“Who Came Up With That?” Gets Weighed Before the Idea

TheAutisticLeader™️ Podcast · Oct 11, 2026 · 12m

Season 3 · Episode 3.

You ask your team for ideas on a problem. Someone offers one that is not fully worked out, or that is about work outside their own job, and before anyone asks what it would fix, the people at the table are weighing who raised it. “The best idea wins, no matter who it is from” is good advice, and most teams leave unsaid who will make the call and what an idea will be judged on. When nobody says those two things, an unwritten rule fills the space: an idea should show up finished, from someone who does that kind of work.

In this episode I tell a story management books have…