Wrong Ideas Are a Progress

Mediocre people need not be completely original. Some of the world's most successful ideas weren't exactly original. They were combinations of two or more old ideas, that clicked due to effort, persistence, timing, and luck. Try to push an idea even if it's not exactly gold.

Employees may refrain from speaking up because they:

• Fear being ostracised
• Don't want to be embarrassed
• Want to avoid negative remarks
• Feel like speaking up is inappropriate

They may decide to hold back an idea that is not thought out thorough...

Learning ideas are useful to a point. To make a general idea useful, some key obstacles need to be overcome:

• We need to notice the idea in other contexts. Research found that people tend not to apply patterns they learn to different domains unless prompted.
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