How do you or your company respond to new ideas? Does your executive team hold “Ideation sessions” regularly? Do you do team huddles and review all aspects of the business and hold yourselves and the company accountable? Do you celebrate the new?
Do you embrace the thoughts of others? As a leader, it is our job to raise up those around us. To seek new ideas, new processes that make the company better, stronger and more profitable.

I remember an article, “what CEO’s are afraid of”. Number one was imposter syndrome. Supposedly, many executives biggest fear is to be found incompetent. Being a little older, we used to call this “The Peter Principle”. One of the reasons that most innovative companies were never structured as organizational Hierarchies.

I work with more nimble entities. Many times,
these leaders fear risk. They fear the risk of moving to aggressively, deploying too much capital. However, they still take action. I have not encountered this phenomenon till recently.

A friend of mine is “stuck” inside a large company. He was brought in to make changes, yet every suggestion, every proposal, every idea is met with hostility or fear. What do you do when you are the innovation guru, and the C-Suite despises innovation?