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ntense power of top quality with new inventions have been demonstrated by the GE company. In his now famous “workout meetings,” CEO Jack Welch brought hundreds of employees together with their managers and asked them to suggest ways to make the business better. f There is a 10 day limit for a manager’s approval of any new processes, products, methods, etc., otherwise these will be implemented without further notice or approval from management.

Through his workout meetings, Welch let employees know that he valued their creativity – and that they had nothing to worry about if they suggested new ideas or exposed inefficiencies. Brainstorming meetings at GE have developed into concrete powers of new ways of thinking resulting in prolific area inventions.

A software manufacturer in California at Broderbund gave a senior manager of new product creation the task of making an first time educational line of software to new, young programmers. One of their first innovations was assembling a user group of eight-year-old girls and boys. Broderbund’s click/point graphic interface has been superceded with a schematic that’s non-conventional and moves images and buttons that are hidden all effecting a standard of high efficiency and draws in users that are younger with advanced levels of skills.