When you start to realise just how stupid, stubborn, envious and malicious most humans are, the thing that always amazes me is that we have actually managed to get as far as we have - what with everybody constantly sabotaging each other all the time. 🤷🏻♂
So very true… and when stop starting realising that… it’s just quite sad actually… But there obviously is some “good” envy, malice, dishonest etc. because we are still here… But I can’t understand how some, or in matter of fact, many people can even sleep at nights, at all… But, yea.. I don’t know… Many people are just strange… well, that from my perspective…
Yeah saw this pattern over a 40 year career. Wised up after awhile, when I saw a need for new software often times I would write it on the weekends and then have a small software company sell it to the company I was working for. It was a “genius” idea if an exec bought the software, but it was mocked if in-house software developers wrote it. It worked out well for everyone. Another trick for getting your ideas implemented is to make friends with the management consultants the execs hired and give them your ideas (and research) to present as their own to the execs, this works particularly well for “soft” things like organizational structures. This only works if you keep your lips zipped. So glad to be officially retired now!
I stopped sharing my ideas with people years ago and now just work on creating and implementing them myself. Every time I would come up with something that would alter a business or reorganize or improve efficiency it was shot down, then 6 to 12 months later the "leadership" will have a revelation and implement the idea as if they came up with it.
Respect. But that is a hard path to walk. Every time you risk attack by others so you must also be adept at dodging attacks. You are also not profiting from your ideas which is not ideal.
@michaelnurse9089 I have learned to choose what I'm ok with giving away, knowing I won't get credit vs the ideas that I know are impactful. I have found ways to profit from my ideas. Like cresting designs for 3d printing and selling the files since not everyone can come up with designs.
I got hired into a program manager role at my company and tried to figure out the lay of the land for a good 6 months before I tried to introduce any “new ideas”..test the waters first before you begin trying to overhaul anything lol. Just ride the waves and take it day by day.
@@gyorgygajdos1657 some people don’t enjoy being a self serving jerk who’s is always looking to gain status they don’t deserve by by any means. For those people corporate world is a hell.
This concept is at the heart of my bottomless despair at the state of humankind. The cant, dishonesty and total lack of self-awareness. This shone through like never before during the pandemic, and I will never again be able to maintain the illusion that people as a whole are open-minded, intellectually honest or fundamentally decent. God bless those exceptions to the rule.
Totally agree! I’ve experienced the same and it changed my whole perspective on living my life in this ‘society’. I never forget how my friend and me had to quickly dry his young children in the snow outside of the swimming pool because we had no QR-code, while all ‘vaxxt ‘ people were drinking hot chocolade inside laughing at us. I’m still the same guy, but only for my closest family and friends (< 10). I understand your view from the same experience.
I feel this deeply. It's happened to me creating automations, building front end databases for generating customer emails, and even moving broadly distrusted user guides from old Word formats to flashy InDesign documents to encourage more use. You either get pushed out because others are threatened or live long enough to see everyone take it for granted and just move on. I wish there were a positive message in this, but I can't think of one. I for one have just learned to keep ideas to myself and channel them into passion projects outside of work.
Humans can be very frustrating. I’m sorry this happened to you. It sounds completely unfair. I’ve been working for myself for 11 years. Got lonely and started working at other companies this year. Now I’m realizing I’m better off feeling lonely, but liberated.
@@lanatheyogiLoneliness is an epidemic in the West now. Check out some groups/activities like Church singles, Meals on Wheels, bowling teams, etc. Things that are positive for the world, serving the community. etc. I’m having a really rough patch with my health now, but I will definitely use this post to tell myself to follow this advice.
@@lanatheyogi that has been the story of my career too. I’ve gotten good advice to start my own business, and that might be the best place for real idea people. Yet I never did it. Don’t use your work experience to do your own thing though. The people that came after you at work will sabotage you there too. I don’t even mind the loneliness. I do not need to be around people unless it has a purpose. I never got good at mindless chit chat and schmoozing because I didn’t like it. And didn’t like is not a strong enough word. If it’s necessary to be charming, likable, and carry on with the blah blah blah I do it for relationships out in public. But I loath it to get ahead in the workplace. At work, that’s all schmoozing is for: to get ahead.
A British comedian Frankie Howerd said something very true: 'Always aim for the top, because that's the furthest you can get from the reality of what's going on'. From long and bitter experience, I know those in charge don't want to hear the truth. That means their followers don't either. It's often this awareness of practicality and reality that keeps the rest of us at the bottom, never mind.
Started a job in process controls with no experience. Gave an idea of using a screen that rotates using technology that a phone uses. Some people said that it wouldn't work, or would be too expensive. A couple days later a guy told me that was a good idea. Then the people who said it wasn't, said it was. The raised eyebrow and question mark went through my thoughts.
be careful about who you share your ideas with, managers/coworkers will steal your idea and pretend you had nothing to do with it. Implement the idea yourself first than tell peoplr about it.
