Weird Ideas That Work How to Build a Creative Company

Name: Weird Ideas That Work How to Build a Creative Company
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ISBN: 9780743227889

ISBN-10: 0743227883

ISBN-13: 9780743227889

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Authors: Robert I. Sutton

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A breakthrough in management thinking, "weird ideas" can help every organization achieve a balance between sustaining performance and fostering new ideas. To succeed, you need to be both conventionalandweird. Hire misfits Pursue the impractical Find happy people and encourage them to fight Reward failure but punish inaction Forget your own successes These and other counterintuitive strategies will unlock ideas you never knew you had.

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List price: $17.99
Publisher: Free Press
Publication date: 5/15/2007
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 240
Size: 5.50" wide x 8.44" long x 0.60" tall
Weight: 0.572
Language: English




Why The Weird Ideas Work



Why These Ideas Work, but Seem Weird



What Is Creativity, Anyway?



The Weird Ideas



Hire ""Slow Learners"" (of the Organizational Code) (Weird Idea #1)



Hire People Who Make You Uncomfortable, Even Those You Dislike (Weird Idea #11?2)



Hire People You (Probably) Don't Need (Weird Idea #2)



Use Job Interviews to Get Ideas, Not to Screen Candidates (Weird Idea #3)



Encourage People to Ignore and Defy Superiors and Peers (Weird Idea #4)



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