Comments on: New Ideas: Separating The Chaff From The Grain http://andyburkhardt.com/2011/01/25/new-ideas-separating-the-chaff-from-the-grain/ Top of the Information Food Chain Wed, 22 May 2013 15:00:26 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v= By: If at first… | Chasing Reference http://andyburkhardt.com/2011/01/25/new-ideas-separating-the-chaff-from-the-grain/comment-page-1/#comment-2856 If at first… | Chasing Reference Mon, 09 Jul 2012 15:27:17 +0000 http://andyburkhardt.com/?p=1392#comment-2856 [...] in terms of library initiatives.  Andy Burkhardt encourages librarians to take risks and try new programs despite uncertainty.  Meredith Farkas wrote a great two-part series earlier this year about [...]

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]]> By: Andy Burkhardt http://andyburkhardt.com/2011/01/25/new-ideas-separating-the-chaff-from-the-grain/comment-page-1/#comment-943 Andy Burkhardt Tue, 25 Jan 2011 21:59:08 +0000 http://andyburkhardt.com/?p=1392#comment-943 Joe, I agree that additional scrutiny is what polishes ideas and makes them stronger, and it’s necessary. I think that is Meredith’s point in her post about devil’s advocates. Subjecting an idea to criticism can test if it has value.

What I’m thinking about though, is the environment in which new ideas are brought forward. If it’s a positive environment where criticism occurs because everyone genuinely wants to make the ideas better, there will likely be a lot more new ideas. But if it’s a negative environment in which people constantly criticize, not to make ideas better, but out of fear or uncertainty about the future or because they dislike someone or whatever, then people will be less likely to put forward new ideas.

]]> By: joe grobelny http://andyburkhardt.com/2011/01/25/new-ideas-separating-the-chaff-from-the-grain/comment-page-1/#comment-942 joe grobelny Tue, 25 Jan 2011 20:37:06 +0000 http://andyburkhardt.com/?p=1392#comment-942 It could die, or additional scrutiny can lead to the polishing it needs.The peasant’s concerns about their crops being stolen was a matter of life and death, which is frankly, legitimate give the context of agricultural societies. Medival China or in the context of Mao’s rule, such concerns are utterly valid and Kelly glosses on the context to make his point.

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