Yeah, I know people like that. It's all priced in and expected. Corporations are sometimes struck by the need to shake things up, because stagnation leads to death, so they deliberately seek an agent of chaos (typically a CIO or COO, maybe a compliance officer or programme director). The appetite for chaos reaches the point of satiation and that agent is no longer a good fit. Seen it time and again. There's always somewhere for them to go, a business that is in a different part of the organisational lifecycle.
First! Keep it up Rich. Being in the corporate jungle I appreciate your content. While many of the concepts align with my instincts and common sense, its very helpful to get this extra layer of validation :-)
The process whereby an internal new idea is ignored, it gets passed on to the super consultant who restates it; and then he/she is hailed as a mega genius. Branding an idea is crucial sometimes.
If you want something to be quickly adopted, it's better to give the idea to a consultant and get it accepted quickly, and settle for taking the credit for bringing in the consultant. It's like derivatives trading - in normal times it limits the downside risk while taking away some of the upside.
Oh yes 100% man.. The hardest part is having a brilliant billion dollar idea & not being able to talk about it because you know how these things go.. How does one go about this? Kickstarter?
A huge Danger is the CEO and the top brass of the company really do want more efficiency and more profits. However, rightly or wrongly, everyone below them in the organization fears change and new ideas. Be careful about believing that the ENTIRE organization welcomes new ideas. In reality, it is a small contingent of the top brass and those employees below them who have such strong skills they do not fear change.
Most employees are smart enough to know that it is their job is always a target for cost savings. They are fighting for survival or, for some, a cushy daily work experience.
Thank for the video. I'm a 29 yo mechanical engineer working in a company for 5 years, I feel what you describe. Honestly, I don't care if my company crash. The problem is that I work on a very important device for my nation, so I want to do every thing possible to make it work. The current design is shit. I mean litterally. Every test fails. I came with disruptive ideas, in order to change the design. Like you said. I got mocked, then attaked, not to mention that I got 0 support by my team and hiérarchy. But i'am a stubborn person, and felt some kind of pride imagining thoses fools behing humiliated by the demonstration of how adequate my suggestion was. So I worked, alone, finding budget by myself, finding isolanted allies and After one year, came up with a prototype, tested and perfectly functionnal. I skipped all the hiérarchy and put the report on the top chief program desk. And he said: "excellent work. We are doing this. " Good end you thing ? I'm seriously considering leaving the company. As a naive arrogant but extremly créative, I was thinking I could earn respect by such action, showing perseverance and great intuition. Absolutly not. Most of people are just good to do what their being told. I'm a just a mad anarchist for them. They apply my idea, like if it always have been the baseline. Not a single thanks you. And like I said, even my manager dont reward me. I aint getting promoted because I cause trouble. Problem is: the system is still shit, there is a lot of problem that need to be fixed. And god, I have ideas. But this is not rewarding at all, and it is kinda a toxic situation. In the other hand, I Like the idea of tanking all the negativity and see their face when the boss support my idea. But it is unsustainable, I Know it. Dont Know what to do.... Very interested by your next video
I feel you, in w similar boat myself. I’m lucky that I was able to manuever with the help of some actually smart very senior people who saw value in what I was bringing to the table. But mediocrity is a plague and non mediocre people are the only ones who suffocate in it
@@Texa8 Courage my friend. I think getting the support of a high ranking senior expert is the best strategy in out situation. Sheeps will listen to him. But they are not eternal, and we have to be carefull what happen after they retire.
I use ideas to make my work easy, optimized, say nothing about improvement. Work at 25 percent capacity, save my energy for side clients and family time. 😂 I've saved companies hundreds of thousands in the past and all I ever got was a slight raise barely beating inflation. I've gotten much more just by being social with the right people. And slobbering the bosses ego. 😂
I call this witch hunting. On social media it's multiplied. You also get attacked for doing something good. This I don't understand though, but I learned my lesson to not do it.
Pandemic response. Have you noticed how stupid ideas are much more readily accepted by the masses? It's like you can measure how good an idea is by how strongly it's subjected to the forces Rich talks about.
I suppose one of the more interesting aspects of this tendency is how unwilling people are to just say they dont know whether a new idea is good or not. Seems like it should be really easy, but no
Great observation -- of course, I knew it all along 😊😊😊 Related to new ideas, I highly recommend to watch at least a couple of snippets of the psychology of creativity by Jordan Peterson, how difficult it is living with high amounts of creativity.
