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Harvard Business Review says "Let your Workers Rebel"! https://hbr.org/cover-story/2016/10/let-your-workers-rebel Excerpt: Few leaders actively  encourage deviant behavior in their employees ; most go to great lengths to get rid of it. Yet nonconformity promotes innovation, improves performance, and can enhance a person’s standing more than conformity can. For example,  research  I conducted with Silvia Bellezza, of Columbia, and Anat Keinan, of Harvard, showed that observers judge a keynote speaker who wears red sneakers, a CEO who makes the rounds of Wall Street in a hoodie and jeans, and a presenter who creates her own PowerPoint template rather than using her company’s as having higher status than counterparts who conform to business norms.

https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/office-politics-make-best-people-quit-oleg-vishnepolsky/ Sure signs that you work in a healthy environment free from toxic politics. 1) Leadership is open, fair, authentic, honest, friendly and supportive. 2) Failures and mistakes are treated as lessons. Finger-pointing is frowned upon. 3) Employees are trusted and empowered. 4) People are promoted and rewarded on the basis of their accomplishments, not political favors. 5) Leadership takes real risks for employees, stands up for them, gets them what they need, is there for them when they run into problems. 6) Best ideas win. 7) Employees come first.