HOW TO KILL GOOD IDEAS
Here are 10 tried and trusted ways to kill good ideas and enthusiasm of your co-workers.
(1) It's against company policy.
(2) It doesn't fit the system.
(3) It will never be approved.
(4) The timing just isn't right.
(5) It didn't work before.
(6) It's too wild.
(7) We're not ready for that.
(8) I will think about it.
(9) Put something in writing and get back to me.
(10) Let's form a committee.
When you kill somebody's good idea, you kill a little of that person too!
extracted from 'Management Thoughts' by Promod Batra, Golden Book Centre Sdn Bhd, reprinted 1995
Here are 10 tried and trusted ways to kill good ideas and enthusiasm of your co-workers.
(1) It's against company policy.
(2) It doesn't fit the system.
(3) It will never be approved.
(4) The timing just isn't right.
(5) It didn't work before.
(6) It's too wild.
(7) We're not ready for that.
(8) I will think about it.
(9) Put something in writing and get back to me.
(10) Let's form a committee.
When you kill somebody's good idea, you kill a little of that person too!
extracted from 'Management Thoughts' by Promod Batra, Golden Book Centre Sdn Bhd, reprinted 1995
Absence sharpens love, presence strengthens it - English Proverb
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