The nature of creativity is also that the more creative and innovative we are the more resistance we get since it goes against the known. Most people don't like to be questioned either since they take it personal. I was involved in some very interesting discussions about idea generation and innovation when working at IBM.

One woman came up with an idea that the creator and the event or meeting should be tracked from the first conversation when the idea was expressed. I thought it was a great idea and we discussed about using a simple tool with a quick link to track it back to the source and who was involved in contributing. There are many meetings which is great for idea generation but most of the leaders who inspires and fight for having open creative meetings without a strict business agenda are seldom getting feedback on their impact in the organisations. The reason is that most of those informal meetings are not taken notes and action points from and the people are usually hesitating to go beyond their comfort zones. Their ideas are in best case popping again and in another forum or by someone who is "stealing" it.

Thanks your article inspired me to contact my former IBM colleague
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As I mentioned academia is another area. How many people have for instance bought their MBA's? an abundance, unfortunately. Have you ever thought about the fact truly successful people are the ones that are truly innovative, experiment and passionately work to make their idea succeed?

This was an intresting post i would like to comment the untouched part of the discussion ‘Creativity’ , because lack of creativity has lead to parroting not only in social media but in evry sphere , business academics n evrywhr just because the world around you is so much result oriented that people cannot afford to be experimental and original . Today mass is much concerned about whats in and whats out , they are least concerned about the vital part of being human,” what is right and whats wrong ” this is the basic practice that the common mass is following evrywhere, because people find it easy to follow what they find is successfull around them , wthr its about business, social media or somewhere else , Because people today have very deep feeling tht , ‘Nobody remembers the second person who landed on moon. ‘ Thats why people dont afford to be creative today resulting in promoting parroting .