Quality & Performance Excellence 6th Edition by James Evans

Exercise 30

In his book Weird Ideas That Work (New York: Free Press, 2002), Robert I. Sutton suggests11½ practices for promoting, managing, and sustaining innovation. These include:
• hiring "slow learners" (of the organizational code);
• hiring people who make you uncomfortable, even those you dislike;
• encouraging people to ignore and defy superiors and peers;
• finding some happy people and getting them to fight;
• thinking of some ridiculous or impractical things to do, then planning to do them; and
• forgetting the past, especially your company's successes.
Why do you think these practices work (If you have few ideas, you should probably read the book!)