So true 4:45 onwards. People want to appear smart. When they feel outnumbered (like on youtube, commenting on videos), when they feel like they are in front of a live group (live video streaming chat), when they are at the office, when they are in academia resting on their laurels for tenure, when they get tired of a new generation of young people and don't want any ideas except their own to be used for group, corporate, or social advancement.......it happens. If they don't know you individually, it happens. If they never allow themselves to advance with new skills and you happen to have better skills but are an outlier......its bound to happen. If you're the wrong race or wrong gender....it "might happen" unless you have a well-known buddy or backer who appears along with you at the dawn of the first suggestion (think shark tank or Elon Musk). I've had to "work in silence" on my own plans so much that at this point I've determined in my case, I really should live in another country outside of the USA that respects my intended field(s) of talent. Or at least try to move there before I pass.
Thanks, more in depth videos on this are very welcome. It all rings true. It's often not the best ideas but the one who brings it that decides direction. I'm especially curious where this negativity towards changing things comes from. Companies are often like a wall, you can't get through. Now I just invest my free time and some money to make changes that make my work easier. I do physical labor so all my efforts into improving things translate to less strain on my back. The company doesn't care but it's funny that customers compliment me that I made the work much easier then all the people that did the job before me.
It depends on your career strategy. Yes, if you give an idea to a senior person, and it's good, once they figure that out they are going to take it. If you're smart about this, you can ride their coat-tails to the top, where you'll be ready with the stiletto.
If you create a spark, light a match which burns down a forest it's your fault. If you create a spark, create an idea which creates an industry you get nothing.
Rich, I would love to hear if you have any thoughts about which is the better approach for your career (not necessarily the organization) - pushing through and getting done more projects at the expense of running the risk that there are flaws in the process, result, people not 100% on board, stepping on some toes in the process etc. but implementation is just good enough or rather really make sure that you have done really thorough preparation, research, have all necessary resources fully allocated for the project but at the cost that you'd take forever to get started on anything, most projects wouldn't even get started, you'd not really be seen as go-getter etc. Would love a video on this topic, as I'm not sure I'm doing what's right for me in this regard 🙂
Have sent your videos to my sister. I call you the “corporate guru” 😂! Hope not only men watch you. I am a woman and love the videos. After a decade working with innovation in multinational companies I simply gave it up. People love to talk about innovating but hate doing it. Keep posting your amazing videos.
I worked at a big tech company in FAANG. We were put into groups to come up with new ideas, services and products. Some teams were able to continue building, products internal to the company or start their own companies. So, I took it very seriously. After a few months and countless ideas I came up with something that was genuinely useful and hasn’t been done yet. When I went in front id the committee that decides if we can pursue our idea (these committee members were not technical founders or builders by the way), they talked my idea down and denied my team and I. I was a little disappointed, so we had to produce something and I ended up coming up with something that could be integrated internally. That was two years ago. I just found out that a startup has been funded tens of millions of dollars for a product based on my idea. After I was denied I doubted myself and doubted the value of my idea. I considered building it on the side anyways, but decided against it. Maybe I wasn’t the “right person” to produce the product. So, what I mean to say is, the message of this video resonates and for anyone doubting the message, I know I’m a random person on the internet, but it’s true. Even if my idea failed, I would feel 1000 times better that I at least gave it a try. Now, I’m building my next idea. I don’t have a committee holding me back and secondly, I’m not thinking so much about it because I’m just building.
I have seen it a lot. And by repetition I started to notice something. I don't mean I have come up with countless innovative tech solutions, it was much more simple than that. If looking in the eyes felt nice I recommended keeping it short, not long. At the point where the stereotype was contradicted without doubt (people started feeling good beyond expectations), in about half a second there was a micro-expression of fear. It was quite intense sometimes. I also started to notice it in other situations. Please consider that people might feel irrational fear if a stereotype is contradicted. The mocking (or some other pressure) might come from trying to avoid or postpone confronting that fear. You seem to get entangled in how something might affect careers or whatever, that is just trying to make it sound reasonable.
And people / collective history has a super-short memory span. Electric cars go back to Edison, but are just far back in time to be “new”. Another example that often comes to mind is dietary fads which just get relabeled every few years as “new” or “revolutionary”. …nothing new under the sun…
Our mind is optimized to save energy, so everything new require energy to process and if you do not have it or do not want allocate - you just disagree to be in safe place and not support something that may be wrong. It's like AI limited in time to answer, so it fallback to something cached before (may be wrong) and do not process more deep.
@@ThePallidor This also saving energy because you don't want lose something you already have and build it second time from scratch and spent energy (and time) on this =)
@@fwefhwe4232 Yeah. This might be example saving energy on business scale. Stick to more simple businesses schemas and defend them even for others they cause more energy/time/money spent) There also opposite side of this to make everything more complicated for both sides even this is not needed (cloud based solutions everywhere) just to be able make money)
Most people have very low conscientiousness when it comes to ideas. They don't care what is true or not. They only care what ideas appeal to them or otherwise re-enforce a Worldview they find convenient. That is why public discourse of ideas follows this pattern. If the conversation was only between those who cared about the truth there would be very little drama.
