Innovation Books

Books on Innovation and Creativity

Books to inspire, inform and guide you.


The Difference: How the Power of Diversity Creates Better Groups, Firms, Schools, and Societies (New Edition)

The Difference: How the Power of Diversity Creates Better Groups, Firms, Schools, and Societies (New Edition)

By Scott Page
Scott Page takes us on a really engaging tour that examines why diversity matters. He quickly shows us diversity can be framed in many, many ways: and more than that, he can show proof after proof for...
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Closing the Innovation Gap: Reigniting the Spark of in a Global Economy

Closing the Innovation Gap: Reigniting the Spark of in a Global Economy

By Judith Estrin
Does innovation come about by luck or hard work? Is it a flash of inspiration or the result of careful management? Are innovators born or taught? Judith Estrin provides the answers to these and other
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The Global Brain: Your Roadmap for Innovating Faster and Smarter in a Networked World

The Global Brain: Your Roadmap for Innovating Faster and Smarter in a Networked World

By Satish Nambisan and Mohanbir Sawhney
As the landscape becomes more diverse and more confusing, there is a desperate need to better understand different models for network-centric innovation. Managers need rigorous and analytical advice o...
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Crowdsourcing: Why the Power of the Crowd Is Driving the Future of Business

Crowdsourcing: Why the Power of the Crowd Is Driving the Future of Business

By Jeff Howe
First identified by journalist Jeff Howe in a June 2006 Wired article, “crowdsourcing” describes the process by which the power of the many can be leveraged to accomplish feats that were once the
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The Starfish and the Spider: The Unstoppable Power of Leaderless Organizations

The Starfish and the Spider: The Unstoppable Power of Leaderless Organizations

By Ori Brafman and Rod Beckstrom
What's the hidden power behind the success of Wikipedia, craigslist, and Skype? What do eBay and General Electric have in common with the abolitionist and women’s rights movements? What fundamental
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Cracking Creativity: The Secrets of Creative Genius

Cracking Creativity: The Secrets of Creative Genius

By Michael Michalko
Michael does not simply show problems in creativity without a creative plan-of-action for facilitation. He brings creative solutions to mind and elaborates on them in detail. He gives many examples fo...
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Rethinking the Future: Rethinking Business, Principles, Competition, Control & Complexity, Leadership, Markets, and the World

Rethinking the Future: Rethinking Business, Principles, Competition, Control & Complexity, Leadership, Markets, and the World

By Rowan Gibson
From this all-star cast of today's most highly-regarded business philosophers, futurists and practitioners comes a panoramic perspective of how organizations can be redesigned to thrive in tomorrow's
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Global Remix: The Fight for Competitive Advantage

Global Remix: The Fight for Competitive Advantage

By Richard Scase
Global Remix examines the challenges faced by Western businesses as a result of the rise of Asian, Eastern European, and Latin American economies and highlights the opportunities it affords. Issues ad...
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Here Comes Everybody: The Power of Organizing Without Organizations

Here Comes Everybody: The Power of Organizing Without Organizations

By Clay Shirky
"How do trends emerge and opinions form? The answer used to be something vague about word of mouth, but now it's a highly measurable science, and nobody understands it better than Clay Shirky. In this...
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Out of Our Minds: Learning to be Creative

Out of Our Minds: Learning to be Creative

By Ken Robinson
"I shall add Ken Robinson's absorbing account of creativity to my personal list of gems. I was sorry to reach the end of the text, as it had maintained its momentum throughout. The reading may finish,...
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Strategic Intuition: The Creative Spark in Human Achievement (Columbia Business School)

Strategic Intuition: The Creative Spark in Human Achievement (Columbia Business School)

By William Duggan
Whether the subject is art, science, or business, William Duggan takes us on a fascinating exploration into how the human brain connects experience and knowledge to create entirely new ideas in moment...
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Innovate Like Edison: The Success System of America's Greatest Inventor

Innovate Like Edison: The Success System of America's Greatest Inventor

By Michael Gelb, Sarah Miller Caldicott
Back in the fifties, Thomas Edison was quite rightly represented to us as the epitome of American industry and innovation. Some of us may have wondered how he did that. Gelb and Caldicott describe fiv...
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How to Have Kick-Ass Ideas: Get Curious, Get Adventurous, Get Creative

How to Have Kick-Ass Ideas: Get Curious, Get Adventurous, Get Creative

By Chris Barez-Brown
Not only does it offer a variety of insights into how to generate great ideas, it offers up actionable and realistic ways to apply this thinking within your organization. The book feels alive. Bavez-B...
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Leadership for the Common Good: Tackling Public Problems in a Shared-Power World

Leadership for the Common Good: Tackling Public Problems in a Shared-Power World

By Barbara C. Crosby, John M. Bryson
First published in 1992, this book presented a revolutionary approach to community and organizational leadership in a shared-power world. Now, in this completely revised and updated edition, the autho...
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Group Creativity: Innovation through Collaboration

Group Creativity: Innovation through Collaboration

By Paul B. Paulus, Bernard A. Nijstad
Most research and writing has focused on individual creativity. Yet, in recent years there has been an increasing acknowledgment of the importance of the social and contextual factors in creativity. E...
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The Back of the Napkin: Solving Problems and Selling Ideas with Pictures

The Back of the Napkin: Solving Problems and Selling Ideas with Pictures

By Dan Roam
The premise behind Roam's book is simple: anybody with a pen and a scrap of paper can use visual thinking to work through complex business ideas. Management consultant and lecturer Roam begins with a
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Disrupting Class: How Disruptive Innovation Will Change the Way the World Learns

Disrupting Class: How Disruptive Innovation Will Change the Way the World Learns

By Clayton M. Christensen, Curtis W. Johnson, Michael B. Horn
According to recent studies in neuroscience, the way we learn doesn't always match up with the way we are taught. If we hope to stay competitive-academically, economically, and technologically—w...
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The New Age of Innovation: Driving Cocreated Value Through Global Networks

The New Age of Innovation: Driving Cocreated Value Through Global Networks

By C.K. Prahalad and M.S. Krishnan
From the greatest minds in business today comes a groundbreaking new blueprint for executing the next stage of customer-created value. C.K. Prahalad, the world's premier business thinker, and IT schol...
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Mavericks at Work: Why the Most Original Minds in Business Win

Mavericks at Work: Why the Most Original Minds in Business Win

By Polly G. LaBarre and William C. Taylor
Fast Company cofounder William C. Taylor and Polly LaBarre, a longtime editor at the magazine, give you an inside look at the "most original minds in business" wherever they find them: from Pro...
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Expect the Unexpected (or You Won't Find It): A Creativity Tool Based on the Ancient Wisdom of Heraclitus

Expect the Unexpected (or You Won't Find It): A Creativity Tool Based on the Ancient Wisdom of Heraclitus

By Roger von Oech
Von Oech uses 30 of Heraclitus's pithy and paradoxical epigrams to approach problems in a fresh manner. He explains his premise: "Creative thinking involves imagining familiar things in a new light, d...
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