No, not everyone on your team will be innovative. That's OK.

Managers that I've worked with love to do one of two things when discussing their team and its members:

• Praise the hell out of them and talk about how they're the "best team in the biz" (80 percent of the time, which is nice!)

• Throw them under the bus and talk about how they need to get X-Person off the bus (20 percent)

Those numbers are approximate, of c…