TY - BOOK AU - Miller,Paddy AU - Wedell-Wedellsborg,Thomas TI - Innovation as usual: how to help your people bring great ideas to life SN - 9781422144190 AV - HD53 .M549 2013 U1 - 658.4063 PY - 2013///] CY - Boston, Massachusetts PB - Harvard Business Review Press KW - Creative ability in business KW - Creative thinking KW - Diffusion of innovations KW - Management KW - Organizational behavior KW - New products N1 - Includes bibliographical references (pages 195-200) and index; Innovation as usual: how to change what people do, every day --; Focus: how to make people focus on ideas that matter --; Connect: how to help people get high-impact ideas --; Tweak: how to help people improve their ideas --; Select: how to make people better gatekeepers --; Stealthstorm: how to help people navigate the politics of innovation --; Persist: how to increase people's personal motivation to innovate --; Epilogue: the Monday morning problem N2 - "Most organizations approach innovation as if it were a sideline activity. Every so often employees are sent to "Brainstorm Island": an off-site replete with trendy lectures, creative workshops, and overenthusiastic facilitators. But once they return, it's back to business as usual. Innovation experts Paddy Miller and Thomas Wedell-Wedellsborg suggest a better approach. They recommend that leaders at all levels become "innovation architects," creating an ecosystem in which people engage in key innovation behaviors as part of their daily work"--Page [2] of jacket ER -