Creative People Must Be Stopped

ISBN-13: 9781118002902 / Angielski / Twarda / 2011 / 304 str.

David Owens

Opis

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 author'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.

Recenzje

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 and 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

Spis treści

Introduction: Creative People Must Be Stopped! 1

1. The Context of Innovation: Why Everyone Wants Innovation but No One Wants to Change 3

2. Why Most of Us Are More Creative Than We Think: Individual Innovation Constraints 25

3. Why a Brainstorm Meeting Can Be Worse Than No Meeting at All: Innovation Constraints in Groups 57

4. Why You ll Never Be a Prophet in Your Hometown: Organizational Innovation Constraints 95

5. If It s Such a Great Idea, Why Isn t Our Competitor Doing It? Industry Innovation Constraints 125

6. Why My Innovation Means You Have to Change: Societal Innovation Constraints 157

7. How to Take a Really Hard Problem and Make It Completely Impossible: Technological Innovation Constraints 187

8. When Failure Is Not an Option: Leading an Innovation Strategy 223

Appendix A: Using the Assessment Results 249

Appendix B: Innovation Team Contract Guidelines 255

Appendix C: An Innovation Bookshelf 259

References 261

Acknowledgments 267

About the Author 271

Index 273

This book is dedicated to my lovely ladies, Jennifer, Charlotte, and Adelaide

O autorze

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.

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Praise for Creative People Must Be Stopped

"Innovation is about asking the right questions! Dave Owens describes a fresh way to ask and answer the questions that really make a difference in successful innovation." Chad Holliday, chairman, Bank of America; retired chairman and CEO, DuPont

"Ever wonder why your company can′t seem to succeed at breakthrough innovation? Or why your team′s big idea never goes anywhere? Or why you aren′t able to generate more creative solutions to problems? Creative People Must Be Stopped will help you answer these questions, diagnose what′s behind these underperformances, and get unstuck. Combining solid insights and theory with practical approaches and compelling stories, Owens brings clarity to a topic that is often misunderstood." Todd A. McCullough, partner, Monitor Group; adjunct faculty, Institute ofDesign at Illinois Institute of Technology; managing director, Doblin Inc.

"Owens writes as he teaches, with humor, candor, and surprisingly sophisticated theoretical underpinning. The result is an engaging and very accessible book filled with practical tools for leaders interested in advancing their innovation agendas." Lisa C. King, vice president, insights and innovation, Newell Rubbermaid

"This is essential and timely reading for leaders in the field of arts and culture. Dave Owens is able to clearly convey the barriers to innovation and how to overcome them. His insights about how to make good ideas actually result in positive change are invaluable to any leader seeking to strengthen an organization, and offer a fresh and clarifying approach to the whole concept of innovation." Russell Willis Taylor, president and CEO, National Arts Strategies

"Creative People Must Be Stopped explores why so many great ideas never make it to market, and why some do. It is rich in real–world examples and provides straightforward tools to unleash your innovation potential. It is essential reading for anyone who thinks that they might have something to do with innovation, and especially for those who don′t." Neil A. Willcocks, vice president, research and development, Mars Petcare