The reason why people attack new ideas and/or the individual casting the idea is simply because the other parties now have proof that they are inferior to the caster though internally they always felt it. Long story short they're losers and are finally facing the fact.
Can you do a video being a consultant? It seems that since consultants are paid for ideas, there might be an option where their ideas are at least heard
Point taken, but I'm going to argue from the other side. I have seen, time and time again, new ideas (and really good ideas) gain enthusiasm in my organization. The problem is that the devi is in the details. A crack team on a mission from God will start a pilot project to do the big thing, and then I have to be the bearer of bad news when I find out too late that key decisions were made in secret that were critical to the project's success. I become the naysayer, people with good ideas avoid consulting me, projects go off the rails, and I'm sure one day I'll be run out of town. Such is life.
Galileo was critizised because he wanted to change the bible based on his science. The Inquisition told him to not mix science and faith. The one guy who was absolutely mocking the church where Luther and the protestants:"look how absurd the church is, thinking that the earth is revolving around the sun, everybody sees this is NOT the case." Black myth made by english queens and kings was and IS real. Lying about the catholic church.
I don’t see many truly new ideas, I see a lot ideas presented as new, as different. It makes me wonder what these people thought of their older generations (dad, mom, granddad, grandma,…) that they were stupid? That they didn’t have ideas? So yes partly on the mocking side, but every tom dick and harry think they have a new idea
Trump decoupled. Later changed NAFTA, made deals with Vietnam, Malaysia, Japan and others. That was the first thing he did. And the tarifs. Stop lying to yourself.
You lost me at musk and electric cars. Musk is a promotion genius. Electric cars were invented before gasoline cars. The lithium battery invented for small devices was the main thing needed for electric cars. That is why they kept failing before. The reason they went mainstream is because they accelerate like a sports car while getting subsidies because they are so good for the environment. Using this whole mess as an example of new ideas…
When you start to realise just how stupid, stubborn, envious and malicious most humans are, the thing that always amazes me is that we have actually managed to get as far as we have - what with everybody constantly sabotaging each other all the time. 🤷🏻♂
So very true… and when stop starting realising that… it’s just quite sad actually… But there obviously is some “good” envy, malice, dishonest etc. because we are still here… But I can’t understand how some, or in matter of fact, many people can even sleep at nights, at all… But, yea.. I don’t know… Many people are just strange… well, that from my perspective…
Keep it secret... keep it safe. The unfortunate reality when surrounded by ambition. Another awesome video :)
Yeah saw this pattern over a 40 year career. Wised up after awhile, when I saw a need for new software often times I would write it on the weekends and then have a small software company sell it to the company I was working for. It was a “genius” idea if an exec bought the software, but it was mocked if in-house software developers wrote it. It worked out well for everyone. Another trick for getting your ideas implemented is to make friends with the management consultants the execs hired and give them your ideas (and research) to present as their own to the execs, this works particularly well for “soft” things like organizational structures. This only works if you keep your lips zipped. So glad to be officially retired now!
I love the idea of selling the concept anonymously to management!
I stopped sharing my ideas with people years ago and now just work on creating and implementing them myself.
Every time I would come up with something that would alter a business or reorganize or improve efficiency it was shot down, then 6 to 12 months later the "leadership" will have a revelation and implement the idea as if they came up with it.
Respect. But that is a hard path to walk. Every time you risk attack by others so you must also be adept at dodging attacks. You are also not profiting from your ideas which is not ideal.
@michaelnurse9089 I have learned to choose what I'm ok with giving away, knowing I won't get credit vs the ideas that I know are impactful. I have found ways to profit from my ideas. Like cresting designs for 3d printing and selling the files since not everyone can come up with designs.
I got hired into a program manager role at my company and tried to figure out the lay of the land for a good 6 months before I tried to introduce any “new ideas”..test the waters first before you begin trying to overhaul anything lol. Just ride the waves and take it day by day.
Solid advice. Learning to surf really trains you for life in general!
Other employees will either steal your idea or discredit it. Employees are like crabs in a bucket. If one starts to rise the others will pull it down.
You also need to learn manage that. You can also attack.
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@@gyorgygajdos1657 some people don’t enjoy being a self serving jerk who’s is always looking to gain status they don’t deserve by by any means. For those people corporate world is a hell.
Work is where dysfunction lives most pervasively
Great analogy. I need to remember that one.
This concept is at the heart of my bottomless despair at the state of humankind. The cant, dishonesty and total lack of self-awareness. This shone through like never before during the pandemic, and I will never again be able to maintain the illusion that people as a whole are open-minded, intellectually honest or fundamentally decent. God bless those exceptions to the rule.
