The innovation killer
Subtitle: how what we know limits what we can imagine-- and what smart companies are doing about it
By: Cynthia Barton Rabe
Publisher: Amacom
Published: 2006
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Format: [electronic resource] :
Number of pages: 219
ISBN-13: 9780814429624
Subjects: Problem solving; Business; Structural Adjustment; Creative ability in business; Organizational effectiveness; Creative thinking; BUSINESS & ECONOMICS
Description: Knowledge is good," preaches the inscription under the statue of college founder Emil Faber in the film Animal House. But as valid as that declamation may be at a university, in the corporate world what passes for knowledge can be a killer. Companies and teams rely on "what we know" and "the way we do things here" to speed decision making and maintain a sense of order. But progress demands change, risk taking, and occasionally, revolution. Processes must be overhauled, assumptions challenged, taboos broken. But how do you do it? Who among the group will take responsibi.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [201]-211) and index.

Description based on print version record.
Table of contents: title: What's weighing us down; title: Zero-gravity thinkers; title: Defying gravity.