Why People Reject Your Ideas? Watch The TedTalk!
Gijsbertus J.J. van Wulfen
Innovation keynote speaker, Number One Thought Leader Design Thinking 2024, LinkedIn Top Voice helping you and your organisation, to become amazing innovators with keynotes, workshops, and a proven innovation method.
People reject new ideas because they are not theirs, as we only really love things we made ourselves, like our children. The only way to get ideas accepted is to co-create or WEnnovate, creating new ideas together and stretching your comfort zones. Watch the TEDx Talk to Learn here why …
People are always so critical when you suggest or do something new. Something that they don’t expect. Something that’s never been done before. Why?
“Because you reach the end of their comfort zones”.
Your comfort zone is like a rubber band. Within the rubber band is your own safe psychological space of values, habits, and certainties. The rubber band symbolises your limits. Every time you think something new, learn something new or do something you never done before, your comfort zone stretches and expands. You got the picture. Great!
?Now there are two types of creators: Creators who want to break your rubber band and creators who want to stretch it.
?We have a wonderful name for creators who want to shock us! We call them (provoking) artists. Like Michelangelo, who shocked people by painting the ceiling of Sistine Chapel in 1541 with nude bodies hardly covered. Or almost 500 years later another Italian artist, Maurizio Cattelan, duct-taped a banana to the wall at Art Basel and sold it for € 120.000.
?Artists don’t mind people rejecting their ideas because that’s most of the time their intention. They want to shock us to make us think.
And then there are the creators who generate impact by stretching our comfort zone to provide us a better future. We call them innovators. People like you and me, who want to create new positive impact for a better world.
?As innovators, we also get a lot of NO’s:
No, it’s impossible. No, we’ve tried that before. No, we don’t have time for this. No, our customers won’t like it. No, it doesn’t fit the strategy. No, the CEO will never say yes to it. No, it’s not in the budget. No, it’s not our responsibility.? No, it takes too long. No, there’s no business model.
?You can invent alone, but unfortunately you cannot innovate alone. Innovation is transforming new ideas into reality. How many people you need? To go from idea to reality in your professional life? Think of all the people who are involved in developing, testing, financing, producing and in selling your new concept. It will be at least 5, 10, 50, or 100 people or more when you work in industry in a big corporate. Doesn’t it?
?The big issue though is that, as Peter Druecker already told us in the 1960s, most managers have been chosen for their ability to do better instead of their courage to do differently. That’s why when you ask persons why their innovation project was stopped, A LACK OF MANAGEMENT SUPPORT is the major reason. Fellow managers and top executives are rejecting your new ideas. The enemy of new ideas is inside your organisation: it is your colleagues and bosses. WHY?
Why do people reject new ideas …?
?May I ask you a personal question …?
GREAT!
?Do you have children, or nephews and nieces?
Do you like your children, or nephews and nieces?
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Do you love your children, or nephews and nieces?
Of course you do!
?Do you have neighbours with children, or neighbours of neighbours with children?
Do you like the children of the neighbours?
Do you love the children of the neighbours?
NOOOOOWWW…. that’s different, isn’t it?
?Interesting enough the only difference between your child and the child of your neighbours is that your child is yours, and the child of the neighbours is not yours … I HOPE!
IT IS THE SAME WITH IDEAS. Ideas are like children.
Does your husband or wife, Or, in my case, ex-wife, also loves your children? THAT’S NO COINCIDENCE!
You love your children because they have your DNA. You made them together and you care for them together intensely.
People reject your idea because it’s the child of the neighbours.
The best way to get ideas accepted is to co-create or we-nnovate, as I like to call it. It’s creating new ideas together and stretching your comfort zones together, instead of ending up frustrated, feeling rejected.?That’s why you should ideate together - you brainstorm new ideas together with everyone who will be involved in the realisation process of your idea.?
Because as a parent, or grandparent you will stretch your comfort zone endlessly to take care of your own children. And a new idea in an organisation needs the support of a big family to be able to grow up in a decent way.
Let's co-create or WEnnovate, creating new ideas together!
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Ciao,
Gijs
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1 个月Exactly, I am among of the victim of this, in our office the team had three members but I was a new I the team. I used to suggest ideals only one accepted my ideals but the top leader underestimated my ideals. I was less older to them,? I asked my self why my ideals are rejected by top leader?? I also tried to tell my fellow assistant, he told me the same that, "even I my ideals are not taken by top leader. I told him that this is the problem, we decided to have mutual agreement and ignore the top leader and implement our ideals, this was the best solution. Our senior leader realized that our actions are accepted by organization members and are successfully, the organization starts to grow positively and every challenge was solved immediately using our ideals. One day we contradicted with senior leader who had to challenges, ignoring ideals and spending most of time with smartphone, working when director is available (believing that things will be supervised themselves). We permitted people to do a captain job which was productive to our organization, when he realized he stopped them but they rejected they continued. He reported? to the director finally the guilt won. Director had the same views we had. Director realized that there is rejection of good ideals. He came with the book that all ideals plans should be written and signed by all leaders before reaching to workers. I realizes that director was a great man.? ?For this Co-creating it is possible when Top leader is wise. If the top team leader is poor this will inhibit growth of team.
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8 个月Co-creating new ideas is the key to gaining acceptance. Let's stretch our comfort zones together! ?? Gijsbertus J.J. van Wulfen
CEO @ Human Telex Consulting | Organizational Development
8 个月Stretching the limits! Of course, only if you want to innovate. Who demonstrates this better, than a man who streches his own limits all the time? Congats, Gijsbertus J.J. van Wulfen
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8 个月That's an insightful perspective! Collaborative ideation can indeed foster acceptance and innovation. Gijsbertus J.J. van Wulfen
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8 个月Thanks for sharing! Collaboration and co-creation can indeed be powerful tools for getting ideas accepted. Gijsbertus J.J. van Wulfen