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Creative People Must Be Stopped: 6 Ways We Kill Innovation (Without Even Trying)
David A Owens
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Description for Creative People Must Be Stopped: 6 Ways We Kill Innovation (Without Even Trying)
Hardcover. A framework for overcoming the six types of innovation killers Everybody wants innovation or do they? Creative People Must Be Stopped shows how individuals and organizations sabotage their own best intentions to encourage "outside the box" thinking. Num Pages: 304 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: KJD. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 163 x 27. Weight in Grams: 504.
A framework for overcoming the six types of innovation killers Everybody wants innovation—or do they? Creative People Must Be Stopped shows how individuals and organizations sabotage their own best intentions to encourage "outside the box" thinking. It shows that the antidote to this self-defeating behavior is to identify which of the six major types of constraints are hindering innovation: individual, group, organizational, industry-wide, societal, or technological. Once innovators and other leaders understand exactly which constraints are working against them and how to overcome them, they can create conditions that foster innovation instead of stopping it in its tracks.
The ... Read moreauthor's model of constraints on innovation integrates insights from the vast literature on innovation with his own observations of hundreds of organizations. The book is filled with assessments, tools, and real-world examples.
- The author's research has been featured in the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, London Guardian and San Jose Mercury News, as well as on Fox News and on NPR's Marketplace
- Includes illustrative examples from leading organizations
- Offers a practical guide for bringing new ideas to fruition even within a previously rigid organizational culture
This book gives people in organizations the conceptual framework and practical information they need to innovate successfully.
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Publisher
John Wiley & Sons Inc
Place of Publication
New York, United States
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About David A Owens
DAVID A. OWENS is professor at Vanderbilt’s Graduate School of Management. He specializes in management, innovation, and product design, and has been featured in the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Fox News, and NPR’s Marketplace. Recently he served as CEO of Griffin Technology Inc.
Reviews for Creative People Must Be Stopped: 6 Ways We Kill Innovation (Without Even Trying)
"Creative People Must Be Stopped is among the best books ever written about human imagination in the workplace. David Owens is a master innovator, having practiced his craft as a product designer, researcher, teacher, creativity coach, and executive. The breadth and depth of his experience fills every page of this little gem, which is chock full of hundreds of big ... Read moreand little steps that you can take right now to do more creative work and to lead more innovative teams and organizations." —Robert Sutton, Stanford Professor, Author of the New York Times bestseller Good Boss, Bad Boss "This is no rarefied academic treatment on innovation as an abstract ideal, but a nuts and bolts handbook to dissecting our thought patterns about innovation. Owens dispels the myth that innovation is a binary trait that either exists or does not in a given product, process or business model. Creative People Must be Stopped addresses the myriad ways that novel ideas can fail in the marketplace. Working through a combination of thought experiments and real world examples, the book demonstrates how failures in understanding the context for innovation can prove every bit as deadly to progress as failures of imagination." —Mark Rowan, President, Griffin Technology Inc. "Dave Owens has delivered the survival guide every would-be innovation team requires before entering the fracas battle of bringing ideas to life. Read '6 Ways We Kill Innovation' if you are serious about making stuff and making stuff happen in this dangerous world for good ideas and the creative people who love them." —Peter Durand, Alphachimp Studio, Leading expert in graphic facilitation Show Less