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Weird Ideas That Work: How to Build a Creative Company

by Robert I. Sutton · 2001

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Introduces the proven rules that a company can use to promote innovation, arguing that the corporate world should hire misfits and encourage them to defy the existing culture and actively consider ideas that appear ridiculous or impractical.

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businessbusinessMore like thisLess of thispsychologypsychologyMore like thisLess of this
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creativitycreativityMore like thisLess of thisworkworkMore like thisLess of this
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adult
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medium · 335 pages

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