[ranie93]

I wonder how the author would respond to your feedback:

> Reporting problems and proposed solutions should be encouraged, but there shouldn't be a blanket statement of "Don't bring a me problem unless you have a proposed solution!"

It's kind of meta because in this post itself you are employing a kind of complain-and-propose.

Anyways I think your conclusion is entirely reasonable. I don't think blanket statements are most ever the solution, and I assume the author would agree!

[warner25]

To be clear, in practice I think some organizational cultures just aggressively embrace this idea to the point of it being detrimental. I've heard statements with those exact words coming from executives, and I've seen people sort of squashed by executives in town hall-type forums for raising a problem without offering a solution.

(In the line that you quoted, by the way, I just changed "and" to "with" for clarity.)