Great Idea. Here Are 10 Ways It Can Be Derailed.

You've gotten a great idea that promises to bring significant benefits to your organization. Before popping the champagne, let's consider how it might be derailed by good people, much less your adversaries:

1. They will do it once but then incentives in the other direction will cause them never to do it again.



2. It is so rigid that when something unusual comes up, no one will know what to do.



3. The direction may be clear to you, but not to them.



4. Their roles may be unclear.



5. There may be no consequences if they fail to execute it vigorously.



6. The idea may have great merit, but the customers may feel neglected.



7. The idea threatens the status of key players.



8. The idea goes against the daily habits of key players.



9. Too many people will feel that it is your idea and not their idea.



10. They will smile at you and warmly embrace your idea and then take it off to a dark room where it can be studied to death.