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Think like a rocket scientist : simple strategies you can use to make giant leaps in work and life

Ozan O. Varol, Author | New York (United States) : PublicAffairs | 2020

A former rocket scientist reveals the habits, ideas, and strategies that will empower you to turn the seemingly impossible into the possible. Rocket science is often celebrated as the ultimate triumph of technology. But it's not. Rather, it's t[...]

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The innovator's dilemma : when new technologies cause great firms to fail

Clayton M. Christensen, Author | Boston, Mass. : Harvard Business Review Press | The management of innovation and change series | 2016

Christensen explains why most companies miss out on new waves of innovation. No matter the industry, he says, a successful company with established products "will" get pushed aside unless managers know how and when to abandon traditional busines[...]

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The Oxford handbook of creativity, innovation, and entrepreneurship

Christina E. Shalley, Editor ; Michael A. Hitt, Editor ; Jing Zhou | Oxford : Oxford University Press | 2015

Research-based investigations of creativity, innovation, and entrepreneurship have the potential to inform each other and enrich our knowledge of each of these areas, particularly with regard to cognitive processes and effective behaviors. Yet, [...]

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Creativity, Inc. : overcoming the unseen forces that stand in the way of true inspiration /

Edwin E. Catmull, Author ; Amy Wallace, Author | Toronto : Random House Canada | 2014

"Creativity, Inc. is a book for managers who want to lead their employees to new heights, a manual for anyone who strives for originality, and the first-ever, all-access trip into the nerve center of Pixar Animation--into the meetings, postmorte[...]

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How to kill a unicorn : how the world's hottest innovation factory builds bold ideas that make it to market /

Mark Payne, Author | New York : Crown Business | 2014

The president of innovation consultancy firm Fahrenheit 212 describes the company's methodology for combining "magic" with money to bring to market unique products and ideas that will transform a company's business and growth

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Creative conspiracy : the new rules of breakthrough collaboration /

Leigh L. Thompson, Author | Boston, Mass. : Harvard Business Review Press | 2013

"Embracing the Counterintuitive Side of Collaboration ... Think of your to-do list at work. Chances are the most important tasks require you to work with others--and the success of those endeavors depends on the effectiveness of your collaborat[...]

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Designing for growth : a design thinking tool kit for managers

Jeanne Liedtka, Author ; Tim Ogilvie, Author | [S.l.] : Columbia University Press | 2011

Jeanne Liedtka and Tim Ogilvie educate readers in one of the hottest trends in business: “design thinking,” or the ability to turn abstract ideas into practical applications for maximal business growth. Liedtka and Ogilvie cover the mind-set, te[...]

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Designing for growth : a design thinking tool kit for managers

Jeanne Liedtka, Author ; Tim Ogilvie, Author | [S.l.] : Columbia University Press | 2011

Jeanne Liedtka and Tim Ogilvie educate readers in one of the hottest trends in business: “design thinking,” or the ability to turn abstract ideas into practical applications for maximal business growth. Liedtka and Ogilvie cover the mind-set, te[...]

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The innovator's dilemma : the revolutionary book that will change the way you do business

Clayton M. Christensen, Author | [S.l.] : Harper Business | 2011

An analysis of the new business paradigm shows how firms that do "everything right" can nevertheless fail because of new technologies and disruptions in the market structure.

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The innovator's DNA : mastering the five skills of disruptive innovators /

Jeff Dyer, Author ; Hal B. Gregersen, Author ; Clayton M. Christensen, Author | Boston, Mass. : Harvard Business Review Press | 2011

"In The Innovator's DNA, the authors identify five capabilities demonstrated by the best innovators: · Associating: drawing connections between questions, problems, or ideas from unrelated fields · Questioning: posing queries that challenge comm[...]

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Juice : the creative fuel that drives world-class inventors

Evan I. Schwartz | [S.l.] : Harvard Business School Press | 2004

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