Books to inspire, inform and guide you.

The Culture of Collaboration

By Eva Rosen
Evan Rosen has consolidated the latest ideas on collaboration and brought them together into an informative and practical book. Collaboration is becoming more and more important whether you are trying...
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Different Thinking: Creative Strategies for Developing the Innovative Business

By Anja Foerster and Peter Kreuz
Provides examples and inspiration to bring the reader a step closer to those successful unconventional thinkers who change the world and a step further away from the broad mass of hangers-on who do wh...
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Team Players and Teamwork, Completely Updated and Revised: New Strategies for Developing Successful Collaboration

By Glenn M. Parker
In the new edition of Team Players and Teamwork Glenn Parker updates his landmark compendium on the essential effect of cross-functional teamwork to encompass the added complexities of globalization f...
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Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln

By Doris Kearns Goodwin
The life and times of Abraham Lincoln have been analyzed and dissected in countless books. Do we need another Lincoln biography? In Team of Rivals, esteemed historian Doris Kearns Goodwin proves that ...
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X-teams: How to Build Teams That Lead, Innovate and Succeed

By Deborah Ancona and Henrik Bresman
The book expands our thinking about teams...comfortable reading, broken down into clear sections... --The Globe & Mail, September 26, 2007 The authors dive into the nitty-gritty details of engine...
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Ideaship: How to Get Ideas Flowing in Your Workplace

By Jack Foster
Innovative, original ideas are a company’s most powerful competitive advantage. Nathan Mhyrvold, former chief technology officer at Microsoft, has said that a great employee is worth 1,000 times mor...
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How to Get Ideas

By Jack Foster
How To Get Ideas answers the basic questions of where do ideas come from, why do some people get so many of them, and is there some secret technique to getting more of them. How To Get Ideas answers t...
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The Act of Creation

By Arthur Koestler
The second volume in Koestler's trilogy on the human mind is an study of the processes of creativity and imagination in which Koestler explains that humans are most creative when rational thought is a...
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The Grace of Great Things: Creativity and Innovation

By Robert Grudin
The Grace of Great Things is the second book in Robert Grudin's triptych of philosophical essays about the art of living. Here Grudin's focus is not so much on the mystery of where innovative genius c...
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A Technique for Producing Ideas

By James Young
Since its publication in 1965, A Technique for Producing Ideas has helped thousands of advertising copywriters smash through internal barriers to unleash their creativity. Professionals from poets and...
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The Wisdom of Teams: Creating the High-Performance Organization

By Jon R. Katzenbach, Douglas K. Smith
The authors, who are both consultants, conducted extensive interviews with companies to discover how successful teams are created and sustained. The result is not a research report but a collection of...
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Organizational Learning and Competitive Advantage

By Bertrand Moingeon, Amy Edmondson
Organizations need to develop learning strategies to survive and develop in increasingly uncertain and changing markets. In this book, researchers from Europe and the United States explore theories of...
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Senior Leadership Teams: What It Takes to Make Them Great

By Ruth Wageman, Debra A. Nunes, James A. Burruss, J. Richard Hackman
An organization's fate hinges on its CEO--right? Not according to the authors of Senior Leadership Teams. They argue that in today's world of neck-snapping change, demands on leaders in top roles are ...
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Leading Teams: Setting the Stage for Great Performances

By J. Richard Hackman
Teams have more talent and experience, more diverse resources, and greater operating flexibility than individual performers. So why do so many teams either struggle unpleasantly toward an unsatisfacto...
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Groups That Work (and Those That Don't): Creating Conditions for Effective Teamwork

By J. Richard Hackman
Explores the design and leadership of groups, providing detailed descriptions of twenty-seven diverse work groups--including task forces, top management groups, production teams, and customer service ...
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The Discipline of Teams: A Mindbook-Workbook for Delivering Small Group Performance

By Jon R. Katzenbach and Douglas K. Smith
The authors, who are both consultants, conducted extensive interviews with companies to discover how successful teams are created and sustained. The result is not a research report but a collection of...
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How to Be a Creative Genius (in five minutes or less)

By Gary Unger
Do you want to be a creative genius? You may be only five minutes away! In this book author and advertising consultant Gary Unger exposes common misconceptions about creativity with his unique blend o...
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Who Are You When Nobody's Looking?

By Marc Marsan
Who Are You When Nobody's Looking? represents a genuine breakthrough in the self-development field. For the first time, the creative techniques that nurture new ideas and products for leading American...
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Longitude: The True Story of a Lone Genius Who Solved the Greatest Scientific Problem of His Time

By Dava Sobel
The thorniest scientific problem of the eighteenth century was how to determine longitude. Many thousands of lives had been lost at sea over the centuries due to the inability to determine an east-wes...
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Orchestrating Collaboration at Work: Using Music, Improv, Storytelling, and Other Arts to Improve Teamwork

By Arthur VanGundy, Linda Naiman
Orchestrating Collaboration at Work is an activity book for trainers, coaches, mediators and facilitators, who want to use the arts to create transformative learning experiences in organizations. All ...
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