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Ideas Are Free: How the Idea Revolution is Liberating People and Transforming Organizations: How the Idea Revolution Is Liberating People and Transforming Organizations(English)

Ideas Are Free: How the Idea Revolution is Liberating People and Transforming Organizations: How the Idea Revolution Is Liberating People and Transforming Organizations(English)

          
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The fact is, because they're the ones actually doing the day-to-day work front-line employees see a great many problems and opportunities that their managers don't. But most organizations do very poorly at tapping into this extraordinary potential source of revenue-enhancing, savings-generating ideas. Ideas Are Free sets out a roadmap for totally integrating ideas and idea management into the way companies are structured and operate. Alan Robinson and Dean Schroeder draw on their ten years experience with more than three hundred organizations in fifteen countries to show precisely how to design a system to take advantage of this virtually free, perpetually renewing font of innovation. Robinson and Schroeder deal with two fundamental principles of managing ideas that are highly counterintuitive - the importance of going after small ideas rather than big ones, and the problems with the most common reward schemes and how to avoid them. They describe how to make ideas part of everyone's job, and how to set up and run an effective process for handling ideas-how to take a good idea system and make it great. And they show how good idea systems have a profound impact on an organization's culture. At the end of each chapter they provide "Guerrilla Tactics for the Idea Revolutionary", actions to promote ideas that any manager can take on his or her own authority, and that require little or no resources.

Table of Contents:
Preface
Acknowledgments

CHAPTER 1 THE IDEA REVOLUTION
What’s in an Idea?
How Ideas Drive a Culture of High Performance
The Need for Managerial Humility
Why Organizations Never Run Out of Improvement Opportunities
Overview of the Book’s Main Points
Conclusion

CHAPTER 2 THE POWER OF SMALL IDEAS
Excellence Depends on Small Ideas
Small Ideas and Rapid Organizational Learning
Sustainable Competitive Advantage
How Small Ideas Lead to Big Ones
The True Currency of Managing Ideas
Key Points

CHAPTER 3 THE PITFALLS OF REWARDS
Some Inconvenient Evidence
Why Do People Step Forward with Ideas?
The Invisible Costs of Rewards
Reward Systems That Work
Key Points

CHAPTER 4 MAKING IDEAS EVERYONE’S JOB
“It’s Not Your Job to Think”
Making Ideas Part of Employees’ Work
Making Ideas Part of the Work of Supervisors
Making Ideas Part of the Work of Middle Managers
Making Ideas Part of the Work of Senior Leaders
Making Ideas Part of the Organization’s Work
Key Points

CHAPTER 5 PUTTING THE PROCESS IN PLACE
Characteristic 1: Ideas Are Encouraged and Welcomed
Characteristic 2: Submitting Ideas Is Simple
Characteristic 3: Evaluation of Ideas Is Quick and Effective
Characteristic 4: Feedback Is Timely, Constructive, and Informative
Characteristic 5: Implementation Is Rapid and Smooth
Characteristic 6: Ideas Are Reviewed for Additional Potential
Characteristic 7: People Are Recognized, and Success Is Celebrated
Characteristic 8: Idea System Performance Is Measured, Reviewed, and Improved
Key Points

CHAPTER 6 FOCUSING ON WHAT MATTERS MOST
Choosing What to Focus On
Making Focus a Way of Life
Key Points

CHAPTER 7 GETTING MORE AND BETTER IDEAS
How People Come Up with Ideas
Idea Activators
How to Broaden Employees’ Perspectives
Improving Alertness to Problems and Opportunities
Key Points

CHAPTER 8 LIBERATION AND TRANSFORMATION
Ideas and Attitudes
Ideas and Respect, Trust, and Involvement
Ideas and Interpersonal Relations
How Ideas Counter Learned Helplessness
Ideas and a High-Performance Culture
Parting Thoughts
Key Points
Notes
Index
About the Authors


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9781576753743
  • Publisher: Berrett-Koehler
  • Publisher Imprint: Berrett-Koehler
  • Depth: 13
  • Height: 210 mm
  • No of Pages: 264
  • Series Title: English
  • Sub Title: How the Idea Revolution Is Liberating People and Transforming Organizations
  • Width: 140 mm
  • ISBN-10: 1576753743
  • Publisher Date: 08 Jan 2006
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Edition: 2 Reprint
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: Y
  • Spine Width: 18 mm
  • Weight: 307 gr


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