Dustin Staiger has a list of 10 signs that you’re shooting down good ideas in your organization. This reminds me of someone I worked with a while back. Here are my personal favorite signs from Dustin’s list of 10:

7. Listing the top 10 ideas from your department this year, half or more are your own.

5. All ideas must be proven.

4. You only want BIG ideas.

2. Your competition is your main source of ideas.

1. No matter how much you’ve talked about ideas, collected them, praised them, in the end you don’t use them. (Like a maimed duck, you let them wander off and die.)