AGR — How to Get Your Managers and Leadership Team on Board

A few days ago, I was talking with the CEO of a large company in New England with almost 15,000 employees. A couple of years ago, he had started an idea system, and although things were progressing well, he felt that some members of his leadership team and a significant percentage of his managers weren’t yet on board with the system, and were only paying lip service to it.

He had been gradually trying to hold them more accountable, among other things by incorporating the number of ideas per pe...