Mark raises an interesting question that comes from the Boardroom Inc. examples in Ideas Are Free. Boardroom requires every employee to offer a minimum of two ideas each week, or the employee loses his or her quarterly bonus. While ...READ»
One of the more far reaching ... and maybe reaching too far ... findings to come out of the Ideas Are Free study was that a great idea system not only improves the quality of employees' work lives, but it also impacts the quality of ...READ»
The concept of an Idea Forum, suggested in an earlier conversation, is a great one. It boosts the quantity and quality of ideas, speeds the response time to them, and develops everyone involved into better problem solvers.
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We often encounter managers who challenge a key message in Ideas Are Free -- that a systematic approach to handling employee ideas is required. Typically these people tell us something like this:
Every one of our managers ...READ»