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6 Creativity and Innovation Books for Your Office
In my experience, all ideas come from an emotion of creativity. Many ideas are easy to find. However, the breakthrough ideas need staff that is challenged to solve the greatest problems Books in this category will help you identify the problem space as well as solution space by tapping into the hearts and minds of your people.
Managing Creativity and Innovation (Harvard Business Essentials) Packed with practical information designed for business readers and managers at all levels, this essential volume offers insights on managing creativity in groups, developing creative conflict, and using technology to help foster innovation. |
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Think Better: An Innovator's Guide to Productive Thinking by TimHurson There are thousands of books about thinking. But there are very few books that provide clear how-to information that can actually help you think better. Think Better is about Productive Thinking - why it's important, how it works, and how to use it at work, at home, and at play. Productive Thinking is a game changer - a practical, easy-to-learn, repeatable process that helps people understand more clearly, think more creatively, and plan more effectively. It's based on the thinking strategies that people we celebrate for their creativity have been using for centuries. Tim Hurson brings Productive Thinking out of the closet and presents it in a way that makes it easy for anyone to grasp and use - so you can think better, work better, and do better in every aspect of your life. Think Better demonstrates how you can start with an intractable technical problem, an unmet consumer need, or a gaping chasm in your business strategy and, by following a clearly defined, practical thinking process, arrive at a robust, innovative solution. Manycompanies use the Productive Thinking model to generate fresh solutions for tough business problems, and many individuals rely on it to solve pressing personal problems. |
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Creativity and Innovation in Organizational Teams stemmed from a conference held at the Kellogg School of Management in June 2003 covering creativity and innovation in groups and organizations. Each chapter of the book is written by an expert and covers original theory about creative processes in organizations. The organization of the text reflects a longstanding notion that creativity in the world of work is a joint outcome of three interdependent forces--individual thinking, group processes, and organizational environment. |
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The author of the bestselling The Art of Innovation reveals the strategies IDEO, the world-famous design firm, uses to foster innovative thinking throughout an organization and overcome the naysayers who stifle creativity. |
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Leadership for Innovation: How to Organize Team Creativity and Harvest Ideas by John Eric Adair New ideas and new ways of doing things are one of the main ingredients in sustained business success, but how does one create the right conditions for innovation? |
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CATS: The Nine Lives of Innovation by Stephen C. Lundin It's time to let the CATS out of the bag . . . Curiosity might have killed the proverbial cat, but without it very real achievements would never occur. With this book as your guide, you'll learn how to spark your innate curiosity, pounce on problems in ways you never imagined, and enjoy greater success and satisfaction at work-and in your personal life. Playful, profound, and positively upbeat, CATS provides what you need to tap into your power of innovation-and then unleash it in every member of your organization. While most business thinkers view this challenge from the top down, Stephen Lundin sees the subject from a CAT's-eye view, explaining how to get every employee--no matter what level--to think and act in innovative ways. Inside, he examines the four challenges to innovation and offers practical measures aimed at conquering them. |
The Takeaway
Challenge your staff to think creatively about customer needs in new and unique ways.
Your Turn. Please comment below.
- What creativity and innovation books would you add to the list?
- Which of the books on the list did you enjoy the most?
- If only one book could be written on Creativity and Innovation what should its focus be?
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COMMENTS
However, for those passionate about innovation and innovators, they may be interested to read Innovation: How Innovators Think, Act and Change Our World.
The three core axioms of the book are: 1) innovation drives change - cultural, societal and economic; 2) innovation, in some form, touches each and every one of us, wherever we may be, as individuals,
communities and societies as a whole; and 3) innovators deserve recognition, celebration and applause." The !nnovation project is the embodiment of my hands clapping.
It celebrates game changers who've broken the mould in a wide range of fields including business, tech, government and social policy, the arts and advertising, media, medicine and more. I was fortunate enough to interview over 100 international innovators, business and thought leaders and shall be ever grateful that they shared their wit and wisdom, insights and expertise in the project. Their contributions have, no doubt, a massive amount to do with the excellent reviews the book has received.
"It is not often that a book appears which reaches across so many frontiers of experience and expertise as it extends an inter-generational bridge between such a wide range of ideas, inspirations and innovational thinking. I would suggest this book be core reference reading for any student of innovation and entrepreneurship - whether they are leading up to university study, in a graduate program, or partaking in the university of life." - Sandy Carter, IBM General Manager and Social Business Evangelist
posted @ Tuesday, December 31, 2013 8:49 PM by Kim Chandler McDonald
Thanks for reading the post. There is an earlier one in the series about other books. We have several more planned as well. We are always looking for cool topics to write about. Haven't been to Oz in years. Hope you are enjoying summer. We are do for a winter storm in the next couple of hours.
Rob
posted @ Wednesday, January 01, 2014 6:11 PM by Rob Berman
posted @ Friday, February 28, 2014 9:52 AM by Suresh Ogale