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Lessons in Creativity from IDEO, America's Leading Design Firm IDEO, the world's leading design firm, is the brain trust that's behind some of the more brilliant innovations of the past 20 years--from the Apple mouse, the Polaroid i-Zone instant camera, and the Palm V to the "fat" toothbrush for kids and a self-sealing water bottle for dirt bikers. Not surprisingly, companies all over the world have long wondered what they could learn from IDEO, to come up with better ideas for their own products, services, and operations. In this terrific book from IDEO general manager Tom Kelley (brother of founder David Kelley), IDEO finally delivers--but thankfully not in the step-by-step, flow-chart-filled "process speak" of most how-you-can-do-what-we-do business books.
Art of Innovation by Tom Kelley
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Birth of the Chaordic Age by Dee W. Hock
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In Birth of the Chaordic Age, Dee Hock argues that traditional organizational forms can no longer work because organizations have become too complex. Hock advocates a new organizational form that he calls "chaordic," or simultaneously chaotic and orderly. He credits the worldwide success of VISA to its chaordic structure: It is owned by its member banks, which both compete with each other for customers and cooperate by honoring one another's transactions across borders and currencies. The book shows how these same chaordic concepts are now being put into practice in a broad range of business, social, community, and government organizations.
Birth of the Chaordic Age by Dee W. Hock
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Digital Aboriginal by Mikela & Philip Tarlow
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The Direction of Business Now: Instinctive, Nomadic, and Ever-Changing
Digital Aboriginal, by Mikela Tarlow with Philip Tarlow, proposes a rather unique approach for those seeking innovative ways to stay abreast of today's high-tech business environment: reach back to the "magical, networked, multidimensional world" of the aborigines for inspiration and direction. The authors--she's a specialist in organizational learning, he's an internationally recognized artist--believe knowledge of the nomadic ways of the desert meshes perfectly with the modern needs of the workplace. In four sections that look into aboriginal behavior in the context of the digital age, they show how various key aspects can be appropriated with mostly familiar strategies and skills. They do this by examining information as a digital commodity, myths, stories, and rituals and the shaping of culture and commerce, independence, privacy, and human interaction in relation to peak performance, and moving permanently outside the box on the road to living differently.
Digital Aboriginal by Mikela & Philip Tarlow
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Free Agent Nation by Daniel H. Pink
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The Future of Working for Yourself
Widely acclaimed for its engaging style and provocative perspective,Free Agent Nation has helped thousands transform their working lives. Now the paperback edition of this business bestseller features an all-new section: a comprehensive 30-page resource guide that explains the basics of working for yourself (how to get started, where to find health insurance, how to market yourself) and includes 101 Free Agent Survival Tips culled from successful solo workers nationwide. Hip and hopeful, Free Agent Nation will change and your thinking – and maybe even change your life. Read it today to free yourself tomorrow.
Free Agent Nation by Daniel H. Pink
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Future of Success by Robert B. Reich
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Working and Living in the New Economy. With the clarity and insight that are his hallmarks, Reich delineates what success has come to mean in our time. He demonstrates that although we have more choices as consumers, and investors, the choices themselves are undermining the rest of our lives. It is getting harder for people to be confident of what they will be earning next year, or even next month. At the same time, our society is splitting into socially stratified enclaves--the wealthier walled off and gated, the poorer isolated and ignored. Although the trends he discusses are powerful, they are not irreversible, and Reich makes provocative suggestions for how we might create a more balanced society and more satisfying lives. Some of his ideas may surprise you, all should spark a healthy–and essential–national debate.
Future of Success by Robert B. Reich
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Inspirational Leadership: Destiny, Calling and Cause by Lance H. K. Secretan
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Lance Secretan is one of the most important leadership teachers of our time. he is changing the world by reawakning spirit and values at work, teaching the kind of leadership for which followers are yearning. Inspirational Leadership is a groundbreaking, visionary manifesto for leaders who want to make the world a better place by running the best organizations on the planet.
Inspirational Leadership offers a radical theory of leadership based on the leadership practices of some of the greatest leaders of all time as well as many inspiring leaders of organizations today. The model of spiritual leadership proposed by this book contrasts to the theories of leadership widely practiced in modern organizations and in society.
Inspirational Leadership: Destiny, Calling and Cause by Lance H. K. Secretan
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New Rules for the New Economy by Kevin Kelly
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10 Radical Strategies for a Connected World
Forget supply and demand. Forget computers. The old rules are broken. Today, communication, not computation, drives change. We are rushing into a world where connectivity is everything, and where old business know-how means nothing. In this new economic order, success flows primarily from understanding networks, and networks have their own rules. In New Rules for the New Economy, Kelly presents ten fundamental principles of the connected economy that invert the traditional wisdom of the industrial world.
Succinct and memorable, New Rules explains why these powerful laws are already hardwired into the new economy, and how they play out in all kinds of business--both low and high tech--all over the world. More than an overview of new economic principles, it prescribes clear and specific strategies for success in the network economy. For any worker, CEO, or middle manager, New Rules is the survival kit for the new economy.
New Rules for the New Economy by Kevin Kelly
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Tipping Point by Malcolm Gladwell
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How Little Things Can Make a Big Difference
In this brilliant and groundbreaking book, New Yorker writer Malcolm Gladwell looks at why major changes in our society so often happen suddenly and unexpectedly. Ideas, behavior, messages, and products, he argues, often spread like outbreaks of infectious disease. Just as a single sick person can start an epidemic of the flu, so too can a few fare-beaters and graffiti artists fuel a subway crime wave, or a satisfied customer fill the empty tables of a new restaurant. These are social epidemics, and the moment when they take off, when they reach their critical mass, is the Tipping Point.
Tipping Point by Malcolm Gladwell
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Visionary's Handbook by Watts Wacker
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Nine Paradoxes That Will Shape the Future of Your Business
In The Visionary's Handbook, Watts Wacker and Jim Taylor refuse to paint a simplistic picture of the future, instead, they show where to look for the insight needed to compete and grow in the years ahead. Authors of the prophetic The 500 Year Delta, they now proclaim the Age of the Individual -- a world where life has never been more difficult, because it has never been easier. Today, individuals have far more power to claim their own futures than ever before, which means they have to follow four major rules to chart their courses:
Know who you are.
Know where you want to go.
Recognize your own seminal moments.
Adopt an attitude of insurgency.
Visionary's Handbook by Watts Wacker
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Weird Ideas That Work by Robert I. Sutton
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11 1/2 Practices for Promoting, Managing, and Sustaining Innovation
Creativity, new ideas, innovation -- in any age they are keys to success, but in today's whirlwind economy they are essential for survival itself. Yet, as Robert Sutton explains, the standard rules of business behavior and management are precisely the opposite of what it takes to build an innovative company. We are told to hire people who will fit in, to train them extensively, and to work to instill a corporate culture in every employee. In fact, in order to foster creativity, we should hire misfits, goad them to fight, and pay them to defy convention and undermine the prevailing culture. Weird Ideas That Work codifies these and other proven counterintuitive ideas to help you turn your workplace from staid and safe to wild and woolly -- and creative.
Weird Ideas That Work by Robert I. Sutton
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