June 2004 - Ideas are Free: How the Idea Revolution is Liberating People and Transforming Organizations
Scottish shipbuilder William Denny put up the world's first industrial suggestion box in 1886, and thousands of companies have since followed suit. Most of us know what happens to the slips of paper inside them -- and that's the shame. "Every day, millions of working people see problems and opportunities that their managers do not," the authors write. The book presents an outline for establishing an idea-generation program in virtually any workplace.
