Heard a great comment today:
“Suggestions are things somebody else should do. Ideas are things that I can do.”
Maybe that is why Norman Bodek's books and the others (The Idea Generator: Quick and Easy Kaizen and Ideas Are Free: How the Idea Revolution Is Liberating People and Transforming Organizations
) use that word instead of “suggestion”
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Great point, I think I’ll start using “ideas” instead of “suggestions.” Suggestions (and boxes) are passe’.