Summer Innovation Reading List

Well, we’ve had a pretty cool summer so far in Boston, but now with the 4th of July behind us, the summer weather has finally arrived.  That of course can only mean one thing.  It’s time to chill the Riesling and pull out the summer reading list.

This summer I am catching up on long list of titles, some new and some old, that have been on my need to read list.  Here’s my reading list for the summer:

• The Game-Changer: How You Can Drive Revenue and Profit Growth with Innovation (A.G. Lafley and Ram Charan)
• Grabbing Lightning: Building a Capability for Breakthrough Innovation (G. C. O'Connor)
• Made to Stick: Why Some Ideas Survive and Others Die (Chip Heath and Dan Heath)
• The Innovator's Guide to Growth (Scott Anthony, Mark Johnson, Joseph Sinfield, and Elizabeth Altman)
• Overcoming Inventoritis (Peter Paul Roosen and Tatsuya Nakagawa)
• The Ecology of Commerce (Paul Hawken)
• Biomimicry: Innovation Inspired by Nature (Janine M. Benyus)
• Nanotechnology: Science, Innovation, and Opportunity (Lynn E. Foster)
• Outside Innovation: How Your Customers Will Co-Design Your Company's Future (Patricia B. Seybold)
• Innovation and Entrepreneurship (Peter F. Drucker)
• The Ten Faces of Innovation: IDEO's Strategies for Defeating the Devil's Advocate and Driving Creativity Throughout Your Organization (Thomas Kelley and Jonathan Littman)

What’s on your reading list?

Comments

[Jim Belfiore]

There's no lack of books on innovation these days. Some of them are even good. ;-)

'Made to Stick' is a good read. 'The Ten Faces...' is a nice sequel to Tom Kelley's 'The Art of Innovation'.

Right now, I'm in the middle of:

"The Necessary Revolution" (Peter Senge) - a discussion on sustainable societies, and a proxy for green innovation.

"Brain Rules" (John Medina)

"Thinkertoys" (Michael Michalo)

"The Back of the Napkin" (Dan Roam)

"A Nuclear Family Vacation" (Nathan Hodge) - Admittedly this is my guilty pleasure reading for the summer.

[Jim Belfiore]

Add to my list, "Global Brain - Your Roadmap for Innovating Faster and Smarter in a Networked World" (Satish Namisan, Mohanbir Sawhney).