Creative People Must Be Stopped

Introduction: Creative People Must Be Stopped!

1. The Context of Innovation: Why Everyone Wants Innovation but No One Wants to Change
2. Why Most of Us Are More Creative Than We Think: Individual Innovation Constraints
3. Why a Brainstorm Meeting Can Be Worse Than No Meeting at All: Innovation Constraints in Groups
4. Why You'll Never Be a Prophet in Your Hometown: Organizational Innovation Constraints
5. If It's Such a Great Idea, Why Isn't Our Competitor Doing It? Industry Innovation Constraints
6. Why My Innovation Means You Have to Change: Societal Innovation Constraints
7. How to Take a Really Hard Problem and Make It Completely Impossible: Technological Innovation Constraints
8. When Failure Is Not an Option: Leading an Innovation Strategy

Appendix A: Using the Assessment Results
Appendix B: Innovation Team Contract Guidelines
Appendix C: An Innovation Bookshelf
References
Acknowledgments
About the Author
Index