Five Principles for Rewarding Creativity 1. Treat questions with respect. Treat imaginative ideas with respect 3. Show people their ideas are valuable 4. Provide safe opportunities for experimentation, exploration and finding out what does not work.
Evaluation includes suggestions for improvement and highlighting what is well done.
Companies organized as traditional, bureaucratic hierarchies simply cannot respond quickly enough. The success of companies will depend on their abilities to address consumer needs and demands more creatively and effectively. Managers will play vital roles in transitioning from traditional bureaucracies to new networking organizations based on individual entrepreneurship and self managing teams.