Totally agree! I’ve experienced the same and it changed my whole perspective on living my life in this ‘society’. I never forget how my friend and me had to quickly dry his young children in the snow outside of the swimming pool because we had no QR-code, while all ‘vaxxt ‘ people were drinking hot chocolade inside laughing at us.
I’m still the same guy, but only for my closest family and friends (< 10). I understand your view from the same experience.
I feel this deeply. It's happened to me creating automations, building front end databases for generating customer emails, and even moving broadly distrusted user guides from old Word formats to flashy InDesign documents to encourage more use. You either get pushed out because others are threatened or live long enough to see everyone take it for granted and just move on. I wish there were a positive message in this, but I can't think of one. I for one have just learned to keep ideas to myself and channel them into passion projects outside of work.
Forewarned is forearmed.
Humans can be very frustrating. I’m sorry this happened to you. It sounds completely unfair. I’ve been working for myself for 11 years. Got lonely and started working at other companies this year. Now I’m realizing I’m better off feeling lonely, but liberated.
It's most definitely from a place of being threatened by their incompetence.
@@lanatheyogiLoneliness is an epidemic in the West now. Check out some groups/activities like Church singles, Meals on Wheels, bowling teams, etc. Things that are positive for the world, serving the community. etc. I’m having a really rough patch with my health now, but I will definitely use this post to tell myself to follow this advice.
@@lanatheyogi that has been the story of my career too. I’ve gotten good advice to start my own business, and that might be the best place for real idea people. Yet I never did it. Don’t use your work experience to do your own thing though. The people that came after you at work will sabotage you there too.
I don’t even mind the loneliness. I do not need to be around people unless it has a purpose. I never got good at mindless chit chat and schmoozing because I didn’t like it. And didn’t like is not a strong enough word. If it’s necessary to be charming, likable, and carry on with the blah blah blah I do it for relationships out in public. But I loath it to get ahead in the workplace. At work, that’s all schmoozing is for: to get ahead.
Mocking and attacking is just a normal consequence of human jealousy - "how can he/she be smarter/better than ME??"
Sure. But that does not mean they won't lie, sabotage or even kill to stop it. Normal behavior is often animalistic behavior.
A British comedian Frankie Howerd said something very true: 'Always aim for the top, because that's the furthest you can get from the reality of what's going on'. From long and bitter experience, I know those in charge don't want to hear the truth. That means their followers don't either. It's often this awareness of practicality and reality that keeps the rest of us at the bottom, never mind.
Started a job in process controls with no experience. Gave an idea of using a screen that rotates using technology that a phone uses. Some people said that it wouldn't work, or would be too expensive. A couple days later a guy told me that was a good idea. Then the people who said it wasn't, said it was. The raised eyebrow and question mark went through my thoughts.
be careful about who you share your ideas with, managers/coworkers will steal your idea and pretend you had nothing to do with it. Implement the idea yourself first than tell peoplr about it.
I have seen many people be hired to change things. They change things and then get fired.
Yeah, I know people like that. It's all priced in and expected. Corporations are sometimes struck by the need to shake things up, because stagnation leads to death, so they deliberately seek an agent of chaos (typically a CIO or COO, maybe a compliance officer or programme director). The appetite for chaos reaches the point of satiation and that agent is no longer a good fit. Seen it time and again. There's always somewhere for them to go, a business that is in a different part of the organisational lifecycle.
First! Keep it up Rich. Being in the corporate jungle I appreciate your content. While many of the concepts align with my instincts and common sense, its very helpful to get this extra layer of validation :-)
The process whereby an internal
new idea is ignored, it gets passed on to the super consultant who restates it; and then he/she is hailed as a mega genius. Branding an idea is crucial sometimes.
Agreed. So what you want to become is the super consultant because by the very nature of the role, they are going to at least hear you out.
If you want something to be quickly adopted, it's better to give the idea to a consultant and get it accepted quickly, and settle for taking the credit for bringing in the consultant. It's like derivatives trading - in normal times it limits the downside risk while taking away some of the upside.
I watch your video full.
Oh yes 100% man.. The hardest part is having a brilliant billion dollar idea & not being able to talk about it because you know how these things go.. How does one go about this? Kickstarter?
100% true. I'm on the new idea side and I'm completely ok with everyone thinking I'm crazy :)
I love your down to earth yet super authentic and straight-forward style of you as a human! Love your content, keep em coming.
A huge Danger is the CEO and the top brass of the company really do want more efficiency and more profits. However, rightly or wrongly, everyone below them in the organization fears change and new ideas. Be careful about believing that the ENTIRE organization welcomes new ideas. In reality, it is a small contingent of the top brass and those employees below them who have such strong skills they do not fear change.
