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If you're CEO of a 60k person company, are you going to listen to every single new idea that comes into the head of all your employees?
by andreilys 6y ago
If you're CEO of a 60k person company, are you going to listen to every single new idea that comes into the head of all your employees?
- pmiller2 6y agoThat depends. Did I tell 60,000 people to come up with new ideas and send them to me? Am I talking on the phone to someone who says they have a new idea? And, after I give that person their 5 minutes (or whatever), does it sound like a marketable product idea?
- andreilys 6y ago5 * 60k = 300k minutes (or 200+ days), so it would take you the better half of a year to listen to every single idea. Typically these things are sold up the management chain which can exercise discretion on which ideas are good and which are not. In this case the Janitor had nothing to lose by going directly to the CEO since I doubt his manager had much clout to sell this up the chain
- I-M-S 6y agoNot every employee is going to have an idea. Having established an "idea box" in a 5,000 person company, I'm inclined to say 1 out of a 100 might.
- pmiller2 6y agoBingo. And, not everyone with an idea will speak up, for whatever reason. It's exactly like the lurker vs poster phenomenon, where, in any online community of any size, there tends to be vastly more lurkers than posters.
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- mempko 6y agoNow you recognize the problem with a huge company that has to rely on the decisions of one person. CEOs don't scale. I mean, they scale in making large decisions, but they don't scale in making the best decisions with the most information.