Ideaship: How to Get Ideas Flowing in Your Workplace
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Book Description
Innovative, original ideas are a company's most powerful competitive advantage. Nathan Mhyrvold, former chief technology officer at Microsoft, has said that a great employee is worth 1,000 times more than an average one simply because of his or her ideas. In Ideaship, the sequel to his bestselling book, How to Get Ideas, Jack Foster shifts from how individuals spark their new ideas to how to unleash the creative genius of an entire organization. To create an idea-prone workforce, Foster proposes a totally new concept of leadership: "ideaship." Leaders shouldn't be spending their time obsessing over profits or sales or quality or service. Instead, they should devote most of their energies to making the office a place where creative ideas flow, where the workforce truly believes in its ability to brilliantly solve any problem put before it. Above all, where it's fun to work. With energy and humor, Foster draws on over thirty-five years as creative director of major advertising agencies-organizations whose only purpose is to constantly generate ideas-to offer dozens of fun, fast, often surprising nuggets of practical advice on how to create an environment where innovation and fresh thinking thrive. He reveals why you should only hire people you like, insist employees take vacations whether they want to or not, why efficiency is sometimes inefficient, and how sometimes you can accomplish more by playing the fool instead of the capital L "Leader."
Ideaship spells out proven ways to encourage creativity, simply and clearly and cogently, without a lot of charts and graphs and formulas and acronyms and statistics and fillers. It flips traditional leadership on its head and shows how simple acts of compassion, trust, and generosity of spirit, as well as some seemingly zany actions, can unleash unexpected, vital bursts of creativity.
Book Info
Author spells out proven ways to encourage creativity, simply and clearly and cogently, without a lot of charts and graphs and formulas, acronyms, statistics, and fillers. Witty, wise and easy to read. Illustrations included. Softcover.
Ideaship: How to Get Ideas Flowing in Your Workplace
Ideaship: How to Get Ideas Flowing in Your Workplace,Jack Foster,Larry Corby,Berrett-Koehler Publishers,1576751643,Business & Economics,Business / Economics / Finance,Business/Economics,Creative ability in business,Entrepreneurship,Leadership,Management,Management - General,Psychology, Industrial,Management & management techniques,Personnel & human resources management,Working patterns & practices,Business
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