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What’s the Big Idea? Additional Resources for Creativity and Innovation
“Arriving at Aha”, Ami DiCresce, Wayne Medicine, Wayne State University School of Medicine, 2004
The Art of Innovation: Lessons in Creativity from IDEO, America’s Leading Design Firm , Tom Kelley
with Jonathan Littman, Currency/Doubleday, 2001
The Art of Possibility: Transforming Personal and Professional Life, Rosamund Stone Zander and
Benjamin Zander, Harvard Business School Press, 2000
The Back of the Napkin: Solving Problems and Selling ideas with Pictures, Dan Roam, Portfolio, 2008
Blink: The Power of Thinking without Thinking, Malcolm Gladwell, Little Brown and Co, 2005
Borrowing Brilliance, David Cord Murray, www.changethis.com/63.02.BorrowingBrilliance
Breakthrough Creativity: Achieving Top Performance Using the Eight Creative Talents, Lynne C
Levesque, Davies-Black Publishing, 2001
Breakthrough Thinking for Non-Profit Organizations: Creative Strategies for Extraordinary Results,
Bernard Ross and Clare Segal, Jossey-Bass, 2003
“Breakthrough Thinking from Inside the Box”, Kevin P. Coyne, Patricia Gorman Clifford, Renee Dye,
Harvard Business Review, December 2007
Creativity: Flow and the Psychology of Discovery and Invention, Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi, HarperCollins
Publishers, 1996
Creativity, Inc: Building an Inventive Organization, Jeff Mauzy and Richard Harriman, Harvard Business
School Press, 2003
Explaining Creativity: The Science of Human Innovation, R. Keith Sawyer, Oxford University Press, 2006
The Fifth Discipline: The Art and Practice of the Learning Organization (revised), Peter Senge, Currency.
2006
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The Geography of Thought: How Asians and Westerners Think Differently, and Why, Richard E Nisbett
Free Press, 2003
Good to Great, Jim Collins, Harvard Business School Press, 2001
Group Creativity: Innovation through Collaboration, Paul B Paulus and Bernard A Nijstad, editors,
Oxford University Press, 2003
Group Genius: The Creative Power of Collaboration, Keith Sawyer, Basic Books, 2007
Handbook of Creativity, Robert J Sternberg, editor, Cambridge University Press, 1999
Head First: 10 Ways to Tap into your Natural Genius, Tony Buzan, Thorsons/Harper Collins, 2000
The Hothouse Effect: Intensify Creativity in your Organization Using Secrets from History’s Most
Innovative Communities, Barton Kunstler, AMACOM/American Management Association, 2004
“How Successful Leaders Think”, Roger Martin, Harvard Business Review, June 2007
How to Get Ideas, Jack Foster, Berrett-Koehler Publishing, Inc (2nd edition), 2007
“How to Kill Creativity”, Teresa M Amabile, Harvard Business Review, September/October 1998
How to Think Like Einstein: Simple Ways to Break the Rules and Discover Your Hidden Genius, Scott
Thorpe, Sourcebooks, 2000
Ideaspotting: How to Find Your Next Great Idea. Sam Harrison, How Books, 2007
Improv Yourself: Business Spontaneity at the Speed of Thought, Joseph A. Keefe, John Wiley and Sons,
Inc, 2003
The Innovator’s Toolkit, David Silverstein, Philip Samuel and Neil DeCarlo John Wiley and Sons, 2009
Jamming: The Art and Discipline of Business Creativity, John Kao, Harper Business, 1996
Jump Start your Brain, Doug Hall with David Wecker, Warner Books, 1995
Learning to Use What you Already Know, Stephen A Stumpf and Joel R. DeLuca, Berrett-Koehler
Publishers, 1994
Lightning in a Bottle: The Proven System to Create New Ideas and Products that Work, David Minter
and Michael Reid, Sourcebooks, Inc, 2006
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Made to Stick: Why Some Ideas Survive and Others Die, Chip and Dan Heath, Random House, 2007
Managing Creativity and Innovation, HBR Essentials, Harvard Business School Press, 2003
The Medici Effect: What Elephants and Epidemics can Teach us about Innovation, Frans Johansson,
Harvard Business School Press, 2006
Mindset: Reset Your Thinking and See the Future, John Naisbitt, Harper Collins, 2006
The Myths of Innovation, Scott Berkun, O’Reilly Media Inc, 2007
99% Inspiration: Tips, Tales and Techniques for Liberating your Business Creativity, Bryan M.
Mattimore, American Management Association, 1994
101 Creative Problem Solving Techniques, revised edition, James M. Higgins, New Management
Publishing Co, 2006
“The Power and Perils of Intuition” , David G. Myers, Scientific American Mind, June/July 2007
Six Thinking Hats (rev and updated edition), Edward de Bono, Little Brown and Co, 1999
The 60 Second Innovator, Jeff Davidson, Adams Media, 2009
Smart World: Breakthrough Creativity and the New Science of Ideas, Harvard Business School Press,
2007
Social Intelligence: The New Science of Human Relationships, Daniel Goleman, Bantam, 2006
Sources of Power: How People Make Decisions, Gary Klein, Cambridge MA, MIT Press, 1998
A Technique for Producing Ideas, James Webb Young, McGraw Hill, 2003 (first published 1965)
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 Currency/Doubleday, 2005
Think Better: An Innovator’s Guide to Productive Thinking, Tim Hurson, McGraw Hill, 2008
Thinkertoys: A Handbook of Creative Thinking Techniques, Second Edition, Michael Michalko Ten
Speed Press, 2006
Thinking Clockwise: A Field Guide for the Innovative Leader, Dennis Stauffer, MinneApple Press, 2005
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The Tipping Point: How Little Things Can Make a Big Difference, Malcolm Gladwell, Little Brown and
Co, 2000
Training to Imagine: Practical Improvisational Theater Techniques to Enhance Creativity, Teamwork,
Leadership and Learning, Kat Koppett, Stylus Publishing, 2001
A Whack on the Side of the Head, Roger von Oech, Business Plus, 2008 edition
When Sparks Fly: Igniting Creativity in Groups, Dorothy Leonard and Walter Swap, Harvard Business
School Press, 1999
Why Not? How to Use Everyday Ingenuity to Solve Problems Big and Small, Barry Nalebuff and Ian
Ayres, Harvard Business School Press, 2003
The Wisdom of Crowds: Why the Many are Smarter than the Few and How Collective Wisdom Informs
Business, Economies, Societies and Nations, James Surowiecki, Doubleday, 2004
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