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WHAT PEOPLE ARE SAYING

Business Leaders

Ideas Are Free does a terrific job of capturing the extraordinary benefits of effective “idea generation processes” that unleash the total people power of any organization that strives for excellence.

Tom Malone President and Chief Operating Officer
Milliken & Company
Winner of both the Malcolm Baldrige National Quality Award and the European Quality Award

In the drive to stay competitive, too many managers overlook the greatest source of new ideas – their own front-line employees. Ideas Are Free, a clear and concise prescription for turning an organization into an idea machine,…will inspire any manager who believes, as I do, that only the innovative thrive!

Jeff Taylor
Founder and Chief Monster Monster.com

Alan Robinson and Dean Schroeder provide an invaluable blueprint of how to unlock one of the great assets that is frequently untapped in business -- employee ideas. Ideas Are Free is a must read for every manager.

Richard A. Goldstein
Chairman and Chief Executive Officer International Flavors and Fragrances, Inc.

Until you take time to listen, you will never realize the potential in the ideas your employees. Ideas Are Free explains the role every manager plays in unleashing this huge potential.

Bruce Hertzke Chairman and CEO
Winnebago Industries

Robinson and Schroeder shine a bright light on an often-overlooked opportunity – unleashing the ideas from the employee base. They show you … the powerful role these ideas have in a high performance culture and creating a sustainable advantage.

Bob Warstler President
Global Sales
Lucent Technologies

Ideas Are Free is a refreshingly insightful book that managers at all levels should read. It spells out how to take advantage of your most valuable asset – the combined intellectual capital of all of your people.

Donald V. Fites
Former CEO Caterpillar, Inc

In Ideas Are Free, the authors capture the essence of tapping the talent that already exists in an organization for improvement – and its importance.

John F. Smith, Jr.
Retired Chairman and CEO, General Motors Corporation
Chairman-elect, Delta Airlines

Other Authors

Ideas are Free is an engaging guide for tapping the sources of valuable innovation. Its message is clear and useful.

Clayton M. Christensen
Robert and Jane Cizik Professor of Business Administration Harvard Business School

Author of Ideas Are Free shows how a good idea has no bounds and how pursuing such ideas is the essence of everyone's job today. Robinson & Schroeder outline a workable plan for tapping into this unlimited resource and harnessing its potential.

Bob Nelson, Ph.D.
Best-selling author of 1001 Ways to Reward Employees, 1001 Ways to Take Initiative at Work, and Please Don't Just Do What I Tell You: Do What Needs to Be Done!

Business Media [Ideas Are Free] makes the compelling case that wasting ideas results in diminished performance and employees who aren’t fully engaged with their work…This empowering book is a refreshingly simple examination of how corporate creativity can happen... Fast Company [Y]ou have an opportunity to make major improvements in your business by following the basic guidelines set forth in this book. I rate this book 5 1/2 stars, a first in this category. It's that powerful. (Only the Bible and the Constitution receive 6 stars.)

Paul Tulenko, Ph.D
Syndicated Small Business Columnist, Scripps-Howard

An interesting new book … the authors tell real success stories and offer practical tips about mining and implementing those ideas.

Tim McGuire
Syndicated Columnist Charlotte Observer

Robinson and Schroeder explain how companies that welcome ideas can thrive.

The San Francisco Chronicle

One of the 30 best business books of the year….

Soundview Executive Book Summaries

Throw out employee suggestion boxes. Think twice about dangling monetary rewards to workers whose ideas save the company money. These are just two of the surprising yet well-documented messages in Ideas Are Free…

American Way
American Airlines in-flight magazine

In their groundbreaking new book … Robinson and Schroeder have a message for today’s overburdened, stressed-out managers and supervisors: the solution to your problems is closer than you realize – it lies within the people who work for you.

The American Management Association

Wherever you sit in the hierarchy, read Ideas Are Free to seize powerful ideas about potential gains for your organization's progress and prosperity.

Lead Well Institute

Ideas Are Free is excellent reading and … can inspire a manager to tap into any organization’s greatest untapped natural resource… it’s people!

weLead Online Magazine

Ideas are Free is the definitive book on getting - and applying - business-transforming ideas from frontline employees.

SHRM Society for Human Resource Management

This is the quintessential book on how to foster and leverage free ideas from employees. It’s a must read for any project manager responsible for delivering programs designed to increase sales, increase productivity, increase customer satisfaction, and increase company employee morale. Read it today. Use it tomorrow.

Brand Autopsy

I highly recommend Ideas Are Free to all managers and entrepreneurs who wish to tap into the benefits of employee ideas.

Brainvester.com

If you’re sick of your ideas being ignored, this empowering book is a refreshingly simple explanation of how corporate creativity can happen.

Fast Company

Thanks to [Ideas Are Free], we can say goodbye to the suggestion box, and hello to profits.

Lisa Nirell
San Diego Daily Transcript

For any manager interested in creating an environment that encourages ideas, Ideas Are Free is an engaging and practical resource.

Gretchen Hartke
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