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What Should Companies Do To Encourage New Ideas?


Allow employees to conduct a brainstorming session everyday before work.


Promote a flexible work atmosphere, which in turn might motivate employees to be more creative at work.


Financial compensation for ideas which are actually implemented by the company.





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Discourse Markers / Discourse markers are words and phrases used in speaking and writing to 'signpost' discourse. Discourse markers do this by showing turns, joining ideas together, showing attitude, and generally controlling communication. Some people regard discourse markers as a feature of spoken language only.


The function of anyway is to signal a change in the direction of the conversation, in this case to finish it, so anyway is a discourse marker here. They can be used to focus, clarify, contrast, change the subject, show agreement or disagreement, etc.


Where I work, there is a very rigid "top down" hierarchy -- a barrier which impedes the sharing of ideas freely.