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20% Doctrine How Tinkering, Goofing Off, and Breaking the Rules at Work Drive Success in Business

The 20% Doctrine: How Tinkering, Goofing Off, and Breaking the Rules at Work Drive Success in Business

By Ryan Tate

Tate reveals how innovation is being fueled by passionate workers that can explore. With examples from Yahoo, Shake Shack, W Hotel, and Google, this book is a bold new roadmap for shareholders, CEOs, and every worker who is critical to their company's success.

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Book Information

Publisher: Harper Business
Publish Date: 04/17/2012
Pages: 208
ISBN-13: 9780062003232
ISBN-10: 0062003232
Language: English

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December 12, 2012

Over the course of this week, we will be posting the shortlist selections for our 8 business book categories: General Business, Leadership, Management, Innovation/Creativity, Small Business/Entrepreneurship, Marketing/Sales, Personal Development, Finance. Then on Monday, December 17th, we'll announce the category winners, and, on Wednesday, December 19th, we'll celebrate the overall winner of the 2012 800-CEO-READ Business Book Awards! Stay tuned. READ FULL DESCRIPTION

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Gawker tech-blogger and journalist Ryan Tate reveals how businesses can inspire greater creativity and productivity by giving employees the freedom to experiment and explore their passions.

We're at a crossroads. Many iconic American companies have been bailed out or gone bankrupt, while others are fighting to survive ever-increasing digitization and globalization.

In The 20% Doctrine, Tate examines how companies large and small can incubate valuable innovative advances by making small, specific changes to how work time is approached within their corporate cultures. The concept of "20% Time" originated at Google, but Tate takes examples from powerful businesses like Yahoo , National Public Radio, Flickr, and the Huffington Post to demonstrate how flexibility and experimentation can revolutionize any business model.

By pursuing their passion projects, employees can fuel innovation and foster new ideas. Only through a new devotion to the unhinged and the ad hoc can American businesses resume a steady pace of development and profitability.

--Kirkus Reviews

About the Author

Ryan Tate is the technology gossip blogger for Gawker. com and a veteran business journalist whose posts are read 2. 5 million times by 700,000 people per month.

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