What Else?

We will be gathering various resources (books, videos, research, etc.) to share with the community, and they will be posted here. If you have resources you would like to share, please email peg.faimon@miamioh.edu and we will add them to the list. Please visit often to find inspiration.

Books on Creativity & Innovation

A Whole New Mind, Daniel Pink

Big Magic: Creative Living Beyond Fear, Elizabeth Gilbert

Drive: The Surprising Truth about What Motivates Us, Daniel Pink

Cracking Creativity (and Thinkertoys), Michael Michalko

Creative Confidence: Unleashing the Creative Potential Within Us All, Tom Kelley

Creative Intelligence: Harnessing the Power to Create, Connect and Inspire, Bruce Nussbaum

Creativity: Flow and the Psychology of Discovery and Invention, Mihaly Czikszentmihalyi

Creativity, Inc.: Overcoming the Unseen Forces that Stand in the Way of True Inspiration, Ed Catmull and Amy Wallace

How We Got to Now, Steven Johnson

inGenius: A Crash Course on Creativity, Tina Seelig

Innovation & Entrepreneurship, Peter Drucker

It’s Not How Good You Are, It’s How Good You Want To Be, Paul Arden

Out of Our Minds: Learning to be Creative, Ken Robinson

Play: How it Shapes the Brain, Opens the Imagination, and Invigorates the Soul, Stuart Brown

Start With Why,  Simon Sinek

The Art of Innovation: Lessons in Creativity from Ideo, America’s Leading Design Firm, Tom Kelley

The Innovators, Walter Isaacson

The Innovator’s DNA: Mastering the Five Skills of Disruptive Innovators, Jeff Dyer and Hall Gregersen

The Innovator’s Dilemma: When New Technologies Cause Great Firms to Fail, Clayton Christensen

The Innovator’s Solution: Creating and Sustaining Successful Growth, Clayton Christensen

The Myths of Innovation, Scott Berkun

The Organized Mind: Thinking Straight in the Ages of Information Overload, Daniel Levitin

The Opposable Mind (Or Design of Business: Why Design Thinking is the Next Competitive Advantage), Roger Martin

The Sources of Innovation, Eric von Hippel

Thinking, Fast and Slow, Daniel Kahneman

Yes, And: How Improvisation Reverses "No, But" Thinking and Improves Creativity and Collaboration - Lessons from Second City, Kelly Leonard and Tom Yorton

Online Resources

New York Times Magazine Innovation Issue

Flourishing -A New Understanding of Wellbeing, 2012 Happiness and Its Causes, Martin Seligman, Founder and Director, Centre for Positive Psychology, University of Pennsylvania