books about: innovations     books:       Thinkertoys: A Handbook of Creative-Thinking Techniques (2nd Edition)64 reviews Michael Michalko Ten Speed Press, 2006 An Essential Guide for Creative Thinking This book, together with my treasured Roger von Oech books, sit prominently on my bookshelf when working on a variety of problems - software development, film production, creative writing for scripts or novels, and developing opportunities in this mediacentric age. These books break open your mind from the restrictive fences imposed on our thinking by the conventional world that we are ...             Disrupting Class: How Disruptive Innovation Will Change the Way the World Learns13 reviews Clayton M. Christensen, Curtis W. Johnson, ... McGraw-Hill, 2008 If you have children or grandchildren - you need to buy and read this book Rocket Builders most influential author, Christensen, with his co authors has taken his theory of disruptive innovation and focused on the education sector. The authors do not lay blame but with Christensen's laser sharp analysis, peel back all the root causes of public perception and changing goal posts for education and what it has done to the institution over time. He then goes on to ...             Blue Ocean Strategy: How to Create Uncontested Market Space and Make Competition Irrelevant166 reviews W. Chan Kim, Renée Mauborgne Harvard Business School Press, 2005 Strategy will always include opportunity and risk Strategy: 1. In blue oceans, competition is irrelevant because the rules of the game are waiting to be set. Companies need to go beyond competing. To seize new profit and growth opportunities, they also need to create blue oceans. 2. Put the clock forward 20 to 50 years and ask yourself how many unknown industries will exist. Surprisingly, many of the unknown industries will exist. 3. ...             Good to Great: Why Some Companies Make the Leap... and Others Don't702 reviews Jim Collins Collins Business, 2001 Worth for its price I don't need much to write here as hundreds of people has written review for this book. In simple terms the book is easy to read & understand. Analyze how best companies manage to retain their position by innovative & intelligent leadership. Research is sound & findings are really interesting. This book would be useful for any leader (or follower) even if they are not into financial sector. The ...             The First Days Of School: How To Be An Effective Teacher286 reviews Harry K. Wong; Rosemary T. Wong Harry K. Wong Publications, 2004 New Teacher Reference I bought this for my daughter who was starting her first job as a high school math teacher. She heard from a friend that it was very helpful for new teachers.             The Art of Possibility: Transforming Professional and Personal Life101 reviews Rosamund Stone Zander, Benjamin Zander Penguin (Non-Classics), 2002 In my top ten of favorite books I read a lot. I average 2-4 non-fiction books a month. Zander's book - The Art of Possibility - is in my top ten list. I read it one or two times every year. It doesn't get old. I was very fortunate to be part of a conference a few years ago where Dr. Zander spoke for two hours. It was the single-most powerful presentation I've ever seen. He takes that same energy and passion and weaves ...             The World Is Flat 3.0: A Brief History of the Twenty-first Century1159 reviews Thomas L. Friedman Picador, 2007 Read it or weep! Simply put, this is a book that any student of business or politics needs to read to claim currency. It's insightful, controversial, yet raises valid arguments for globalization. In summary---"You can't put the genie back in the bottle" so get with the program or be left behind.             Made to Stick: Why Some Ideas Survive and Others Die217 reviews Chip Heath, Dan Heath Random House, 2007 Made to Stick This book was sent to my home in less than three business days. I did not have to leave the comfort of my home!             Our Iceberg Is Melting: Changing and Succeeding Under Any Conditions63 reviews John Kotter, Holger Rathgeber, ... St. Martin's Press, 2006 Great book I have read John Kotter's previous work on leading change so I was curious as to whether his concepts could be effectively conveyed in fable form. To my delight, I discovered that Kotter put his own findings about the power of stories to work to create an engaging story that conveys his principles about organizational change more powerfully. By reading this book, my staff and colleagues remember ...             The Innovator's Dilemma: The Revolutionary Book that Will Change the Way You Do Business (Collins Business ...158 reviews Clayton M. Christensen Collins Business, 2003 Disrupt your competitors, not your customers! With the Innovator's Dilemma, Clayton Christensen delivers a very powerful analysis of the role of innovation in gaining market leadership. The question raised is whether market leadership can be sustained through innovation alone. Indeed, the core of the Innovator's Dilemma illustrates how successful companies with established solutions, marquee customers and a valued brand keep being ...             A Demon of Our Own Design: Markets, Hedge Funds, and the Perils of Financial Innovation48 reviews Richard Bookstaber Wiley, 2007 Want to understand the current financial crisis? Bookstaber has written a cogent, understandable and witty guide to the structural and human underpinnings of the current financial crisis. While this book requires thoughtful reading, it does not assume that the reader is technically savvy about markets or the plethora of financial instruments that have come to have such a dramatic impact on U.S. and world economies. I unhesitatingly recommend ...             