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Q6: Sometimes, a person is hesitant to present a breakthrough idea because their idea may get stolen or used by someone else. How can this situation be avoided and trust be built? http://www.via-cc.at...
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John Furrier
Ideas are a dime a dozen execution is key
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Dorie Clark
A6: The best defense against your idea being stolen is to claim it in the public imagination by writing about it & sharing it. If you write a book called "Lean In," someone is going to say, hey, isn't that @SherylSandberg's? @IBMSocialBiz
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Mark Babbitt
A6: Protectionism is an Industrial Age obstacle; a barrier to success. In the Social Age, we don’t own ideas… we create conversation around them.
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Tamara McCleary
A6) Any decision made out of fear is a wrong decision. If we live our life based on that principle we would never do anything great.
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Elizabeth Kvedar
@furrier great point, an idea is nothing unless you take action
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Amber Armstrong
@MarkSBabbitt we just discussed this last week
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Dorie Clark
A6: You make your ideas bigger in scale by sharing them; you might lose hundreds to make millions because more people know who you are & seek you out. @IBMSocialBiz
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Wyatt Urmey
I've never seen a secret idea actually succeed, have you?
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Mark Babbitt
A6: Our fear of losing control – of what we think, say and do – is crippling. If your idea is THAT good, sharing will only make it better.
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Tamara McCleary
Agree with you 100% @marksbabbitt
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Amber Armstrong
I think ideal stealers are quickly known to the org. dea winners need a team and to share the stage
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Tony Faustino
.@IBMSocialBiz This goes to @marksbabbitt pt about our network & relationship strength; True Story: Someone on #Amazon fashioned his book title like @annhandley's Everybody Writes. Ann let us know on FB & within minutes we trashed his book in reviews.
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Mark Babbitt
A6: Trust is built by recognizing those who came up with the big idea in the first place. Does your team trust you?
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Jerry Chuaypradit
@dorieclark Publicizing it is really spot-on. People who might want to steal the idea will certainly be deterred by having a name already associated with it.
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Wayne Hendry
@MarkSBabbitt Agree totally! And it also inhibits the secret sauce: collaboration!
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Ashok Nellikar
we cant have timid ideators, they stall the plan
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Mark Babbitt
A6: If someone on your team refuses to share their best ideas… maybe they don’t belong on your team? Attrition is our best friend.
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Chris Yaldezian
@MarkSBabbitt Right, but once the idea is productized (the result of the idea) that is owned.
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Jim @ CWPBIZ
@MarkSBabbitt I like the notion of that, however...I'm not sure how well it holds up in practice. We didn't know what @Crowdchatapp app was until @furrier was "ready" to share the idea. What about being "first to market?"
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Wyatt Urmey
We don't know what happens when we tell; we know exactly what happens if not:Nothing
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Chris Yaldezian
@furrier Absolutely!
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Jerry Chuaypradit
@WyattJU I'm trying to think of one, but I can't. Successful ideas really are a result of collaboration.
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Chris Gaffney
@CWPBIZ When you're part of a team, your ideas are part of the team. If you want to start your own thing, quit the team.
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Ashok Nellikar
you @ibmsocialbiz building trust is a long journey and if you hv picked up a person who doesnt trust you then you better let him go
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Jim @ CWPBIZ
@MarkSBabbitt Ahh.. sorry, I didn't realize we were speaking in the context of an "internal team."
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Shannon
Fear is the killer of dreams and ideas. Sharing the Big Idea with others means you give voice to the fear and crush it anyway.
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Jim @ CWPBIZ
@GaffneyCh Indeed... I was speaking from the context of external..not "internal team." I missed that context.