Most employees are smart enough to know that it is their job is always a target for cost savings. They are fighting for survival or, for some, a cushy daily work experience.
This is Plato's allegory of the cave. People do not want their world view challenged. Been through this cycle many times.
It is about grown neurons.
Thank for the video.
I'm a 29 yo mechanical engineer working in a company for 5 years, I feel what you describe.
Honestly, I don't care if my company crash. The problem is that I work on a very important device for my nation, so I want to do every thing possible to make it work.
The current design is shit. I mean litterally. Every test fails.
I came with disruptive ideas, in order to change the design. Like you said. I got mocked, then attaked, not to mention that I got 0 support by my team and hiérarchy.
But i'am a stubborn person, and felt some kind of pride imagining thoses fools behing humiliated by the demonstration of how adequate my suggestion was.
So I worked, alone, finding budget by myself, finding isolanted allies and After one year, came up with a prototype, tested and perfectly functionnal. I skipped all the hiérarchy and put the report on the top chief program desk.
And he said: "excellent work. We are doing this. "
Good end you thing ?
I'm seriously considering leaving the company.
As a naive arrogant but extremly créative, I was thinking I could earn respect by such action, showing perseverance and great intuition.
Absolutly not. Most of people are just good to do what their being told. I'm a just a mad anarchist for them.
They apply my idea, like if it always have been the baseline. Not a single thanks you. And like I said, even my manager dont reward me. I aint getting promoted because I cause trouble.
Problem is: the system is still shit, there is a lot of problem that need to be fixed. And god, I have ideas.
But this is not rewarding at all, and it is kinda a toxic situation.
In the other hand, I Like the idea of tanking all the negativity and see their face when the boss support my idea. But it is unsustainable, I Know it.
Dont Know what to do....
Very interested by your next video
I feel you, in w similar boat myself. I’m lucky that I was able to manuever with the help of some actually smart very senior people who saw value in what I was bringing to the table. But mediocrity is a plague and non mediocre people are the only ones who suffocate in it
@@Texa8 Courage my friend.
I think getting the support of a high ranking senior expert is the best strategy in out situation. Sheeps will listen to him. But they are not eternal, and we have to be carefull what happen after they retire.
Great talk. This also touches the technology adoption life cycle, with the different archetypes
Yes, it's about maintaining the status quo. People who have power want to keep it.
Keep posting... Real talk 💯💯💥
You are 100% correct. I've experienced this situation at work a bunch of times.
Never let anyone know you're smarter than they are. They WILL punish you for it.
I use ideas to make my work easy, optimized, say nothing about improvement. Work at 25 percent capacity, save my energy for side clients and family time. 😂
I've saved companies hundreds of thousands in the past and all I ever got was a slight raise barely beating inflation.
I've gotten much more just by being social with the right people. And slobbering the bosses ego. 😂
Yes. This makes perfect sense even something unexpected arise you always have capacity to resolve it or just think about it more deeply.
Never outshine the master….
I call this witch hunting. On social media it's multiplied. You also get attacked for doing something good. This I don't understand though, but I learned my lesson to not do it.
New ideas can also be completely idiotic.
Such as quantum mechanics and the idea of an "immune system" (destroys the falsifiability of germ theory).
70 genders...
@@AS-np3yq Solar FREAKING roadways!!!
Pandemic response.
Have you noticed how stupid ideas are much more readily accepted by the masses?
It's like you can measure how good an idea is by how strongly it's subjected to the forces Rich talks about.
I suppose one of the more interesting aspects of this tendency is how unwilling people are to just say they dont know whether a new idea is good or not. Seems like it should be really easy, but no
Great observation -- of course, I knew it all along 😊😊😊
Related to new ideas, I highly recommend to watch at least a couple of snippets of the psychology of creativity by Jordan Peterson, how difficult it is living with high amounts of creativity.
Things I wish I knew 10 years ago :-)
It's like in the movie Idiocracy when he asks them if using water isn't better...
when I was in high school in the early 60s, we were told automation would make things cheaper...
So true 4:45 onwards. People want to appear smart. When they feel outnumbered (like on youtube, commenting on videos), when they feel like they are in front of a live group (live video streaming chat), when they are at the office, when they are in academia resting on their laurels for tenure, when they get tired of a new generation of young people and don't want any ideas except their own to be used for group, corporate, or social advancement.......it happens. If they don't know you individually, it happens. If they never allow themselves to advance with new skills and you happen to have better skills but are an outlier......its bound to happen. If you're the wrong race or wrong gender....it "might happen" unless you have a well-known buddy or backer who appears along with you at the dawn of the first suggestion (think shark tank or Elon Musk). I've had to "work in silence" on my own plans so much that at this point I've determined in my case, I really should live in another country outside of the USA that respects my intended field(s) of talent. Or at least try to move there before I pass.
