I remember specifically having my first meeting with a Director of a large account at my last job.

I was really excited by it and was rattling off a list of ideas and tactics and strategies for how we could open the account.

His face turned bright red and he started SCREAMING at me.

At that point I was like “oooohk I did the thing again.” And backed off and didn’t interact with him.

After that he was a total asshole to me and started spreading rumors about me.

He felt extremely threatened I gather that he had been running this account for years and I could walk in and imagine a number of new approaches.

If I did it now I wouldn’t be so direct.

I have ideas all the time and most like do not want to have discussions like this because … they don’t have ideas themselves.

Corporate middle management are generally non creative and “brainstorming” just pisses them off.