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    Across organizations in services, manufacturing, healthcare and government, eighty percent of an organization’s improvement potential lies in front-line ideas.

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    After years of operating in a top-down manner that emphasizes control and conformance, organizations are rife with obstacles to bottom-up ideas that front-line staff are forced to overcome.

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    Employee ideas illustrate the profound understanding of a company's capabilities and customers that only people working on the front-lines can possess.

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    Research has found that in most companies managers who get promoted rapidly spend most of their time networking and politicking, while their more effective colleagues spent their time building their units and developing their people.

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    Try this: Identify a bottom-up improvement or innovation in your organization, and interview the person who championed it. Chances are you will find a hero story of some kind. Why do we have to be heroes to implement perfectly good ideas?

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    Very few managers know how to effectively tap the biggest source of performance improvement available to them: namely, the creativity and knowledge of the people who work for them.

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    What is the financial return of that idea?' is often not the smartest question to ask. While numbers are certainly important, they tell only part of the story—and often not the most important part. Cost-benefit analysis (CBA) should be used to inform decisions, not to make them.