Books to inspire, inform and guide you.
The Game-Changer: How You can Drive Revenue and Profit Growth with InnovationBy A.G. Lafley, Ram CharanBlessings to Procter & Gambleāor, more exactly, its chairman and CEO, A. G. Lafley. Together with Charan, author of Know-How (2007) (and the most probable successor to management guru Peter F. Druck... [BUY NOW FROM AMAZON.COM] |
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Organize with ChaosBy Joseph J. Roevens, Robin Michael RowleyThe authors expose the foundations of current management theory and practice to be over 300 years old. They argue that most of our current assumptions are either only half right or totally obsolete fo... [BUY NOW FROM AMAZON.COM] |
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Seizing the White Space: Business Model Innovation for Growth and RenewalBy Mark W. JohnsonThis title presents a practical approach to fuel game changing growth through business model innovation. Transformational new growth remains the Holy Grail for many organizations. But a deep understan... [BUY NOW FROM AMAZON.COM] |
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Exploiting Chaos: 150 Ways to Spark Innovation During Times of ChangeBy Jeremy Gutsche"Jeremy is a walking, talking, breathing trend, a living example of what happens when you take your own advice. With his ideas, you might catch an ideavirus." -Seth Godin, author of Tribes "Rebell... [BUY NOW FROM AMAZON.COM] |
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Design Thinking: Integrating Innovation, Customer Experience, and Brand ValueBy Thomas LockwoodDesign Thinking is packed with intriguing case studies and practical advice from industry experts. This anthology is organized into three sections that focus on the use of design for innovation... [BUY NOW FROM AMAZON.COM] |
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IdeaSelling: Successfully Pitch Your Creative Ideas to Bosses, Clients & other Decision MakersBy Sam HarrisonFrom time to time we all make the mistake of believing ideas should sell themselves. Not so. As a matter of fact, the better and bolder the idea, the more it needs selling. In this book are thoughts, [BUY NOW FROM AMAZON.COM] |
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Zing!: Five Steps and 101 Tips for Creativity On CommandBy Sam HarrisonA five-step process for generating big ideas in business, personal, and professional contexts is outlined in this high-energy guide to the creative process. Real-world anecdotes and inspirational mess... [BUY NOW FROM AMAZON.COM] |
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IdeaSpotting: How to Find Your Next Great IdeaBy Sam HarrisonThe next big idea is out there - you just have to know how to spot it. Creativity is crucial to business and design success. How do you unleash bursts of creativity, increase occurrences of spontaneit... [BUY NOW FROM AMAZON.COM] |
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The Rise of the Creative Class: And How It's Transforming Work, Leisure, Community and Everyday LifeBy Richard FloridaFlorida, an academic whose field is regional economic development, explains the rise of a new social class that he labels the creative class. Members include scientists, engineers, architects, educato... [BUY NOW FROM AMAZON.COM] |
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Simplifying Innovation: Doubling speed to market and new product profits - with your existing resourcesBy Michael A. DaltonSmall Changes Can Deliver Big New Product Results. Are new products taking too long and failing to deliver the bottom-line impact you need? Now you can accelerate your growth by identifying your innov... [BUY NOW FROM AMAZON.COM] |
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The Truth About Creativity: Rules are there to be ChallengedBy Patrick HarrisThe Truth About Creativity provides a practical and example-laden journey through creativity and its talent-releasing benefits for organisations, teams and individuals. Many of the truths are new pers... [BUY NOW FROM AMAZON.COM] |
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Green to Gold: How Smart Companies Use Environmental Strategy to Innovate, Create Value, and Build Competitive AdvantageBy Daniel Esty, Andrew WinstonTwo experts from Yale tackle the business wake-up-call du jour-environmental responsibility-from every angle in this thorough, earnest guidebook: pragmatically, passionately, financially and historica... [BUY NOW FROM AMAZON.COM] |
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The Brain Advantage: Become a More Effective Business Leader Using the Latest Brain ResearchBy Madeleine L. Van Hecke, Lisa P. Callahan, Brad Kolar, Ken A. Paller"There has been so much on the brain and how it affects our behavior. Finally, here's a book that gives a one-two punch - a quick 'so what' on brain research and a set of actions that produce better l... [BUY NOW FROM AMAZON.COM] |
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Blind Spots: Why Smart People Do Dumb ThingsBy Madeleine L. Van Hecke"I have no reservations about wholeheartedly recommending this book. Behind each stupid mistake, each wrongheaded viewpoint, is a person every bit as rational as we think ourselves to be. This book al... [BUY NOW FROM AMAZON.COM] |
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Unfolding the Napkin: The Hands-On Method for Solving Complex Problems with Simple PicturesBy Dan RoamDan Roam's The Back of the Napkin, a BusinessWeek bestseller, taught readers the power of brainstorming and communicating with pictures. It presented a new and exciting way to solve all kinds of probl... [BUY NOW FROM AMAZON.COM] |
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Enterprise 2.0: New Collaborative Tools for Your Organization's Toughest ChallengesBy Andrew McAfee"Web 2.0" is the portion of the Internet that's interactively produced by many people; it includes Wikipedia, Facebook, Twitter, Delicious, and prediction markets. In just a few years, Web 2.0 communi... [BUY NOW FROM AMAZON.COM] |
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The Department of Mad Scientists: How DARPA Is Remaking Our World, from the Internet to Artificial LimbsBy Michael BelfioreAmerica's greatest idea factory isn't Bell Labs, Silicon Valley, or MIT's Media Lab. It's the secretive, Pentagon-led agency known as DARPA. Founded by Eisenhower in response to Sputnik and the Soviet... [BUY NOW FROM AMAZON.COM] |
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The Design of Business: Why Design Thinking is the Next Competitive AdvantageBy Roger L. MartinMost companies today have innovation envy. They yearn to come up with a game-changing innovation like Apple's iPod, or create an entirely new category like Facebook. Many make genuine efforts to be in... [BUY NOW FROM AMAZON.COM] |
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The Designful Company: How to build a culture of nonstop innovationBy Marty NeumeierBranding guru Marty Neumeier understands that we are all very busy, so he crafts his books to make a big impact in less than 200 pages. His previous bestsellers, The Brand Gap and Zag are provocative,... [BUY NOW FROM AMAZON.COM] |
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Sex, Leadership And Rock N' Roll: Leadership Lessons from the Academy of RockBy Peter CookAt last, a book that cuts through the jargon of leadership and personal development. It offers a real world source of inspiration and provocation in areas such as: creativity, innovation, relationship... [BUY NOW FROM AMAZON.COM] |