Why Do Great Ideas Get Ignored?

Issue 168, July 11, 2024

How great are you at getting your ideas understood and accepted?  You’ve  been mulling over how to solve a problem for a couple of weeks now. You’ve reviewed the facts, recognized the challenges and thought long and hard about how to ensure impressive results. It has been a struggle given so many distractions with the surface noise of meetings, emails and intermittent mental exhaustion. But yesterday you woke up with the solution completely framed out in your mind. You are excited; you check your calendar and see that there is a management meeting today where you can share your ideas. As you get ready for work you make some notes that you want to share. The meeting comes and you take your moment. But all you get in return is a room full of dead stares. You deflate like a burst balloon.

What happened?

Mind Shift

We all have encountered situations at work when someone else is super enthusiastic about a new idea and/or solution but fails to communicate its value and …