Learn More About Innovation
Books we recommend:
Leading on the Creative Edge: Gaining Competitive Advantage Through the Power of Creative Problem Solving by Roger L. Firestien, PhD. Leaders play a vital role in nurturing and developing other's creativity. Whether you lead a multi-million dollar corporation, help a volunteer group, coach Little League, or work for a non-profit organization, leaders make the difference between whether their employees’ creativity is nurtured or destroyed. "Leading on the Creative Edge" provides you with the vital information you need to take your leadership to a new level. Purchase at Amazon.com
You Are What You Think by David Gonzalez. An easy-to-read look at how your perceptions shape your reality… and what you can do about it. For more information, go here
Why Didn’t I Think of That? A Personal and Professional Guide to Better Ideas and Decision Making by Roger Firestien. A fable about creativity and innovation that is a quick, fun read. In about one hour you will learn 10 tools to help you become deliberately creative, develop more options, work more effectively in teams and evaluate the ideas of others without idea slaughtering. Please call (716) 631-3564 for more information.
More Lightning, Less Thunder — How to Energize Innovative Teams, a fun and value-packed book by Bob Eckert and Jonathan Vehar, that lays out the attitudes and behaviors that make you a great contributor to innovation when interacting with others. Learn more here
Creative Sparks
How are you going to keep the need to constantly improve innovation skills front and center in your thinking? What is your strategy to challenge your people to be a little more skilled every dayin the tools and attitudes of innovation teams? What you’ll find here are a few creative sparks to fire up innovative thinking on a daily basis. Free, downloadable posters to put in your newsletters and hang on your walls. Alone, they won’t do much more than get things to a slow smolder… but as part of an overall strategy; they’ll contribute to a fire that you can really cook on!
The day you think you’ve learned everything you need to about innovation is the day you should fire yourself. Get real. Making our individual and collective brains work as well as they can is an almost impossible task. Almost, but still worth pursuing because your competition is thinking about how to be more innovative too. Which one of you will get there faster? The one that works to learn more… the one that takes innovation more seriously. Sorry. That’s just the way it is. We say this as a friend. We like you. You’re exploring our site. We want you to succeed. Your curiosity got you this far… keep going.