Creativity

 

Recommended Books

The Art of Innovation: Lessons in Creativity from IDEO, America’s Leading Design Firm, Tom Kelley, Jonathan Littman

 

The Ten Faces of Innovation: IDEO’s Strategies for Beating the Devil’s Advocate and Driving Creativity Throughout Your Organization, Tom Kelley and Jonathan Littman

 

The Innovator’s Dilemma: When New Technologies Cause Great Firms to Fail, Clayton Christensen 

 

ThinkerToys:  A Handbook of Creative-Thinking Techniques, Michael Michalko

 

Mindmapping: Your Personal Guide to Exploring Creativity and Problem-Solving, Joyce Wycoff

 

The Geography of Genius: A Search for the World’s Most Creative Places from Ancient Athens to Silicon Valley, Eric Weiner

 

The Artist’s Way, Julia Cameron

 

Walking in this World: The Practical Art of Creativity, Julia Cameron

 

The War of Art: Break Through the Blocks and Win Your Inner Creative Battles, Steven Pressfield

 

The Innovators: How a Group of Hackers, Geniuses, and Geeks Created the Digital Revolution, Walter Isaacson

 

Leaders Lab: 66 Ways to Develop Your Leadership Skill, Strategy, and Style, Jane Moyer

 

Lateral Thinking: Creativity step by step, Edward de Bono

 

The Art of Possibility: Transforming Professional and Personal Life, Rosamund Stone Zander and Benjamin Zander

 

Quantum Leap Thinking: An Owner’s Guide to the Mind, James J. Mapes 

 

Organizing for the Creative Person: Right-Brain Styles for Conquering Clutter, Mastering Time, and Reaching Your Goals, Dorothy Lehmkuhl and Dolores Cotter Lamping 

 

The Medici Effect: What Elephants and Epidemics Can Teach Us About Innovation, Frans Johannson 

 

Originals: How Non-Conformists Move the World, Adam Grant 

 

Crossing the Chasm: Marketing and Selling Disruptive Products to Mainstream Customers, Geoffrey A. Moore 

 

Why Didn’t I Think of That: 101 Inventions that Changed the World by Hardly Trying, Anthony Rubino, Jr. 

 

Zero to One:  Notes on Startups, or How to Build the Future, Peter Thiel 

 

Sprint: How to Solve Big Problems and Test New Ideas in Just Five Days, Jake Knapp, John Zeratsky, Braden Kowitz 

 

Sparks of Genius: The Thirteen Thinking Tools of the World’s Most Creative People, Robert S. Root-Bernstein and Michele M. Root-Bernstein

 

IdeaStormers: How to Lead and Inspire Creative Breakthroughs, Bryan W. Mattimore 

 

Conceptual Blockbusting: A Guide to Better Ideas, James L. Adams 

 

Made to Stick: Why Some Ideas Survive and Others Die, Chip Heath & Dan Heath