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Here are 11 1/2 weird ideas from professor, author, and blogger, Bob Sutton, for promoting, managing, and sustaining innovation in your organization or team……

1) Hire “Slow Learners” (of the Organizational Code)

1 1/2 ) Hire People Who Make You Uncomfortable, Even Those You Dislike

3) Hire People You (Probably) Don’t Need

4) Use Job Interviews to Get Ideas, Not to Screen Candidates

5) Encourage People to Ignore and Defy Superiors and Peers

6) Find Some Happy People and Get Them to Fight

7) Reward Success and Failure, Punish Inaction

8) Decide to Do Something That Will Probably Fail, Then Convince Yourself and Everyone Else That Success Is Certain

9) Think of Some Rediculous or Impractical Things To Do, Then Plan to Do Them

10) Avoid, Distract, and Bore Customers, Critics, and Anyone Who Just Wants to Talk About Money

11) Don’t Try to Learn Anything from People Who Seem to Have Solved The Problems You Face

That is quite a list.  I’m interested in learning more about his weird ideas so I will be adding Sutton’s book, Weird Ideas That Work, to my wishlist.

Would your organization or team embrace these weird ideas?

How innovative is your organization or team?

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