Business Innovation & Creativity

Discover the MIT-developed, "doer's approach" to innovation with this guide that reveals you don't need an earth-shattering idea to create a standout product, service, or business—just a hunch that you can scale up to impact. Innovation is the subject of countless books and courses, but there's very little out there about how you actually innovate. Innovation and entrepreneurship are not...

Stanford professors reveal how leaders can dramatically boost the creative output of their organisations. Essential reading for all leaders and managers seeking to drive innovation, and readers of bestselling books such as Creativity Inc, Sprint, Designing Your Life, and Creative Confidence. 'A game-changer' | 'A must-read' | 'Simple yet powerful' The single best way to have a great idea is...

The definitive playbook by the pioneers of Growth Hacking, one of the hottest business methodologies in Silicon Valley and beyond, that drove the rapid growth of start-ups like Uber, Facebook, Airbnb, Dropbox, Yelp, LinkedIn, Pinterest, and more. 'a compelling methodology... to increase market share quickly' -- Eric Ries, bestselling author of The Lean Startup 'a must-read for anyone in business'...

How organisations can use practices developed by expert designers to solve today's open, complex, dynamic, and networked problems. When organisations apply old methods of problem-solving to new kinds of problems, they may accomplish only temporary fixes or some ineffectual tinkering around the edges. Today's problems are a new breed—open, complex, dynamic, and networked—and require a radically different response. In this...

The ultimate guide to revolutionise the way your company works - forever. The way we work is broken. It takes forever to get anything done. Meetings and emails are incessant. Bureaucracy stifles talent and creativity. After decades of management theory and multiple waves of technological and societal change, is this really the best we can do? Aaron Dignan teaches companies...

From the Wall Street Journal’s Tripp Mickle, the dramatic, untold story inside Apple after the passing of Steve Jobs by following his top lieutenants—Jony Ive, the Chief Design Officer, and Tim Cook, the COO-turned-CEO—and how the fading of the former and the rise of the latter led to Apple losing its soul. Steve Jobs called Jony Ive his “spiritual partner...

Building on the remarkable story of Netflix, No Rules Rules by Reed Hastings, Netflix’s co-founder and CEO, and Erin Meyer, a professor at INSEAD business school, offers an unprecedented look at the core principles that have shaped one of the most dynamic and disruptive companies in the world. Discover the radical cultural experiment behind Netflix's transformation from a DVD mail...

An adrenaline-fuelled exposé of the inner workings of Silicon Valley, Chaos Monkeys by Antonio Garcia Martinez offers an unfiltered glimpse into the lives of the visionaries, grunts, sociopaths, opportunists, and money cowboys who are revolutionising our world. This New York Times bestseller is often described as Liar's Poker meets The Social Network, blending personal memoir with sharp industry critique in...