Why Great Ideas Get Stuck with Fiona Stevenson
About this episode
This episode discusses the challenges organizations face in fostering an environment where innovative ideas can thrive.
Your organization probably has more good ideas than you realize. The challenge is what happens next. Employees learn quickly whether an unconventional suggestion is genuinely welcome, whether failure will be treated as information or incompetence, and whether leadership is open to an outcome it did not already choose. When those answers are unclear, people protect themselves. They offer safer ideas, wait for direction or stop speaking up entirely. In this episode, Naomi Titleman Colla speaks ...
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Host: Naomi Titleman Colla
Guest: Fiona Stevenson
Topics covered
- organizational culture
- leadership
- innovation
- employee engagement
- idea generation
Keywords
- great ideas
- employee suggestions
- leadership openness
- failure acceptance
- organizational dynamics
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