Ideas Are Free

Author : Alan G Robinson,Dean M Schroeder
Publisher : Berrett-Koehler Publishers
Page : 257 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2006-01-12
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781609943578

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Ideas Are Free by Alan G Robinson,Dean M Schroeder Pdf

The fact is, because they're the ones actually doing the day-to-day work front-line employees see a great many problems and opportunities that their managers don't. But most organizations do very poorly at tapping into this extraordinary potential source of revenue-enhancing, savings-generating ideas. Ideas Are Free sets out a roadmap for totally integrating ideas and idea management into the way companies are structured and operate. Alan Robinson and Dean Schroeder draw on their ten years experience with more than three hundred organizations in fifteen countries to show precisely how to design a system to take advantage of this virtually free, perpetually renewing font of innovation. Robinson and Schroeder deal with two fundamental principles of managing ideas that are highly counterintuitive - the importance of going after small ideas rather than big ones, and the problems with the most common reward schemes and how to avoid them. They describe how to make ideas part of everyone's job, and how to set up and run an effective process for handling ideas-how to take a good idea system and make it great. And they show how good idea systems have a profound impact on an organization's culture. At the end of each chapter they provide "Guerrilla Tactics for the Idea Revolutionary", actions to promote ideas that any manager can take on his or her own authority, and that require little or no resources.

Author : Alan G. Robinson,Dean M. Schroeder
Publisher : ReadHowYouWant.com
Page : 318 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2009-01-26
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781442962347

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The authors lay out a plan to tap into the full power of employee ideas and how to deal with them effectively during times of flagging profits, increasing competition, budget cuts, and layoffs.

Author : Ben Young
Publisher : Ben Young
Page : 151 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2009-07-14
Category : Blogs
ISBN : 9781441455505

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The Best Ideas are Free by Ben Young Pdf

"From 12 hour startup to you can do what you want these collection of inspirational rhymes, rants, riffs have provided a swift kick online. Now in book form its here right now just for you. I dare you to read this book and not get excited about an idea and rush off to get something started. However I fear I will lose."--Cover.

Author : Alan G. Robinson
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 408 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2009-02-03
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0369307518

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Ideas are Free by Alan G. Robinson Pdf

Performance expectations for managers keep going up. Managers are continually asked to do more, but to do it with less. For top management, the standard response to flagging profits and increasing competition has become budget cuts and layoffs. Middle managers and supervisors suffer the consequences, as they are left with too few resources and people to do the work. They are forced to operate in survival mode, putting in long hours to deal with an endless stream of urgent problems. Almost never do they have the time to think beyond this month's results. In addition, they are under constant scrutiny, and their jobs are not secure. Ironically, help is closer than they realize in the people who work for them. They are the ones who do the work, and they see many things their managers don't. On a daily basis, they see what is frustrating customers, causing waste, or generally holding the organization back. Employees often know how to improve performance and reduce costs more intelligently than their bosses do. Yet they are rarely given a chance to do anything about it. No one asks them for their ideas. Over the last century, many managers have recognized the huge potential in employee ideas and tried to tap it. But few have been truly successful. Those few found that they had fundamentally changed their organizations and helped them reach extraordinary levels of performance. Today, most managers either don't realize the full power of employee ideas or have never learned how to deal with them effectively. That is why we wrote Ideas Are Free....We hope that you enjoy Ideas Are Free and that it makes you a better leader.

Author : Alan G. Robinson
Publisher : Read How You Want.Com
Page : 332 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2009-01-28
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 144296233X

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Ideas Are Free by Alan G. Robinson Pdf

Author : Jean Oram
Publisher : Oram Productions
Page : 285 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2015-06-30
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9781928198192

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1,001 Boredom Busting Play Ideas by Jean Oram Pdf

