Creating the Innovation Culture: leveraging visionaries, dissenters, and other useful troublemakers in your organization

Creating the Innovation Culture gives managers practical strategies and hands-on advice for encouraging and managing innovation. This may mean actually encouraging dissent, which is the source of innovation, while avoiding too much conflict, which can paralyze a workplace.
• Identifies how to encourage dissent and innovation
• Illustrates how managers can inadvertently stifle dissent
• Explains how to recognize when healthy dissent crosses into conflict
• Outlines the role of the manager as a b...