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There are typically two ways companies unintentionally discourage innovation: preventing employee growth and paying too much attention to the highest paid person in the room. Here's how to promote creativity instead.

What do turtles have to do with innovation? Not much, we thought, until we ran across a retail manager at a big box store in San Diego during the course of our research and clinical work for Judgment on the Front Line. That manager pulled us aside to explain that most employees--particularly those at the bottom of the hierarchy who serviced customers--were treated like turtles at many companies.

To read the full, original article click on this link: How Treating Your Employees Like Turtles Can Smother Innovation | Fast Company