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it's gonna happen because they're your
boss you're gonna be collaborating and
you're gonna have some killer idea and
all of a sudden it becomes not your idea
but his or her idea
your boss is inevitably gonna take an
idea of yours and you hope give you
credit but inevitably take it on as
their own how you deal with it is you
let them know that you know that this
idea came from you you don't want to own
it
possessively you want to say hey that
idea was generated out of a team
discussion and wasn't that fun and isn't
that interesting and you know you just
want to make sure that they know that
you know that they have taken that idea
and have represented it as theirs that's
a part of work I think at the end of the
day that's what happens if you keep
generating great ideas you're gonna
continue to be asked into the big
meetings and people are gonna notice
that in fact the ideas are coming from
you at the end of the day you can take
it as a compliment that your boss is
stolen your idea you just want to make
sure that he knows that you know