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If you give a good idea to a mediocre team, they'll screw it up . But if you give a mediocre idea to a great team, they'll make it work. Pixar's operating principles: 1) Everyone must have the freedom to communicate with anyone. 2) It must be safe for everyone to offer ideas. 3) We must stay close to innovation happenings in the academic community. HBR, Sept 08

A Manager's Guide to Increasing Innovation If you're trying to enhance creativity... ...remember that you are not the sole fount of ideas. * be the appreciative audience * ask the inspiring questions * allow ideas to bubble up from the workforce ...enable collaboration * combat the lone inventor myth * define "superstar" as someone who helps others succeed * Use "coordination totems" - metaphors, analogies, and stories - to help teams conceptualize together ...enhance diversity * get people with different backgrounds and expertise to work together * encourage individuals to gain diverse experiences that will increase their creativity * open up the organization to outside creative contributors ...map the stages of creativity and tend to their different needs * avoid process management in the fuzzy front end * provide sufficient time and resources for exploration * manage the hand off to commercialization ...accept the inevitability and utility of failure * c