Visit Linda Naiman’s collection of books on leadership, creativity, and innovation on Amazon:
How to Be an Explorer of the World: Portable Life Museum How to Be an Explorer of the World: Portable Life Museum [...]
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 [...]
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, [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
How do innovators come up with groundbreaking new ideas? If it were possible to discover the inner workings of the masters’ minds, what could [...]
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 [...]
Creative Thinkering: Putting Your Imagination to Work: Available on Amazon Here are some terrific examples of connecting diverse stimuli to generate creative [...]
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 [...]
One of the most enjoyable aspects of co-authoring of Orchestrating Collaboration at Work, was interviewing some of the leading researchers and pioneers in [...]
We need to play more. Most of us work too hard and we don’t take enough time to play. Play generates joy and [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
It takes more than just math puzzles to grow your brain The brains of highly successful people function differently from those of the average [...]
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.
The Necessity of Play “What do most Nobel Laureates, innovative entrepreneurs, artists and performers, well-adjusted children, happy couples and families, and the most successfully [...]
