[watwut]

Tolerating ideas stealing (and other sorts of toxicity) is not good for company either through. Because what will happen is that people who steal ideas will go up and others will grow resentful or will stop sharing ideas. Not reacting to things like that enables it and makes it more frequent. If you want to be leader, you have to be conscious of shaping culture and this is part of it.

Also, leader needs to be able to protect team or company from under-the-belt attempts of customers, suppliers, competitors and such. Some of them will try that for sure and it is leaders job to deal with it.

[watwut]

Who would downvote this and why? Do you think that tolerating ideas stealing is good for company? Or that it does not matter for culture?

Or that leaders are not responsible for shaping culture?

Or that leaders are not responsible for protecting/ensuring that company looks capable, creative etc to outside?