Film/TheDevilWearsPrada''
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**** This is DoubleSubverted by season 3 of ''Series/StarTrekPicard'', which shows via his rank insignia that Worf ''did'' reach the rank of captain after all. It's even heavily implied (and outright stated in [[LooseCanon ambiguously-canon]] [[AllThereInTheManual supplementary materials]]) that he commanded the ''Enterprise''-E after Picard was promoted to admiral.
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->''"I called over there for a reference, left word with some snooty girl, next thing you know I got a fax from Miranda Priestly saying that of all the assistants she ever hired, you were by far her biggest disappointment... And [[ArsonMurderAndLifesaving if I don't hire you, I'm an idiot]]. You must have done something right."''
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->''"I called over there for a reference, left word with some snooty girl, next thing you know I got a fax from Miranda Priestly saying that of all the assistants she ever hired, you were by far her biggest disappointment... And [[ArsonMurderAndLifesaving if I don't hire you, I'm an idiot]].idiot. You must have done something right."''
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* Wrestling/TripleH was the only one of a group of four people to be punished for what was known as "The [=MSG=] Incident." Triple H and Wrestling/ShawnMichaels hugged Wrestling/ScottHall and Wrestling/KevinNash, who were on their way to Wrestling/{{WCW}}. Someone caught this on camera, and it quickly made the rounds. Since Hall and Nash were gone, and Michaels was the WWE Champion at the time, Triple H had to take the whole of the punishment. One would think this incident would keep him at the bottom of the card for the rest of his life, and utterly ruin him, despite Triple H's love for the business. Fast forward to today: Triple H is married to Vince [=McMahon=]'s daughter, won thirteen WWE world titles in his career and is being groomed to take over the business side of the WWE.
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* Wrestling/TripleH was the only one of a group of four people to be punished for what was known as "The [=MSG=] Incident." Triple H and Wrestling/ShawnMichaels hugged Wrestling/ScottHall and Wrestling/KevinNash, who were on their way to Wrestling/{{WCW}}. Someone caught this on camera, and it quickly made the rounds. Since Hall and Nash were gone, and Michaels was the WWE Champion at the time, Triple H had to take the whole of the punishment. One would think this incident would keep him at the bottom of the card for the rest of his life, and utterly ruin him, despite Triple H's love for the business. Fast forward to today: Triple H is married to Vince [=McMahon=]'s daughter, won thirteen WWE world titles in his career and is being groomed to take over the business side of the WWE.[[note]]By all reports, this was largely due to Triple H taking it on the chin and not complaining backstage, demonstrating his dependability. [[/note]]
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* ''Series/HellsKitchen'': OnceAnEpisode, [[TheMeanBrit Gordon Ramsey]] has the best member of the losing team reason why their teammates should either leave or stay. He then calls out the teammates whose departure was recommended and has them defend themselves. Almost all of the time, only one person is eliminated, giving the other nominated person a chance to stay and improve. Several people have gone on to win it all despite multiple nominations for elimination. On occasion, Gordon will eliminate someone who wasn't nominated (sometimes because they were on the winning team) but seriously screwed up, giving all nominees a chance to improve. Of course, if the chef ''doesn't'' shape up, they soon get the boot anyway.
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* ''Series/HellsKitchen'': OnceAnEpisode, [[TheMeanBrit Gordon Ramsey]] Ramsey has the best member of the losing team reason why their teammates should either leave or stay. He then calls out the teammates whose departure was recommended and has them defend themselves. Almost all of the time, only one person is eliminated, giving the other nominated person a chance to stay and improve. Several people have gone on to win it all despite multiple nominations for elimination. On occasion, Gordon will eliminate someone who wasn't nominated (sometimes because they were on the winning team) but seriously screwed up, giving all nominees a chance to improve. Of course, if the chef ''doesn't'' shape up, they soon get the boot anyway.
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* ''Series/HellsKitchen'': [[TheMeanBrit Gordon Ramsey]] has the best member of the losing team reason why his teammates should either leave or stay. He then calls both of these men out and has them defend themselves, and then finally picks for who ''would'' have been the elimination the actual worst player, [[spoiler: someone on the other team, who was feeling smug and relieved.]]
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* ''Series/HellsKitchen'': OnceAnEpisode, [[TheMeanBrit Gordon Ramsey]] has the best member of the losing team reason why his their teammates should either leave or stay. He then calls both of these men out the teammates whose departure was recommended and has them defend themselves, and then finally picks for who ''would'' have been themselves. Almost all of the elimination the actual worst player, [[spoiler: someone on time, only one person is eliminated, giving the other team, nominated person a chance to stay and improve. Several people have gone on to win it all despite multiple nominations for elimination. On occasion, Gordon will eliminate someone who was feeling smug and relieved.]]wasn't nominated (sometimes because they were on the winning team) but seriously screwed up, giving all nominees a chance to improve. Of course, if the chef ''doesn't'' shape up, they soon get the boot anyway.
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* In ''Anime/LegendOfGalacticHeroes'', this is one of Reinhard von Lohengramm's most admirable traits: when a subordinate fails him, he just tells him that he knows the subordinate learned his lesson and will do better next time. He is universally right in his judgment. [[note]]He wasn't always like that. The first time Reinhard wanted to punish an officer who caused him to lose a battle, his best friend and living conscience, Kircheis, pleaded to him not to do it. Reinhard listened to his advice and learned the lesson.[[/note]]
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* In ''Anime/LegendOfGalacticHeroes'', ''Literature/LegendOfTheGalacticHeroes'', this is one of Reinhard von Lohengramm's most admirable traits: when a subordinate fails him, he just tells him that he knows the subordinate learned his lesson and will do better next time. He is universally right in his judgment. [[note]]He wasn't always like that. The first time Reinhard wanted to punish an officer who caused him to lose a battle, his best friend and living conscience, Kircheis, pleaded to him not to do it. Reinhard listened to his advice and learned the lesson.[[/note]]
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* Averted in ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyXIV''. When recruiting for Alphinaud's Crystal Braves group, one of those you pick up is Laurentius, a former member of the Wail Walkers of Gridania, who sold out to the Garleans for a bit of gil. He tells you he's willing to change and is happy for the chance to right his wrong. [[spoiler:However, it turns out that he's been bought out by Teledji Adaledji and he actively plots against you, planting a bottle that would be used to accuse you of assassinating Sultana Nanamo.]]
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* Averted in ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyXIV''. When recruiting for Alphinaud's Crystal Braves group, one of those you pick up is Laurentius, a former member of the Wail Walkers Wood Wailers of Gridania, who sold out to the Garleans for a bit of gil. He tells you he's willing to change and is happy for the chance to right his wrong. [[spoiler:However, it turns out that he's been bought out by Teledji Adaledji and he actively plots against you, planting a bottle that would be used to accuse you of assassinating Sultana Nanamo.]]