You should. Maybe come to Ghana and see things here too. Lots of chances here for you. ❤❤
Thanks, more in depth videos on this are very welcome. It all rings true. It's often not the best ideas but the one who brings it that decides direction. I'm especially curious where this negativity towards changing things comes from.
Companies are often like a wall, you can't get through. Now I just invest my free time and some money to make changes that make my work easier. I do physical labor so all my efforts into improving things translate to less strain on my back. The company doesn't care but it's funny that customers compliment me that I made the work much easier then all the people that did the job before me.
Even prior to mocking, there’s another phase: ignoring.
I really dislike charlatans in corporations…
All truth passes through three stages, methinks... Or so it has been said.
Schopenhauer knew how this worked.
@@ThePallidor Quite a few thinkers have been accredited with this maxim. Its origin is disputed.
Imagine when this happens in academia... it's horrendous.
Oooh, that's awful. And how many professors take credit afterwards. It happened countless times in history, and it keeps happening to this day.
Often, superiors reject ideas so that they pitch them themselves later. Please don't share ideas one-on-one.
It depends on your career strategy. Yes, if you give an idea to a senior person, and it's good, once they figure that out they are going to take it. If you're smart about this, you can ride their coat-tails to the top, where you'll be ready with the stiletto.
Love your videos! Can you talk about having relatives or relationships in the work place?
I mentioned it here and there. Best to keep relationships separate unless you are willing to live dangerously 😀
Electric véhicules were tested in french market during last century. People and infrastructures were not ready AT all.
great videos
If you create a spark, light a match which burns down a forest it's your fault. If you create a spark, create an idea which creates an industry you get nothing.
Rich, I would love to hear if you have any thoughts about which is the better approach for your career (not necessarily the organization) - pushing through and getting done more projects at the expense of running the risk that there are flaws in the process, result, people not 100% on board, stepping on some toes in the process etc. but implementation is just good enough or rather really make sure that you have done really thorough preparation, research, have all necessary resources fully allocated for the project but at the cost that you'd take forever to get started on anything, most projects wouldn't even get started, you'd not really be seen as go-getter etc.
Would love a video on this topic, as I'm not sure I'm doing what's right for me in this regard 🙂
See the videos on flow and volunteering. Short answer, stepping on toes is risky.
Have sent your videos to my sister. I call you the “corporate guru” 😂! Hope not only men watch you. I am a woman and love the videos. After a decade working with innovation in multinational companies I simply gave it up. People love to talk about innovating but hate doing it. Keep posting your amazing videos.
I worked at a big tech company in FAANG. We were put into groups to come up with new ideas, services and products. Some teams were able to continue building, products internal to the company or start their own companies. So, I took it very seriously. After a few months and countless ideas I came up with something that was genuinely useful and hasn’t been done yet. When I went in front id the committee that decides if we can pursue our idea (these committee members were not technical founders or builders by the way), they talked my idea down and denied my team and I. I was a little disappointed, so we had to produce something and I ended up coming up with something that could be integrated internally. That was two years ago. I just found out that a startup has been funded tens of millions of dollars for a product based on my idea. After I was denied I doubted myself and doubted the value of my idea. I considered building it on the side anyways, but decided against it. Maybe I wasn’t the “right person” to produce the product. So, what I mean to say is, the message of this video resonates and for anyone doubting the message, I know I’m a random person on the internet, but it’s true. Even if my idea failed, I would feel 1000 times better that I at least gave it a try. Now, I’m building my next idea. I don’t have a committee holding me back and secondly, I’m not thinking so much about it because I’m just building.
I have seen it a lot. And by repetition I started to notice something.
I don't mean I have come up with countless innovative tech solutions, it was much more simple than that.
If looking in the eyes felt nice I recommended keeping it short, not long.
At the point where the stereotype was contradicted without doubt (people started feeling good beyond expectations), in about half a second there was a micro-expression of fear. It was quite intense sometimes.
I also started to notice it in other situations.
Please consider that people might feel irrational fear if a stereotype is contradicted.
The mocking (or some other pressure) might come from trying to avoid or postpone confronting that fear.
You seem to get entangled in how something might affect careers or whatever, that is just trying to make it sound reasonable.
And people / collective history has a super-short memory span. Electric cars go back to Edison, but are just far back in time to be “new”. Another example that often comes to mind is dietary fads which just get relabeled every few years as “new” or “revolutionary”.
…nothing new under the sun…
Our mind is optimized to save energy, so everything new require energy to process and if you do not have it or do not want allocate - you just disagree to be in safe place and not support something that may be wrong. It's like AI limited in time to answer, so it fallback to something cached before (may be wrong) and do not process more deep.
Someone's assets could also be threatened by your new idea
Energy saving, yes, but also reputation saving, career saving, avoiding guilt for past mistakes, etc.
