Ideaship
How to Get Ideas Flowing in Your Workplace
1st Edition
Published on 1. November 2001
152 pages
978-1-60509-336-9 (ISBN)
Description
For Foster, the primary job of a leader is to raise people's self-esteem, make it fun to come to work, and in the process help both employee and employer boost productivity. In ",Ideaship, ", he simply and compellingly describes 39 ways to unleash workers' creativity. 20 illustrations.
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Content
- Intro
- Contents
- Preface
- Part I: What Is Ideaship?
- Part II: How Do You Become an Ideaist?
- 1. You help people think better of themselves
- 2. You help create an environment that's fun
- Part III: Sixteen Personal Things You Can Do
- 1. Follow the golden rule
- 2. Care about the people you work with
- 3. Remember that they work with you, not for you
- 4. Make sure they like you
- 5. Take the blame, give the praise away
- 6. Hire only people you like
- 7. Trust them
- 8. Praise their efforts
- 9. Allow them the freedom to fail
- 10. Help them achieve their goals
- 11. Never lie about anything important
- 12. Show some enthusiasm
- 13. Ask them to help you
- 14. Get rid of the word "I"
- 15. Play the fool
- 16. Have fun yourself
- Part IV: Seven Organizational Things You Can Do
- 1. Cut down on approvals
- 2. Make everybody an owner
- 3. Give them what they need
- 4. Keep it small
- 5. Tell them everything about their company
- 6. Shun rules
- 7. Pay for their education
- Part V: Eighteen Strategic Things You Can Do
- 1. Don't ask for one solution - Ask for many
- 2. Make their jobs seem easy
- 3. Don't reject ideas - Ask for more
- 4. Give them more than one problem at a time
- 5. Ask for more ideas, sooner
- 6. If it isn't working, change it
- 7. Let them solo
- 8. Let them do it their way
- 9. Make sure the problem is the problem
- 10. Let them shine
- 11. Be wary of fear
- 12. Make it Us vs Them, not Us vs Us
- 13. Share what everybody does
- 14. Share experiences
- 15. Search for ways to create fun
- 16. Insist on vacations
- 17. Let them vacation when they want to vacation
- 18. Forget about efficiency, care about the idea
- What Should You Do Next?
- Notes
- Index
- A
- B
- C
- D
- E
- F
- G
- H
- I
- J
- K
- L
- M
- N
- O
- P
- Q
- R
- S
- T
- U
- V
- W
- Y
- About the Author
- About the Illustrator
