We don’t know what we don’t know. So how can we expect a new idea to be accepted with fanfare and excitement when the outcome is not familiar and likely requires some adjustment on the part of ideas?
When teams engage in discussion and brainstorm to improve, grow, or transform, there will always be many new ideas thrown out that may seem so far-fetched. It may even be a fresh take on an art form. But, how many new ideas were likely not well accepted when first introduced? Consider Picasso, or the designer who walked into Apple’s boardroom suggesting a piece of glass was the future of communication and all things mobile, or that there was no need to visit a video store to watch a movie at home when you choose to watch it Out there, and likely not well received at first.
There is only one inherently terrible idea: the one that we do not share in fear of reprisal. Share your thoughts. You may be concealing your inner genius.
