Everybody wants innovationor do they? Creative People Must Be Stopped shows how individuals and organizations sabotage their own best intentions to encourage outside the box thinking. The author demonstrates that the antidote to this self-defeating behavior is to identify which of the six major types of constraints are hindering innovation: individual, group, organizational, industry-wide, societal, or technological. Once innovators and other leaders of organizational change understand exactly which constraints are working against them and how to overcome them, they can create conditions that foster innovation instead of stopping it in its tracks. The authors model of constraints on innovation integrates insights from the vast literature on innovation with his own observations of hundreds of organizations. Filled with assessments, tools, and real-world examples, his book gives people in organizations the conceptual framework and practical information they need to innovate successfully. The authors research has been featured in the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, London Guardian and San Jose Mercury News, as well as on Fox News and on NPRs Marketplace Includes illustrative examples from leading organizations Offers a practical guide for bringing new ideas to fruition even within a previously rigid organizational culture
