If you think your people "don’t have ideas," you’re wrong. They have thousands—you’re just not hearing them. Jeremy Eden and Terri Long walk through 14 reasons employees stay silent, from fear of looking foolish to decision-makers playing corporate whack-a-mole. You’ll learn how to create incentives, safety, and processes that help great ideas surface before consultants have to dig them out.

Highlights

• Why leaders misjudge their employees’ creativity and commitment
• The real risks employees see when they suggest changes
• How lack of access, analysis help, and collaboration blocks ideas
• Why habit and normalization hide obvious problems
• The impact of "that’s not my job" and limited big-picture understanding
• How to move beyond a small "go-to" group and involve more people

Connect

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(00:00) Employees have ideas—so why hire consultants?

(02:30) No upside, real risk: why people stay quiet

(04:15) Fear of looking foolish or exposing the boss

(05:10) No access to decision-makers

(06:00) Ideas need analysis and collaboration

(07:30) Disengagement and “not my problem”

(08:40) Getting used to bad processes

(09:55) No training or priority for ideas

(10:30) Corporate “whack-a-mole” decision-making

(11:20) “Nobody listens anyway”

(12:10) “That’s not my job” and staying in your lane

(13:10) Missing the big picture and process view

(14:30) Only a few people own “continuous improvement”

(16:10) How to design a process that unlocks ideas

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