AWESOME boredom busting play ideas—from creative crafts to zany new travel games! From mind-boggling science experiments to tricky challenges that will give your kids a case of the giggles. Beat the boredom blues with over 1,000 play ideas suitable for three-year-olds to eleven-year olds. There's something for everyone in this tried and tested book from NY Times bestselling author (and mom!), Jean Oram. "A lifesaver for parents and educators." --Kenneth, reader. Make it easy to say “no” to more screen time and “yes” to more play time with activities that will delight your children. Want to be the new favorite in the family? Check out some of the fun to be had with this one-of-a-kind book, 1,001 Boredom Busting Play Ideas: + 101 tricky, goofy challenges for kids + 36 Travel games PLUS 24 more games that can be played in the car + Arts and crafts (and holiday crafts, too) + Outside play ideas + Mad scientist safe & easy experiments--including Flubber! + Birthday party games + Family day trip ideas + Homeschool and classroom games + And more play, play, play! Includes 26 BONUS activities for a grand total of 1,027 activities to keep your kids happy! Have your best sleepover, birthday party, road tip, babysitting experience, snowy day, or homeschool play time ever! Play time is MORE than just crafts. The brain learns by playing. Build smarter, happier, healthier children... start with 1,001 Boredom Busting Play Ideas, because your kids deserve it. Keywords: crafts, crafts for kids, free play ideas, free range kids, antidote for helicopter parents, games for kids, challenges for kids, play ideas, game rules, game ideas, classic games, classic outdoor games, teacher resources, camp counselor idea books, Easter crafts, birthday party games, Christmas crafts, Halloween crafts, outdoor play ideas, family fun ideas, playcation, staycation ideas, family game night, family time, daycare resources, playschool resources, kindergarten resources, child development, empathy development, confidence building in kids, books for babysitters, keep kids busy, keep kids busy book, screen free play ideas, screen-free, healthy children, healthy kids, raising kids, raising children, how to raise kids, over scheduled kids, over scheduled children, over-scheduled kids, childhood anxiety, outdoor games, outdoor play, active play ideas, quiet play ideas, reading games, math games, travel games, family travel games.

Author : David Hume
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 78 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 1753
Category : Electronic
ISBN : BL:A0024023701

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Some Thoughts on Self-Love, Innate-Ideas, Free-Will, Taste, Sentiment, Liberty and Necessity, &c. Occasioned by reading Mr. Hume's works, and the short treatise ... by Lord Bolingbroke, on Compassion. Together with a few remarks on the Genuine Sequel, and Mr. Knowles's Answer to the Essay on Spirit. In a Letter to a Friend. By the author of the Essay on Spirit [i.e. Robert Clayton]. by David Hume Pdf

Author : Jordan Ayan
Publisher : Crown Archetype
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2010-06-30
Category : Self-Help
ISBN : 9780307554185

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Aha! by Jordan Ayan Pdf

"Aha! is a joyful, upbeat survey of ideas for enhancing creativity. Jordan Ayan's enthusiasm is hard to resist, and every reader will find personally suitable strategies. Aha! is an inspiring yet practical guidebook for freeing the creative spirit." --Betty Edwards, author of Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain "A delightful romp through the rich and complicated field of creativity. Ayan's Aha! is bound to make the reader's thinking more interesting and original." --Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi, ph.d., author of Flow: the Psychology of Optimal Experience "The future belongs to those who create it. Jordan Ayan's exceptional book will show you how to create yours by providing the keys to unlock your great ideas." --Daniel Burrus, author of Technotrends and a leading technology forecaster Behind every successful venture, there's a great idea. If you haven't found your great idea yet, or if you've always thought you "just weren't the creative type," Jordan Ayan's accessible and entertaining book will give you the confidence to listen to your own creative spirit and to find the breakthrough you've been waiting for. Based on the notion that creativity is a life skill that must be continually cultivated, Ayan offers ten strategies for finding and harnessing inspiration--wherever and whenever it occurs. His mini workshops will show you how travel, reading, the arts, new technology, journaling, and more can form the basic building blocks of a more creative and rewarding life.

Author : John Stuart Mill
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2021-04-15
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0692087141

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All Minus One by John Stuart Mill Pdf

Author : Hugh Salmon
Publisher : Troubador Publishing Ltd
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2016-09-06
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781785898853

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Ideas for Britain by Hugh Salmon Pdf

