Visit Linda Naiman’s collection of books on leadership, creativity, and innovation on Amazon:
These books will help you see things in new ways: What Poetry Brings to Business By Clare Morgan, with Kirsten Lange and Ted Buswick As the title suggests, this book explores the relationship between [...]
How to Be an Explorer of the World: Portable Life Museum How to Be an Explorer of the World: Portable Life Museum By Keri Smith This is a creativity book for [...]
What is the best way to motivate employees to do creative work? Help them take a step forward every day. The Progress Principle describes the findings of a multi-year research project that Teresa Amabile and [...]
When it comes to putting creativity to work, the biggest challenge usually isn’t about coming up with ideas, it’s getting those ideas listened to, accepted, and implemented in your organization. That’s why it is [...]
The Design Way: Intentional Change in an Unpredictable World by Harold G. Nelson and Erik Stolterman. MIT Press 2012 Nelson and Stolterman present design culture in terms of foundations (first principles), fundamentals (core concepts), and [...]
If you only buy one book about creating your vision, I recommend Give Your Dream a Plan: 7 Questions to Ignite Extraordinary Results in Your Business by Barbara Richards. This is the most comprehensive manual [...]
Leadership Craft Leadership Art provides cogent insights and observations on the theory and practice of leadership development "Most of the practices around the art of leadership are really about the craft of leadership," argues Steven [...]
How the World’s Greatest Artists Can Make You a More Creative Leader This is an excerpt from Every Leader is an Artist by Michael O'Malley and William Baker. Monet And The Art Of Intent [...]
I recommend these books on creativity, innovation, design, and entrepreneurship, to inspire and motivate you. Click on the links to buy these books on Amazon. The Innovator's DNA: Mastering the Five Skills of Disruptive Innovators By [...]
How do innovators come up with groundbreaking new ideas? If it were possible to discover the inner workings of the masters’ minds, what could the rest of us learn about how innovation really happens? [...]
How to Converse like Socrates: Guidelines from Socrates’ Way by Ronald Gross and Michael Gelb Until recently, when I listened to an audio-course on Socrates by Professor Michael Sugrue of Princeton University, I had [...]
Creative Thinkering: Putting Your Imagination to Work: Available on Amazon Here are some terrific examples of connecting diverse stimuli to generate creative ideas: Excerpted from “Creative Thinkering: Putting Your Imagination to Work” [...]
If you would like a more comprehensive understanding of design thinking, design inquiry, and design culture, from a systemic perspective, you will gain many useful insights from this book. The Design Way: Intentional Change in [...]
One of the most enjoyable aspects of co-authoring of Orchestrating Collaboration at Work, was interviewing some of the leading researchers and pioneers in the world of art in business, including John Seely Brown, [...]
We need to play more. Most of us work too hard and we don’t take enough time to play. Play generates joy and replenishes and revitalizes our human spirit. It clears the mental [...]
Book Review: Lost in Learning: The art of discovery by Eva Koleva Timothy This is a book of quiet beauty, filled with stories and images about learning and discovery from the great explorers, scientists and artists [...]
Does this scenario sound familiar? "Business’s infrastructure is not keeping up with us. That which was supposed to help us now dictates too much of what we can’t get done. Our tools have become [...]
Arts-based learning for business: Creatively Intelligent companies The growing use of arts-based learning reflects a dramatic shift in the boundaries that previously defined the limits of experience deemed relevant to the business world. This [...]
It takes more than just math puzzles to grow your brain The brains of highly successful people function differently from those of the average Joe, according to the authors of the new book, The [...]
Think about your creative intelligence during times of stress. What is the quality of your thinking, compared to when you are in flow states (characterized by energized focus, absorption, and being fully engaged)? I'm willing to bet your flow states produce superior results than fear-based solutions.
