Books to inspire, inform and guide you.
The Little Black Book of Innovation: How It Works, How to Do ItBy Scott D. AnthonyInnovation may be the hottest discipline around today—in business circles and beyond. And for good reason. Innovation transforms companies and markets. It’s the key to solving vexing social proble... [BUY NOW FROM AMAZON.COM] |
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Best Practices Are Stupid: 40 Ways to Out-Innovate the CompetitionBy Stephen M. ShapiroWhat if almost everything you know about creating a culture of innovation is wrong? What if the way you are measuring innovation is choking it? What if your market research is asking all of the wrong [BUY NOW FROM AMAZON.COM] |
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Econovation: The Red, White, and Blue Pill for Arousing InnovationBy Steve FaktorOver the last 20 years, China fed our zombie-like appetite for iPhones, Prada and Snuggies. At the same time, its biggest customer, the US, found itself in debt, under-educated, and covered with recre... [BUY NOW FROM AMAZON.COM] |
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Relentless Innovation: What Works, What Doesn’t--And What That Means For Your BusinessBy Jeffrey PhillipsGiven today’s business landscape—increasing customer demand, global competition, lower trade barriers—being good isn’t enough. This groundbreaking guide provides the knowledge and tools you ne... [BUY NOW FROM AMAZON.COM] |
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Innovation You: Four Steps to Becoming New and ImprovedBy Jeff DeGraffIn today’s frenetic, uncertain world, the “same old, same old” routines are perfect ways to go nowhere fast. What has worked for you before—professionally or personally—no longer gets result... [BUY NOW FROM AMAZON.COM] |
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Winning at Innovation: The A-to-F ModelBy Fernando Trías de Bes, Philip KotlerInnovate or Die! Companies that cannot innovate and develop new products, strategies and technologies to keep ahead in today's fastpaced market will not succeed. Winning at Innovation presents a groun... [BUY NOW FROM AMAZON.COM] |
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Reinventing Discovery: The New Era of Networked ScienceBy Michael NielsenIn Reinventing Discovery, Michael Nielsen argues that we are living at the dawn of the most dramatic change in science in more than 300 years. This change is being driven by powerful new cognitive too... [BUY NOW FROM AMAZON.COM] |
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The Intuitive Compass: Why the Best Decisions Balance Reason and InstinctBy Francis CholleA dynamic new way to understand intuition, already implemented around the world at top companies and business schools Neuroscience shows that instinct has a leading role in complex decision-making,... [BUY NOW FROM AMAZON.COM] |
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Unlocking Energy Innovation: How America Can Build a Low-Cost, Low-Carbon Energy SystemBy Richard K. Lester, David M. HartEnergy innovation offers us our best chance to solve the three urgent and interrelated problems of climate change, worldwide insecurity over energy supplies, and rapidly growing energy demand. But if [BUY NOW] |
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Knowledge Integration and Innovation: Critical Challenges Facing International Technology-Based FirmsBy Christian Berggren, Anna Bergek, Lars Bengtsson, Jonas Soderlund, Michael HobdayTechnology-based firms continue to compete primarily on innovation, and one continuously required to present new solutions to an exacting market. As technological complexity and specialization intensi... [BUY NOW FROM AMAZON.COM] |
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Where Good Ideas Come From: The Natural History of InnovationBy Steven JohnsonJohnson--writer, Web guru, and bestselling author of Everything Bad Is Good for You--delivers a sweeping look at innovation spanning nearly the whole of human history. What sparks our great ideas? Joh... [BUY NOW] |
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One Simple Idea: Turn Your Dreams into a Licensing Goldmine While Letting Others Do the WorkBy Stephan KeyFor as long as you can remember, you’ve had a dream. You’ve longed to see your product idea come to fruition so you never have to work for anyone else again. Stephen Key has been living this dr... [BUY NOW FROM AMAZON.COM] |
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Innovation in a Reinvented World, + Website: 10 Essential Elements to Succeed in the New World of BusinessBy Dee McCroreyA step-by-step guide to the 10 essential and practical skills a business needs to innovate and thrive in uncertain times The reinvented world of business will profoundly impact America's leaders an... [BUY NOW FROM AMAZON.COM] |
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The Lean Startup: How Today's Entrepreneurs Use Continuous Innovation to Create Radically Successful BusinessesBy Eric RiesMost startups fail. But many of those failures are preventable. The Lean Startup is a new approach being adopted across the globe, changing the way companies are built and new products are launched. [BUY NOW FROM AMAZON.COM] |
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The Progress Principle: Using Small Wins to Ignite Joy, Engagement, and Creativity at WorkBy Teresa Amabile, Steven KramerWhat really sets the best managers above the rest? It’s their power to build a cadre of employees who have great inner work lives—consistently positive emotions; strong motivation; and favorable p... [BUY NOW FROM AMAZON.COM] |
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Creative Thinkering: Putting Your Imagination to WorkBy Michael MichalkoWhy isn’t everyone creative? Why doesn’t education foster more ingenuity? Why is expertise often the enemy of innovation? Best-selling creativity expert Michael Michalko shows that in every field [BUY NOW] |
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Nanovation: How a Little Car Can Teach the World to Think Big and Act BoldBy Dr. Kevin Freiberg, Jackie Freiberg, Dain DunstonNanovation is a story of how a little car is teaching the world to think big. One dreary, rainy morning in India, Ratan Naval Tata, the Chairman of the Tata Group, was driving to work, right behind... [BUY NOW FROM AMAZON.COM] |
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Managing Innovation: Integrating Technological, Market and Organizational ChangeBy Joe Tidd, John BessantManaging Innovation is an established, bestselling text for MBA, MSc and advanced undergraduate courses on management of technology, innovation management and entrepreneurship. It is also used widely [BUY NOW FROM AMAZON.COM] |
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The Innovator's Manifesto: Deliberate Disruption for Transformational GrowthBy Michael RaynorIn this compelling new book, Michael E. Raynor, coauthor of the national bestseller The Innovator’s Solution, shows that Disruption, Clayton M. Christensen’s landmark theory that explains how frin... [BUY NOW FROM AMAZON.COM] |
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The Digital Innovation Playbook: Creating a Transformative Customer ExperienceBy Nicholas J. WebbA complete and practical road map to achieving unprecedented business success through digital innovation excellence. In this breakthrough book, world-renowned innovation strategist Nicholas J. Webb... [BUY NOW FROM AMAZON.COM] |