But the point the poster was making is that what is "grassroots" depends on who the idea comes from. If it's someone that you interact with daily and actually get a significant chunk of time with, then it seems natural; if it's coming from someone too high up the chain to remember your name, it seems contrived.
Whereas the genesis of the idea may have been the result of the exact same thought processes either way.
>But the point the poster was making is that what is "grassroots" depends on who the idea comes from. If it's someone that you interact with daily and actually get a significant chunk of time with, then it seems natural; if it's coming from someone too high up the chain to remember your name, it seems contrived.
Well, that's the very definition of grassroots, isn't it? If it's coming from "up the chain", it's not grassroots anymore.
>Whereas the genesis of the idea may have been the result of the exact same thought processes either way.
Not really. When it comes from the bottom, i.e the people actually doing it, it is not an "idea", it's something you do _spontaneously_, for fun, etc.
One is something that just happens --which can then be codified, repeated, passed on to new team members, built into a culture--, the other is something that is designed.
Whereas the genesis of the idea may have been the result of the exact same thought processes either way.