Ideaship
Subtitle: How to Get Ideas Flowing in Your Workplace
Contributors: Larry Corby (Illustrator)
Edition: 1st edition
Publisher: Berrett-Koehler Publishers
Published: November 15, 2001
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 128
ISBN-13: 9781576751640
Subjects: Management & management techniques; Personnel & human resources management; Working patterns & practices; Leadership; Business/Economics; Business & Economics; Business / Economics / Finance; Psychology, Industrial; Management; Entrepreneurship; Business & Economics / Leadership; Business & Economics / Management; Business & Economics/Entrepreneurship; Business; Management - General; Creative ability in business
First sentence: I spent half my life in advertising.
Description: Foster has worked as a writer and as a creative director in advertising agencies for 35 years. He proposes a new idea of leadership--"ideaship"--arguing that leaders should create workplaces that are idea-friendly and encourage workers to be idea-prone. He offers an array of suggestions for personal, organizational, and strategic changes leaders can make to enhance employee creativity. Written in a non-academic, conversational style, with ideas based on personal experience in creative work environments. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com) distributed by Syndetic Solutions, LLC.