An idea is powerful thing. It is also a very fragile thing. I would even suggest that the weight of the idea is inversely proportional to it’s fragility. It’s not uncommon at all for ideas to killed. Some of the usual suspects for an idea’s demise used to be a “rule by comity” situation (too many cooks really do spoil the soup) or a situation where there is only consistent negative feed back (‘you can’t do that because’, ‘you’ll never get the resources’, etc) but there certainly are more situations that are guilty of idea killing.
I found this image that very cleverly illustrates the “Death of an Idea” concept. I don’t know who the original artist is, or even what the original source of the image is, so if anybody can shed some light on this for me please let me know and I’ll give credit where credit is due.
Nothing will hack your idea to bits more than someone who thinks he creative.
Nothing sinks it's teeth into an idea faster than a creative review.
Nothing will pounce an an idea faster than an unwanted new direction.
Nothing devours an idea like poor marketing.
Nothing will sink an idea faster than legal issues.
Nothing will stick it to an idea like global branding.
Nothing flushes an idea like a poor email trail.
Nothing takes of the head off an idea like budget cuts.
December 10, 2009
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