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Patent Pending in 24 Hours (Paperback)By Richard Stim, David PressmanTake the first step to protecting your invention! Ready to stamp "patent pending" on your invention? Then you need to file a provisional patent application (PPA), an inexpensive way to claim your h... [BUY NOW FROM AMAZON.COM] |
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How to Make Patent Drawings: A Patent It Yourself Companion (Paperback)By Jack Lo, David PressmanOn the last couple of patent applications I submitted, I ended up doing 90% of the drawings myself because it turned out to be easier than continuously having to correct the mistakes of the draftsman.... [BUY NOW FROM AMAZON.COM] |
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The Complete Guide to Securing Your Own U.S. Patent: A Step-by-Step Road Map to Protect Your Ideas and Inventions - With Companion CD-ROMBy Jamaine BurrellWhat do all of these famous inventions have in common: air conditioning, airbags, bandages, barbed wire, blow dryers, can openers, cement, chewing gum, computers, credit cards, doughnuts, jeans, micro... [BUY NOW FROM AMAZON.COM] |
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A Sense of UrgencyBy John P. KotterBut now a distinguished author says that what so many of us really lack is a sense of urgency. Is this guy for real? He is. John Kotter, emeritus professor at Harvard Business School, has a clear and [BUY NOW FROM AMAZON.COM] |
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Leading ChangeBy John P. KotterHarvard Business School professor Kotter (A Force for Change) breaks from the mold of M.B.A. jargon-filled texts to produce a truly accessible, clear and visionary guide to the business world's buzzwo... [BUY NOW FROM AMAZON.COM] |
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Our Iceberg Is Melting: Changing and Succeeding Under Any ConditionsBy John P. KotterJohn Kotter has been on the faculty at Harvard Business School since 1972. He is the author of eleven award-winning titles and frequently gives speeches and seminars at Harvard and around the world. [BUY NOW FROM AMAZON.COM] |
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The Heart of Change: Real-Life Stories of How People Change Their OrganizationsBy John P. KotterThe Heart of Change is the follow-up to John Kotter's enormously popular book Leading Change, in which he outlines a framework for implementing change that sidesteps many of the pitfalls common to org... [BUY NOW FROM AMAZON.COM] |
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Innovation and EntrepreneurshipBy Peter F. DruckerThis is the first book to present innovation and entrepreneurship as a purposeful and systematic discipline that explains and analyzes the challenges and opportunities of America's new entrepreneurial... [BUY NOW FROM AMAZON.COM] |
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Creative CollaborationBy Vera John-Steiner"Vera John-Steiner contributes to this intellectual effort in Creative Collaboration. Her research attempts to deepen our understanding of creative achievement by exploring the relational contexts of [BUY NOW FROM AMAZON.COM] |
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A Technique for Producing IdeasBy James Webb YoungThis little book that can likely be read in about 30-45 minutes, is essentially a primer for how to go about generating ideas. Instead of handing you a fish, this book teaches you how to fish... to us... [BUY NOW FROM AMAZON.COM] |
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The Venturesome Economy: How Innovation Sustains Prosperity in a More Connected WorldBy Amar BhidéBhidé makes a detailed argument that contradicts the prevailing view of expert panels and authors who contend that the nation's prosperity is threatened by the technological rise of China and India, [BUY NOW FROM AMAZON.COM] |
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Scamper On: More Creative Games and Activities for Imagination DevelopmentBy Bob EberleScamper and Scamper On allow your students to develop their imaginations through a series of guided activities in which they imagine different events or things. "Scamper" is a creative thinking techni... [BUY NOW FROM AMAZON.COM] |
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The Art Instinct: Beauty, Pleasure, and Human EvolutionBy Denis DuttonDenis Dutton considers art from a Darwinian perspective and presents a survey of the aesthetic debate. Where Steven Pinker helps us understand the origins of human language, Dutton offers insights int... [BUY NOW FROM AMAZON.COM] |
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The Power of Innovation: How to Make Innovation a Way of Life & How to Put Creative Solutions to WorkBy Min BasadurThis book offers a unified process for releasing creativity and innovation in individuals, groups, and organizations. A highly effective process that can leverage the creative thinking skills of e... [BUY NOW FROM AMAZON.COM] |
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Driving Growth Through Innovation: How Leading Firms Are Transforming Their FuturesBy Robert B. TuckerBusiness managers know that cost-cutting measures cannot create long-term growth. Greater revenues require sustained innovation. In this book, Robert B. Tucker provides a practical method any business... [BUY NOW FROM AMAZON.COM] |
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New think: The use of lateral thinking in the generation of new ideasBy Edward de BonoThis 1967 seminal work defines the author's theory of lateral thinking as a method changing concepts and perception in order to happen upon novel and unexpected solutions to problems. The book offers [BUY NOW FROM AMAZON.COM] |
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Techniques of Structured ProblemsBy Arthur B. VanGundyThis is one of the most serious and definitive books on the subject of creative problem solving. It is full of thinking techniques for the specific steps of the creative problem solving process along [BUY NOW FROM AMAZON.COM] |
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Hope: How Triumphant Leaders Create the FutureBy Andrew RazeghiWhat are the connotations when you hear or see the word "Hope"? Is it an intangible concept? An esoteric notion? Razeghi, a writer, educator, and innovator demonstrates through illustrative storyt... [BUY NOW FROM AMAZON.COM] |
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Pretend You're NormalBy Ann Weimer BaumgardnerPretend You're Normal was an Award-Winning Finalist in the humor category of the National Indie Excellence 2007 Book Awards and several of Ann's stories have been printed in The Christian Science Moni... [BUY NOW FROM AMAZON.COM] |
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Engaged Leadership: Building a Culture to Overcome Employee DisengagementBy Clint SwindallThere are two kinds of employees—engaged and disengaged. Engaged employees are those who are dedicated to the organization's vision and eager to contribute. They are productive and live by the organ... [BUY NOW FROM AMAZON.COM] |