I often get asked about what books I recommend for learning about innovation, especially for someone just getting started. The following books will provide you with plenty of help, as they have done for me.

• Build an A-Team: Play to Their Strengths and Lead Them Up the Learning Curve, by Whitney Johnson
• Business Model Generation: A Handbook for Visionaries, Games Changers, and Challengers, by Alex Osterwalder and Yves Pigneur
• The Creative Habit: Learn It and Use It for Life (Learn In and Use It for Life), by Twyla Tharp
• HBR’s 10 Must Reads on Innovation (with featured article “The Discipline of Innovation,” by Peter F. Drucker), Harvard Business Review
• The Inevitable: Understanding the 12 Technological Forces That Will Shape Our Future, by Kevin Kelly
• Innovation Accounting: A Practical Guide For Measuring Your Innovation Ecosystem’s Performance, by Dan Toma and Esther Gons
• Innovating: A Doer’s Manifesto for Starting from a Hunch, Prototyping Problems, Scaling Up, and Learning to Be Productively Wrong, by Luis Perez-Breva
• Pirates in the Navy: How Innovators Lead Transformation, by Tendayi Viki
• Seeing Around Corners: How to Spot Inflection Points in Business Before They Happen, by Rita McGrath
• The Simple Guide to Legal Innovation: Basics Every Lawyer Should Know, by Lucy Bassli
• Successful Innovation Outcomes in Law: A Practical Guide for Law Firms, Law Departments and Other Legal Organizations, by Dennis Kennedy
• The Ten Faces of Innovation: IDEO’s Strategies for Beating the Devil’s Advocate and Driving Creativity Throughout Your Organization, by Tom Kelley
• Ten Types of Innovation: The Discipline of Building Breakthroughs, by Larry Keeley
• Testing Business Ideas: A Field Guide for Rapid Experimentation, by David Bland and Alex Osterwalder
• This Is Service Design Doing: Applying Service Design Thinking in the Real World, by Marc Stickdorn, et al
• Value Proposition Design: How to Create Products and Services Customers Want, by Alex Osterwalder and Yves Pigneur

[Originally posted on DennisKennedy.Blog (https://www.denniskennedy.com/blog/)]

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