"All Ideas Suck"
My article " All Ideas Suck " was first published on Intuit Labs . The practice of judging ideas — specifically hosting panels made up of senior leaders — is not only unhelpful but it can be an impediment to innovation. Ideas are a dime a dozen and their value evolves through execution and learning. Eric Ries , a Silicon Valley entrepreneur and author recognized for pioneering the Lean Startup movement , said “all ideas suck.” He explained that only through the discovery journey of lean experimentation can ideas have a chance of blossoming. Examples of success via lean experimentation are endless. Consider Google co-founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin , who developed a better search algorithm for the web based on their insight from academic papers and citations. They discovered web pages could be ranked based on how many pages were linked to them. Google would eventually become the biggest advertising company of all time. And t...