Title: Leadership Books to Buy or Borrow: Innovation
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Leadership books abound. All you have to do is to search on Amazon.com to find more than you can possibly read. In this section we will provide you with some interesting and recommended books on leadership and management. These books can often be borrowed through your academic or public library. If they are not available at your library, ask for InterLibrary Loan and get them that way. Your leadership book recommendations may be sent to Laura Larsson, larsson@u.washington.edu .
This particular month we look at innovation. Peter Denning was recently interviewed in Ubiquity, an online publication of Association for Computing Machinery. In part two of the interview Peter Denning draws the following distinction between innovation and invention: "An innovation is a transformation of practice in a community. It is not the same as the invention of a new idea or object. The real work of innovation is in the transformation of practice. In this definition, community can be
small, as in a workgroup, or large as in the whole world. A transformation of practice in the community won't happen unless the new practice generates more value to the members than the old. Value may not be economic; it may be pride, reputation, health, safety, freedom. Many innovations were preceded or enabled by inventions; but many innovations occurred without a significant invention." (Ubiquity, Volume 5, Issue 8, April 21 - 27, 2004,)
http://www.acm.org/ubiquity/interviews/v5i8_denning.html
Here is the list of the top 10 books on innovation, as ranked by Amazon.com. Use this list to find out what your peers are reading!
1. Good to Great: Why Some Companies Make the Leap... and Others Don't, by Jim Collins (http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0066620996/innovationtoo-20)
2. The Art of Innovation: Lessons in Creativity from Ideo, America's Leading Design Firm, by Tom Kelley. (http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0385499841/innovationtoo-20)
3. Inevitable Surprises: Thinking Ahead in a Time of Turbulence, by Peter Schwartz. (http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/1592400272/innovationtoo-20)
4. Open Innovation: The New Imperative for Creating and Profiting from Technology, by Henry William Chesbrough. (http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/1578518377/innovationtoo-20)
5. How Breakthroughs Happen: The Surprising Truth About How Companies Innovate, by Andrew Hargadon (http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/1578519047/innovationtoo-20)
6. Harvard Business Review on Innovation, by Clayton Christensen (http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/1578516145/innovationtoo-20)
7. The Map of Innovation: Creating Something Out of Nothing, by Kevin O'Connor and Paul B. Brown. (http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/1400048311/innovationtoo-20)
8. The Slow Pace of Fast Change: Bringing Innovations to Market in a Connected World, by Bhaskar Chakravort. (http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/157851780X/innovationtoo-20)
9. The Seeds of Innovation: Cultivating the Synergy That Fosters New Ideas, by Elaine Dundon. (http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0814471463/innovationtoo-20)
10. Experimentation Matters: Unlocking the Potential of New Technologies for Innovation, by Stefan H. Thomke. (http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/1578517508/innovationtoo-20)
Source: http://www.innovationtools.com/ (sidebar)