Why Great Ideas Die on Managers’ Desks — and How to Save Them
研究发现，管理者因固守常规而拒绝员工的新颖建议，但拥有多元职业网络的管理者更易识别和支持突破性创新，建议通过促进网络协作来提升开放性。
When managers dismiss their employees’ most innovative suggestions, the problem isn’t just resistance to change: Truly novel ideas feel risky and impractical to leaders stuck in familiar patterns. This article reveals a powerful insight: Managers with diverse professional networks are more likely to recognize and support breakthrough innovations. Key strategies for increasing people’s openness to new ideas include supporting manager and employee networking and cross-functional collaboration.