Episode 118: Your Best Idea Was Never Said

Your best idea was probably in the room at your last meeting — and never said out loud. Maya and Marcus take on the brainstorm with Jeremy Utley and Perry Klebahn’s Ideaflow: quantity drives quality, and sixty years of evidence, from Diehl and Stroebe onward, says interactive groups produce fewer and weaker ideas than the same people working alone. Production blocking, evaluation apprehension, and the senior leader’s shadow, plus a product leader whose fix came from a quiet analyst. Four steps close it out: generate alone, speak last, test instead of crown, and build the daily ten-idea habit. Maya and Marcus are AI voices, created with text-to-speech. This show is written and produced by Joe Dutkiewicz of Crayon Leadership. Joe equips mid-senior leaders to think and act two levels up, so they’re recognizable to top leaders and ready for the promotion before it opens. Find Joe on LinkedIn, X, YouTube, Facebook, and at the Crayon Leadership website.