Innovation Books

Books on Innovation and Creativity

Books to inspire, inform and guide you.

	Innovation Nation: How America Is Losing Its Innovation Edge, Why It Matters, and What We Can Do to Get It Back By John Kao Alarmed by the lack of innovation in the United States today, former Harvard Business School professor and current consultant John Kao diagnoses the situation, describes best practices, explains how i... [BUY NOW FROM AMAZON.COM]
	The Power of Story: Rewrite Your Destiny in Business and in Life By Jim Loehr Loehr explains how to plumb the mind's depths with honest questioning and self-regard, then to rewrite stories using three basics of storytelling-purpose, truth and action-in order to fashion a new, h... [BUY NOW FROM AMAZON.COM]
	Innovation: Create an Idea Culture. Redefine Your Business. Grow Your Profits By Tom Gorman "Innovation is the engine of the world's economy because there is no end to the problems in this world, and there never will be." Tom Gorman explores three aspects to "The Engine of Endless Success": [BUY NOW FROM AMAZON.COM]
	How to Think Like Leonardo da Vinci: Seven Steps to Genius Every Day By Michael J. Gelb Michael Gelb says that we all can unlock the "da Vincian" genius inside us. Gelb says there are seven critical principles that need to be followed for success, whether you're learning a new language, [BUY NOW FROM AMAZON.COM]
	The Opposable Mind: How Successful Leaders Win Through Integrative Thinking By Roger L. Martin "And just as we can develop and refind the skill with which we employ our opposable thumbs to perform tasks that once seemed impossible, I'm convinced we can also, with patient practice, develop the a... [BUY NOW FROM AMAZON.COM]
	We Are Smarter Than Me: How to Unleash the Power of Crowds in Your Business By Barry Libert, Jon Spector, and Don Tapscott We are Smarter than Me is the first book to show anyone in business how to profit from the wisdom of crowds. Drawing on their own research and the insights from an enormous community of more than 4,00... [BUY NOW FROM AMAZON.COM]
	The Art of Innovation: Lessons in Creativity from IDEO, America's Leading Design Firm By Tom Kelley, Jonathan Littman, Tom Peters The Art of Innovation really teaches indirectly by telling great stories -- mainly, of how the best ideas for creating or improving products or processes come not from laboriously organized foc... [BUY NOW FROM AMAZON.COM]
	Wikinomics: How Mass Collaboration Changes Everything By Don Tapscott and Anthony D. Williams Wikipedia, the user-edited online encyclopedia that now dwarfs the online version of Encyclopedia Britannica is the prime example of what is called the new Web, or Web 2.0, where sites allow mass coll... [BUY NOW FROM AMAZON.COM]
	Social Neuroscience: People Thinking about Thinking People (Social Neuroscience) By John T. Cacioppo, Penny S. Visser, and Cynthia L. Pickett Social neuroscience uses the methodologies and tools developed to measure mental and brain function to study social cognition, emotion, and behavior. In this collection, John Cacioppo, Penny Visser, a... [BUY NOW FROM AMAZON.COM]
	The Wisdom of Crowds By James Surowiecki Surowiecki first developed his ideas for Wisdom of Crowds in his "Financial Page" column of The New Yorker. Many critics found his premise to be an interesting twist on the long held notion tha... [BUY NOW FROM AMAZON.COM]
	Dialogue: The Art Of Thinking Together By William Isaacs Modern conversation is a lot like nuclear physics, lots of atoms zoom around, many of which just rush past each other. But others collide, creating friction. One guy shares a statistic he's privy to,... [BUY NOW FROM AMAZON.COM]
	Solving Tough Problems: An Open Way of Talking, Listening, and Creating New Realities By Adam Kahane Adam Kahane spent years working in the world's hotspots, and came away with a new understanding of how to resolve conflict in a way that seems reasonable to all parties. Written in a relaxed, persuasi... [BUY NOW FROM AMAZON.COM]
	Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking By Malcolm Gladwell Blink is about the first two seconds of looking--the decisive glance that knows in an instant. Gladwell, the best-selling author of The Tipping Point, campaigns for snap judgments and mind read... [BUY NOW FROM AMAZON.COM]
	Smart Mobs: The Next Social Revolution By Howard Rheingold The title of this book is a mild pun. People are using smart "mobs" (rhymes with "robes") to become smart "mobs" (rhymes with "robs"), meaning, sophisticated mobile Internet access is allowing people [BUY NOW FROM AMAZON.COM]
	The Circle of Innovation: You Can't Shrink Your Way to Greatness By Tom Peters Tom Peters presents a provocative new vision for prospering in the "permanent state of flux" ruling today's business world. By juxtaposing short text passages and bold graphic images, Peters simply bu... [BUY NOW FROM AMAZON.COM]
	When Things Start to Think By Gershenfeld Neil A computer in your shoe? Maybe so. Neil Gershenfeld, director of MIT's Media Lab, joins the ranks of techno-prognosticators, and his focus is on how the future of computing will fit into our physical [BUY NOW FROM AMAZON.COM]
	Medici Effect: What Elephants and Epidemics Can Teach Us About Innovation By Frans Johansson Johansson argues that innovations occur when people see beyond their expertise and approach situations actively, with an eye toward putting available materials together in new combinations. Because of... [BUY NOW FROM AMAZON.COM]
	The Ten Faces of Innovation: IDEO's Strategies for Defeating the Devil's Advocate and Driving Creativity Throughout Your Organization By Thomas Kelley and Jonathan Littman This book focuses on the type of worker and team-building rather than the work environment. The authors define 10 personas, including Anthropologists, who contribute insights by observing human behavi... [BUY NOW FROM AMAZON.COM]
	New Thinking for the New Millennium By Edward De Bono Edward de Bono believes that we have been let down by excellent but limited ways of thinking. He maintains that the thinking of the last millennium has been concerned with what is. This is the thinkin... [BUY NOW FROM AMAZON.COM]
	The Thinker's Toolkit: 14 Powerful Techniques for Problem Solving By Morgan D. Jones Leave it to a former CIA employee to conjure up a complicated yet definitely sensible approach to decision making. His point is that we don't know how to analyze and solve problems correctly, since we... [BUY NOW FROM AMAZON.COM]

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