Say Everything: How Blogging Began, What It’s Becoming, and Why It Matters
July 21, 2009
Author: Scott Rosenberg Date Published: 7/07/2009 Price: $26 Editorial Review Consumer Review Summary Description: Blogs are everywhere. They have exposed truths and spread rumors. Made and lost fortunes. Brought couples together and torn them apart. Toppled cabinet members and sparked grassroots movements. Immediate, intimate, and influential, they have put the power of personal publishing into everyone’s hands. Regularly dismissed as trivial and ephemeral, they have proved that they are here... Read more »
Free: The Future of a Radical Price
July 21, 2009
Author: Chris Anderson Date Published: 7/07/2009 Price: $26.99 Editorial Review Consumer Review Summary Description: From Publishers Weekly Starred Review. In the digital marketplace, the most effective price is no price at all, argues Anderson (The Long Tail). He illustrates how savvy businesses are raking it in with indirect routes from product to revenue with such models as cross-subsidies (giving away a DVR to sell cable service) and freemiums (offering Flickr for free while selling the superior... Read more »
Innovation Myths and Mythstakes
July 21, 2009
Author: Timothy Coffey, David Siegel, Mark Smith Date Published: 6/01/2009 Price: $39.95 Random Page from the Book Editorial Review Description: The all-new book that explodes the myths about innovation, while turning conventional wisdom upside down, is here. Finally, an entertaining and useful book on innovation that is that is written in an innovative style – beginning with the fact that the book s Afterword comes first. How many of these business-killing myths do YOU (and your boss) still... Read more »
Hidden Champions of the Twenty-First Century: The Success Strategies of Unknown World Market Leaders
July 21, 2009
Author: Hermann Simon Date Published: 6/10/2009 Price: $34.95 Random Page from the Book Editorial Review Description: What do Tetra aquarium supplies, Elector-Nite sensors, and Nissha touch panels have in common? They are typical “hidden champions,” medium-sized, unknown companies (with annual revenues under $4 billion) that have quietly, under the radar, become world market leaders in their respective industries. Hermann Simon has been studying these hidden champions for over 20 years,... Read more »
After the Car
July 21, 2009
Author: Kingsley Dennis, John Urry Date Published: 6/29/2009 Price: $19.95 Random Page from the Book Editorial Review Description: It is difficult to imagine a world without the car, and yet that is exactly what Dennis and Urry set out to do in this provocative new book. They argue that the days of the car are numbered: powerful forces around the world are undermining the car system and will usher in a new transport system sometime in the next few decades. Specifically, the book examines how several... Read more »
Wild Design: Ecofriendly Innovations Inspired by Nature
July 21, 2009
Author: Alan Marshall Date Published: 7/14/2009 Price: $18.95 Editorial Review Description: In Wild Design, environmental designer and scientist Alan Marshall presents a manifesto on nature-inspired designs, including visionary concepts as well as exhibits of actual products, landscapes, and artwork from around the world. With elegant photographs and drawings, the book incorporates the ethos of sustainability by documenting many of the results of the Ecomimicry Project, an international experiment... Read more »
The Rudolph Factor: Finding the Bright Lights that Drive Innovation in Your Business
July 21, 2009
Author: Cyndi Laurin, Craig Morningstar Date Published: 7/14/2009 Price: $21.95 Random Page from the Book Editorial Review Consumer Review Summary Description: The Rudolph Factor uses Boeing C-17′s successful transformation as a platform for teaching organizations how to elicit and benefit from the creative, revolutionary thinking of current employees. A small percentage of hypercreative, out-of-the-box thinkers can be the catalyst for organization-wide reform—if you can recognize and nurture... Read more »
Tools for Innovation
July 21, 2009
Author: Arthur B. Markman, Kristin L. Wood Date Published: 7/11/2009 Price: $45 Editorial Review Description: It is widely known that innovation is crucial to sustain success in business, government, and engineering. But capturing the effective means of fostering innovation remains elusive. How can organizations actively promote innovation, which arises from a complex combination of cognition and domain expertise? Researchers across an array of fields are studying innovation, with exciting new... Read more »
The Age of the Unthinkable: Why the New World Disorder Constantly Surprises Us And What We Can Do About It
July 20, 2009
Author: Joshua Cooper Ramo Price: $25.99 Random Page from the Book Editorial Review Consumer Review Summary Description: From Publishers Weekly Starred Review. Former foreign editor of Time, Ramo pushes the reader into uncomfortable yet exhilarating places with controversial ways of thinking about global challenges (e.g., studying why Hezbollah is the most efficiently run Islamic militant group). His book, which lays bare the flaws in current thinking on everything from American political influence... Read more »
Ignore Everybody: and 39 Other Keys to Creativity
July 20, 2009
Author: Hugh MacLeod Price: $23.95 Editorial Review Consumer Review Summary Description: Now his first book, Ignore Everyone, expands on his sharpest insights, wittiest cartoons, and most useful advice. Read More →
Innovation Evolution
