The John Adair Handbook of Management and Leadership

Chapter 4: Creativity and innovation 71 The Generation of ideas It is interesting to note that organisations can get ideas from, ...

Suggestion schemes can work provided people on all sides know that: all ideas from everyone will be listened to every idea dese ...

Chapter 4: Creativity and innovation 73 Free-wheel – anything goes, the wilder the better Quantity – the more ideas the merrier ...

Successful brainstorming by managers can be achieved by asking yourself these questions: 1 Do you use it whenever appropriate? 2 ...

Chapter 4: Creativity and innovation 75 Characteristics of innovators As a manager you should possess these skills/qualities: 1 ...

Summary and six-month follow-up test The seven habits of successful creative thinkers are: 1 Thinking outside the apparent confi ...

Chapter 4: Creativity and innovation 77 Do you now deal in ideas generated from many different sources? Have you created innovat ...

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Chapter 5 Part 1: Personal reminders and thoughts worth thinking Introduction Time management Setting and achieving goals and ob ...

Introduction This section will look at the main areas covered in the first part of the book and will offer: i) personal reminder ...

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‘Never put off until tomorrow what you can do today.’ Lord Chesterfield A personal sense of time There is nothing which I wish m ...

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‘An inch of gold cannot buy an inch of time’ Chinese proverb He who every morning plans the transactions of the day and follows ...

Chapter 5: Personal reminders and thoughts worth thinking 85 ‘Do you love life? Then do not squander time, for that is the stuff ...

‘He slept beneath the moon, He basked beneath the sun He lived a life of going-to-do And died with nothing done.’ Epitaph of Jam ...

Chapter 5: Personal reminders and thoughts worth thinking 87 ‘Time wastes our bodies and our wits, But we waste Time, so we are ...

88 The John Adair Handbook of Management and Leadership ‘Remember that time is money!’ Benjamin Franklin Controlling the Cabinet ...

Chapter 5: Personal reminders and thoughts worth thinking 89 Particularly when a non-Cabinet Minster is asked to attend, especia ...

90 The John Adair Handbook of Management and Leadership ‘The unexpected caller, pleasant or unpleasant, disturbs the pattern of ...