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Out of a list of 90 books related to innovation, the following were chosen
by a group of avid readers and innovation practitioners as the reading list for
2006.
It was a difficult choice but these 12 were chosen for their ability to stimulate
thought and offer practical tools and techniques to help make you a more
productive advocate and leader of innovation.
We highly recommend each of these books and will feature them in our unique
innovation book club which begins in January. Book club members will have access
to reviews, readers' guides, Q&A sessions with the authors, weekly emails
with insights and highlights from the books, as well as a blog where readers
can make comments.
Read It Your Way!
While the selected books are put into a monthly format, you can read them any
time and in any order.
(It will take a few weeks for the information on all books to be on the blog,
however.) For an even
more powerful … and fun … process, gather a group of your associates
once a month and have a
book discussion. The reader’s guide offers great discussion questions to
help you integrate the book
content with your specific situation.
Join the book club today and get a head start on this fun learning adventure
that might just give you a career boost in 2006. Even if you decide not to join
the book club, we recommend reading these books and have provided convenient
purchase links to amazon.com and information links to author sites.
| Click
here to join today |
Fee: |
Individual Reading Group |
$150 |
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Corporate Reading Groups |
$750 |
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(unlimited groups for one organization) |
| Month |
Book & Author(s) |
| Jan |
The
Ten Faces of Innovation by Tom Kelley, IDEO |
| Feb |
How
Breakthroughs Happen, the Surprising Truth about How Companies Innovate by Andrew Hargadon,
Associate Professor of Management, University of California, Davis |
| Mar |
Blue
Ocean Strategy: How to Create Uncontested Market Space and Make the Competition
Irrelevant by W. Chan Kim and
Renee Mauborgne |
| Apr |
The
Leader’s Guide to Storytelling, Mastering the Art and Discipline of Business
Narrative by Stephen Denning |
| May |
The
Tipping Point by Malcolm Gladwell |
| Jun |
Let
My People Go Surfing: The Education of a Reluctant Businessman by Yvon Chouinard |
| Jul |
Punished
by Rewards, the Trouble with Gold Stars, Incentive Plans, A’s, Praise,
and Other Bribes by Alfie Kohn |
| Aug |
The
Medici Effect: Breakthrough Insights at the Intersection of Ideas, Concepts
& Cultures by Frans Johansson |
| Sep |
The
Art of Possibility by Benjamin and Rosemund Zander |
| Oct |
Mavericks at Work: Why the Most Original Minds in Business Win
by William
C. Taylor, Polly G. LaBarre |
| Nov |
How
to Think Like Leonardo DaVinci by Michael Gelb |
| Dec |
Creativity
at Work, Developing the Right Practices to Make Innovation Happen by Jeff DeGraff and Katherine Lawrence |
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ALTERNATIVE SELECTIONS |
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Dealing
with Darwin: How Great Companies Innovate at Every Phase of their Evolution by
Geoffrey A. Moore |
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The
World Is Flat, a Brief History of the Twenty-first Century by Thomas L. Friedman |
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