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Managers and supervisors can tend to generalize issues and gloss over certain details, while employees who work directly with what is causing
problem know exactly what is wrong and what should be done about it. Their knowledge of
problem is direct and intimate, and they can provide accurate solutions. They know things by experience, not by theory.
The Power of Small Ideas
Big ideas are always more attractive – they are splashier, grander, always more promising. Managers are therefore more likely to weed out “small” ideas and go for
really big ones,
“home runs” – those that could help generate millions of dollars in revenue or topple
competition, instantly. But when it comes to ideas, small does not always mean ineffective or weak. In fact, in organizations it is often smarter to focus on small ideas rather than on big ones.
Idea Management
As simple as it sounds, getting and using employee ideas to improve your organization’s performance entails a lot of planning, preparation and hard work. Two crucial issues that you would have to deal with are:
• How can
employees be encouraged or motivated to come up with so many ideas?
• Who has time to deal with all of them?
After all, once
ideas start pouring in, they would each have to be evaluated, and then implemented. These are non-value adding tasks that can take up all of your valuable time. The only way you can effectively manage employee ideas is by setting up a good idea system, one that will make
process, which can become messy, organized and productive.
Profound Change
By encouraging
free flow of ideas, you will have
opportunity to bring about a profound transformation within your organization, one that could not only boost its overall performance, but would also liberate
people who work within it.
Idea systems have
power to change
very culture of an organization, by bringing about more trust, respect, openness, commitment and harmony among its people.
When employees see that their ideas are valued, their attitudes change, from one of detachment and frustration to involvement and fulfillment. This not only uplifts
quality of their lives, but also brings about real growth in
organization.
By: Regine P. Azurin Regine Azurin is
President of BusinessSummaries.com, a company that provides business book summaries of
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Regine Azurin is the President of BusinessSummaries.com, a company that provides business book summaries of the latest bestsellers for busy executives and entrepreneurs.