Recognised and respected throughout the advertising industry for blowing the whistle on fraud at a publicly quoted advertising agency of which he was managing director, Hugh Salmon’s career was further affected by complications of a broken back caused by a rugby injury. He witnessed the suffering that disabled people are forced to endure and realised that the understanding of human behav-iour and the creative talent in advertising agencies could be applied to improving society as a whole – particularly the poor, the underprivileged and the disabled. After standing as an independent MP in the 2010 general election, Hugh’s challenging observations on life and human behaviour featured in his blog ‘A Different Hat’ on the marketing website Brand Republic and Huffington Post. Ideas for Britain, previously published as an ebook, is a compilation of some of these blog posts from 2009-2015. From Theresa May’s ignorance of the most basic law of advertising to a call for the role of government to be redefined in a changing world; from the simple belief that every child has a talent at something to innovative proposals for the education system; from the realities of living as a disabled person to a radical new future for the NHS (including a call to separate care from cure and the launch of a new National Care Service); from the failure of immigration policy to the underlying tensions of an increasingly divided society (since evidenced by the 2016 EU referendum), Ideas for Britain takes an adman’s innate understanding of human behaviour and challenges the political classes to seek more creative solutions to the core issues facing Britain today.

Author : Yaron Brook,Don Watkins
Publisher : St. Martin's Press
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2012-09-18
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781137079343

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Free Market Revolution by Yaron Brook,Don Watkins Pdf

NATIONAL BESTSELLER A look at how our current crises are caused by too much government, and how Ayn Rand's bold defense of free markets can help us change course. The rise of the Tea Party and the 2010 election results revealed that tens of millions of Americans are alarmed by Big Government, but skeptical that anything can or will be done to stop the growth of the state. In Free Market Revolution, the keepers of Ayn Rand's legacy argue that the answer lies in her pioneering philosophy of capitalism and self-interest –a philosophy that more and more people are turning to for answers. In the past few years, Rand's works have surged to new peaks of popularity, as politicians like Paul Ryan, media figures like John Stossel, and businessmen like John Mackey routinely name her as one of their chief influences. Here, Brook and Watkins explain how her ideas can solve a host of political and economic ills, including the debt crisis, inflation, overregulation, and the swelling welfare state. And most important, they show how Rand's philosophy can enable defenders of the free market to sieze the moral high ground in the fight to limit government. This is a fresh and urgent look at the ideas of one of the most controversial figures in modern history – ideas that may prove the only hope for the future.

Author : Victoria Davion,Clark Wolf
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Page : 303 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 1999-12-22
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781461644439

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The Idea of a Political Liberalism by Victoria Davion,Clark Wolf Pdf

In this unique volume, some of today's most eminent political philosophers examine the thought of John Rawls, focusing in particular on his most recent work. These original essays explore diverse issues, including the problem of pluralism, the relationship between constitutive commitment and liberal institutions, just treatment of dissident minorities, the constitutional implications of liberalism, international relations, and the structure of international law. The first comprehensive study of Rawls's recent work, The Idea of Political Liberalism will be indispensable for political philosophers and theorists interested in contemporary political thought.

Author : Douglas Hagued
Publisher : Springer
Page : 585 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 1963-01-01
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781349084586

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International Trade Theory in a Developing World by Douglas Hagued Pdf

Author : Carlos Rey,Miquel Bastons,Phil Sotok
Publisher : Springer
Page : 153 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2019-06-17
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9783030176747

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Purpose-driven Organizations by Carlos Rey,Miquel Bastons,Phil Sotok Pdf

A higher purpose is not simply about profit. Symbolising the motivations of our actions and efforts, it reflects something much more aspirational and contributes to our global society. This open access book offers novel solutions to ensure employees support a wider organizational meaning whilst guaranteeing that the company benefits from the employee’s individual sense of purpose. Advocating a shift from previous models and theories, this book contributes to debate and offers insight for both scholars and practitioners. The chapters bring together academic rigour and practical models to help readers distinguish between the fads and influential strategies. Exploring the development of purpose at each level of business, from strategy and leadership to communication, this book avoids theoretical jargon and provides new approaches to building sustainable purpose-driven organizations. This is an Open Access book sponsored by DPMC Spain, UIC Barcelona and Corporate Excellence - Centre for Reputation Leadership

Author : Brookfield, Stephen
Publisher : McGraw-Hill Education (UK)
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 1984-06-01
Category : Education
ISBN : 9780335104093

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Adult Learners, Adult Education And The Communityaa by Brookfield, Stephen Pdf

Adults are continually learning outside of conventional education frameworks, acquiring new skills and knowledge in a range of community settings, Stephen Brookfield explores the extent and quality of this informal independent learning and the ways in which adult educators can work with independent adult learners to support and enhance their learning.