@@ThePallidor This also saving energy because you don't want lose something you already have and build it second time from scratch and spent energy (and time) on this =)
commercial real estate doesnt want to lose to remote work.
@@fwefhwe4232 Yeah. This might be example saving energy on business scale. Stick to more simple businesses schemas and defend them even for others they cause more energy/time/money spent) There also opposite side of this to make everything more complicated for both sides even this is not needed (cloud based solutions everywhere) just to be able make money)
I never voice any new or helpful ideas unless I'm bailing out a friend
Nailed it homie
It horrifies me to see how badly the culture in the US has been getting. Meritocracy has been completely abandoned at all levels in society
Most people have very low conscientiousness when it comes to ideas. They don't care what is true or not. They only care what ideas appeal to them or otherwise re-enforce a Worldview they find convenient. That is why public discourse of ideas follows this pattern. If the conversation was only between those who cared about the truth there would be very little drama.
"First They Ignore You, Then They Laugh at You, Then They Attack You, Then You Win" - not sure who is author.
The reason why people attack new ideas and/or the individual casting the idea is simply because the other parties now have proof that they are inferior to the caster though internally they always felt it. Long story short they're losers and are finally facing the fact.
Bureaucracy resists high degrees of entropy.
Can you do a video being a consultant? It seems that since consultants are paid for ideas, there might be an option where their ideas are at least heard
Point taken, but I'm going to argue from the other side. I have seen, time and time again, new ideas (and really good ideas) gain enthusiasm in my organization. The problem is that the devi is in the details. A crack team on a mission from God will start a pilot project to do the big thing, and then I have to be the bearer of bad news when I find out too late that key decisions were made in secret that were critical to the project's success. I become the naysayer, people with good ideas avoid consulting me, projects go off the rails, and I'm sure one day I'll be run out of town. Such is life.
So how to manage it? I struggled with it all my life
First electric "car" was made in 1890s and back in the day, golf carts were electric.
Yep and they do not work..
People really forget or do not know history - electric cars came way before petrol cars... they are actually an older concept
The trick is always to go to your bosses bosses boss
Was it the same in Google where you worked too?
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Sir, you should seriously consider acting in Hollywood. Only you can come up with 1000 expressions on your face in less than a minute
If you are having these problems, then you are either having the wrong ideas or giving them to the wrong people/organization.
Our current brains evolved 200,00 years ago, we could have gone to the moon back then. This is why it's taken 200k years.
You're rewriting Schopenhauer. 🤪
Let's have democratic rule in corporations instead of despotic leadership! Ok, let the mocking begin...
I could have used this video about a decade ago...
Am still waiting for the poke-pushers to admit that they were wrong, but instead they have just deleted those posts.
the bandwagon effect, when the vast majority of people thinks it, it must be right.
Actually we are not revolving around the Sun. Obviously.
Gold 😂
Being an NPC gets you far in life 😅
In other words: being smart is bad in our society.
Galileo was critizised because he wanted to change the bible based on his science. The Inquisition told him to not mix science and faith.
The one guy who was absolutely mocking the church where Luther and the protestants:"look how absurd the church is, thinking that the earth is revolving around the sun, everybody sees this is NOT the case."
Black myth made by english queens and kings was and IS real. Lying about the catholic church.
Bitcoin ;)
Nowadays more than ever new ideas like hybrids or electric cars becomes a political tug of war shit show between apposing sides.
I don’t see many truly new ideas, I see a lot ideas presented as new, as different. It makes me wonder what these people thought of their older generations (dad, mom, granddad, grandma,…) that they were stupid? That they didn’t have ideas?
So yes partly on the mocking side, but every tom dick and harry think they have a new idea
You are going to be a Bitcoiner one day
Electric vehicles is not a good example as a new idea as we already had electric vehicles a century ago
Humans eh?
CEO of Toyota is right. Anyway, wan't Trump mocked for: "USA should decouple from China!" ? And now it's happening.
That doesn't mean it was a good idea. It just means he had enough backing to make it happen lmao
The guy who literally has all of his products made in China? Ok lol
@@TheFinalVenue Beijing is the initiator of decoupling and derisking, USA had to respond somehow so it was inevitable IMO
Trump decoupled. Later changed NAFTA, made deals with Vietnam, Malaysia, Japan and others. That was the first thing he did. And the tarifs.
Stop lying to yourself.
@@TheFinalVenuealmost as though decisions for the public sector and private sector are made differently
You lost me at musk and electric cars. Musk is a promotion genius. Electric cars were invented before gasoline cars. The lithium battery invented for small devices was the main thing needed for electric cars. That is why they kept failing before. The reason they went mainstream is because they accelerate like a sports car while getting subsidies because they are so good for the environment.
Using this whole mess as an example of new ideas…