Comments on: Your idea, My idea, why’s everyone so paranoid?

By: The Idea Virus - Tyler Reed

The Idea Virus - Tyler Reed — Tue, 07 Aug 2007 09:20:59 +0000

[...] Others opinions and insights: Stefano Sessa – Your ideas are worthless! Uno De Waal – Product: Sharing your ideas Michael Chadbourne – Ownership of Ideas Allan Kent – Ideasâ€¦ Nic Haralambous – Your idea, My idea, whyâ€™s everyone so paranoid? [...]

By: Nic

Nic — Mon, 06 Aug 2007 10:22:13 +0000

Stefano: Good point, very true.

By: stefano

stefano — Mon, 06 Aug 2007 10:19:21 +0000

An idea to implement something somewhere, is still an idea. It could also be a great idea if it improves on current processes. If someone nicks it before you deliver, it = unethical. Remember my viewpoint stems from an internal situation. People are quick to delegate responsibilities, but slack when it comes to delegating credit.

By: Allan

Allan — Mon, 06 Aug 2007 07:55:18 +0000

Nic – couldn’t agree more. I actually went off on a bit of a tangent from the point of Tyler’s original post, to make a similar point to what you have just made – that ideas are not original, and it’s more the execution of the idea than the idea itself that gets rewarded. I think where Tyler got shafted (and I’m guessing this from the content and tone of his post, so I could be completely off base) is that he shared and collaborated with certain people and they took the ideas that came out of that and implemented them without a tip of the hat back to him. As I say, that’s the way that I read it and I could be wrong. I’m all for collaboration and sharing of ideas – the more companies that are out there pushing their clients into “new media” the better for all of us. But give credit where credit is due.