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Practices Preventing Idea
Generation by Employees
in Hierarchical Structures and
Losing Organizations
According to Jason Jennings and
Laurence Haughton, the authors
of
It's not the big that eat the
small... it's the fast that eat
the slow
→ Hijacking of ideas by the time they make
it up the corporate ladder – when that happens, workers retaliate by
keeping good ideas to themselves, thus slowing down the organization's
thinking
→ Taking away sharp edges of ideas while
they pass up through a hierarchical structure – when their ideas get
honed down to something that doesn't mean anything, people become
discouraged and state that they either don't have the time or interest
in putting forth their ideas
→ Human
barriers to
change – rejecting good ideas that may change the status quo and
thus threaten personal interests of a corporate 'gatekeeper'
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