Let Your People Go Doug Hall, president of Richard Saunders International, told us how to invent new products with the Sears Catalog . Some of you tried it with some success, I'm sure. They all stared at me as if I were nuts. Doug has this advice.
People are scared of giving an idea for fear of being judged.
You have the people there. You just gotta let them go. You gotta change the barriers, you gotta change the restrictions. They gotta work under slightly different restrictions. Many management people act more as a judge and jury instead of a cheerleader for the hopes.