President Bush solicited the ideas in March, saying, "I want to make sure people understand that we're going to do everything we can to clean up the regulatory burdens on small business.
But this effort, he said, would be different because for the first time, the county and the town are working together and actively soliciting the ideas of residents.
This is leadership behavior which attends to individual needs, specifically incorporating and engaging concerns, challenging assumptions, and soliciting the ideas of others.
Two nights ago, Mr. Protetch, who solicited the 50 ideas and renderings from architects and artists, offered a preview of some of the designs at a forum sponsored by the Institute for Urban Design.
This year, instead of spending $20 million on SuperBowl ads, Pepsi decided to put the money into Pepsi Refresh, a social marketing campaign which solicits the best ideas from consumers and plans to dole out $20 million in grants to good causes and "great ideas" throughout the year.
UDRI launched an international competition, called Reinventing Dharavi, to solicit the best ideas for this endlessly limboed issue.
Government efforts to solicit the public's ideas are often clunkingly non-specific: asking people what they think should be done about, say, crime is unlikely to result in much new thinking.
After reporters were ushered out of the room, Mr. Biden solicited ideas from the gathered police officers.
At the same time, the G.S.A. solicited "creative development ideas" for the old courthouse, which it said it hoped a developer would acquire in exchange for building federal offices in Los Angeles for other agencies.
Over the course of five months, the project solicited student ideas of how to change Britain.
