Over the years I’ve noticed (and written about) a handful of highly effective ways in which ideas may be murdered.
A regular and particularly lethal one is to form a committee.
As Sir Barnett Cox (a former Clerk of the House of Commons) famously observed: “A committee is a cul-de-sac down which ideas are lured, then quietly strangled.”
Which are your favourite ways?
(By the way, I notice that several things that I wrote – including a piece called “Ways to murder an idea” – are included verbatim in various British government websites on creativity and innovation, completely uncredited. Should I be flattered or pissed off?)
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