I did this at my first job. A director had a problem and no one was sure if a solution was practical. He was chatting about it in our team area and I said, oh, I can see a way to make that work. A few months later it was shipped and I basically got a promotion out of it.
What? Your contribution to your company was actually recognized? I've never heard of that happening before. Where do you live? I'm guessing it's not the USA.
Hah, yeah, basically my thought process reading the article and the parent. Since when do people get promoted/recognized/raises for pulling a rabbit out of a magic hat? Certainly not anywhere I've worked and I've done exactly that a fair few times.
