HOT READS FOR THE PRACTITIONER
Title: HBR Insight Center of Innovation and Creativity
Competencies:Â innovation, creativity
Who benefits: those responsible for and those who would like to develop in the areas of innovation and creativity
Consultant Usage: resource center
What’s it about? Harvard Business Review has developed a nice online resource center. If innovation and creativity is your thing, here is what you will find at the link:
Videos (2)
Disruptive Innovation Explained
Create an App Club
Audio (1)
Restoring America’s Innovation Economy – with one of my all-time favorite authors, Rosabeth Moss Kanter
New Articles (7) including my favorites:
What Doesn’t Motivate Creativity Can Kill It
How Introverts Can Become Better Innovators
The Four Worst Innovation Assassins
Further Reading (6) including my favorite:
The Anti-Creativity Checklist
HBR Classics (5) including my favorites:
Innovation: The Classic Traps

Strategies for Learning from Failure
Innovation’s Seven Deadly Sins: Avoiding the Most Common Pitfalls of Innovation
HBR also advertises several books on innovation and creativity. All-in-all it is quite a treasure trove and certainly worthy of a visit if you are interested in the topic.
Catch you later.
Bill Bradley
Bill Bradley (mostly) retired after 35 years in organizational consulting, training and management development. During those years he worked internally with seven organizations and trained and consulted externally with more than 90 large and small businesses, government agencies, hospitals and schools.