The Lexus and the Olive Tree: Understanding Globalization403 reviews Thomas L. Friedman Anchor, 2000 The Lexus and the Olive Tree This book provides a very good understanding of globilisation by integrating various issues and concepts with critical, illustrative and at times poignant examples. This helps appreciate what globilisation means currently and the historical summary helps explain how we got to where we are today. Consequently we are better able to forecast trends and determine meaningful business and social ...             Crossing the Chasm94 reviews Geoffrey A. Moore Collins Business, 2002 How companies "grow up" Having already read the sequel, Inside the Tornado, I wondered whether this book had essentially been summarized in that one. While the basic premise of the technology adoption lifecycle is common to both books, this book, as the name implies, gives much more focus and detail to the stage of "crossing the chasm". This translates to the time between the first few big sales (from innovators) and ...             Closing the Innovation Gap: Reigniting the Spark of in a Global Economy7 reviews Judy Estrin McGraw-Hill, 2008 How to establish and then sustain a healthy innovation ecosystem If I fully understand Judy Estrin's key points (and I may not), there are at least two "gaps" that need to be reduced, if not closed: between where innovation in the US once was and where it is now as well as between where innovation in the US is now and where it could (and should) be. One of the important - and most useful -- terms on her book is "innovation ecosystem." In an Introduction that ...             The Big Switch: Rewiring the World, from Edison to Google30 reviews Nicholas Carr W. W. Norton, 2008 Really two books in one For those who know or care about the infrastructure undergirding our technology revolution, this is a must-read book. The thesis is simple: we're at a tipping point where "utility computing" will quickly replace in-house data centers. It sounds simple, but the implications are not. The first half of the book lays out and describes the revolution, sometimes in breathless terms. The second half ...             Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking956 reviews Malcolm Gladwell Little, Brown and Company, 2005 Intuition is No Simple Subject Matter to "Thin-Slice" - Gladwell does it Well! Gladwell (intuition/"thin-slicing"), Coleman (emotional intelligence/"limbic high-jacking"), De Bono (lateral thinking/"water logic")... Brains within brains... Thinking without thinking... Thinking about thinking... The states of non-duality and no-mind of not thinking at all and just being... The lotus of consciousness is still flowering, it seems... The pollen of popularization is still ...             Purple Cow: Transform Your Business by Being Remarkable179 reviews Seth Godin Portfolio Hardcover, 2003 A good recommendation This book has been recommended to me by several others and I finally had time to pick it up and read it cover to cover. Seth Godin is the guru on marketing and how to set yourself apart from the competition. I was impressed at how quickly I finished this book, both his style of writing is easy to follow and is direct and to the point. His lessons are very simple but often overlooked and under ...             The Game-Changer: How You Can Drive Revenue and Profit Growth with Innovation13 reviews A.G. Lafley, Ram Charan Crown Business, 2008 Best Business Book Ever Having started, built, and sold my first business to McGraw-Hill and written four business books since, I know a first class business book when I see one. "The Game Changer" is beyond fist class. It is in a space of its own. The prose is clean and deceptively clear. You risk reading it too quickly. This book is like Kissinger's "Diplomacy": every paragraph is a meal. Two to five pages a ...             Green to Gold: How Smart Companies Use Environmental Strategy to Innovate, Create Value, and Build ...18 reviews Daniel C. Esty, Andrew S. Winston Yale University Press, 2006 Green to Gold Esty and Winston seem to be a perfect duo to write this book. Together they have a very strong and complementing background, ranging from experiences in academics and government to green and strategy consulting. The result is a book that has the right balance of theory and practice. While many books on green business only focus on the bright side, Esty & Winston are more realistic. They admit ...             Born Digital: Understanding the First Generation of Digital Natives1 review John Palfrey, Urs Gasser Basic Books, 2008 Excellent. There is nothing more important than the safety of our children. There is also nothing more important than the education, creativity and innovation that has been, and can still further be, unleashed and harnessed with suitably crafted policies, and incentives, focused on the issues surrounding their use of digital media and other digital technologies, whether such policies and incentives come ...              search for books advantage, companies, competition, competitive, conditions, creative-thinking, disrupting, disruptive, environmental, essentials, financial, game-changer, generation, globalization, innovation, innovator, irrelevant, possibility, professional, reigniting, remarkable, revolutionary, succeeding, techniques, thinkertoys, transform, transforming, twenty-first, uncontested, understanding books:    Kindle - Amazon's New Wireless Reading Device This is the future of book reading. I have used it and love it! randomly chosen book: Skeleton Canyon (Joanna Brady Mysteries, Book 5) leave a comment home  impressum - about us