Ideas that Transform

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there is nothing is more powerful than an idea whose time has come

Exploring thinking differently, imagination at work, outside-in thinking, setting up a culture of innovation, creative ideas and designs that transform, applying curiosity and how ideas incubate and spread.

Dianne Jacobs | The Talent Advisors | Reading Circle | Series 2 | Exploring thinking differently, imagination at work, outside-in thinking, setting up a culture of innovation, creative ideas and designs that transform, applying curiosity and how ideas incubate and spread.

Here is more information about the Series 2 selection of books and discussions.

Loonshots: How to Nurture the Crazy Ideas That Win Wars, Cure Diseases, and Transform Industries (March 2019, St Martin’s Press) by Safi Bahcall

The Imagination Machine: How to Spark New Ideas and Create Your Company's Future (June 2021, Harvard Business Review Press) by Martin Reeves and Jack Fuller from BCG

Think Outside the Building: How Advanced Leaders Can Change the World One Smart Innovation at a Time (January 2021, Public Affairs) by renowned innovation expert Rosabeth Moss Kanter who co-founded and then directed Harvard's Advanced Leadership Initiative.

Creative Acts For Curious People: How to Think, Create, and Lead in Unconventional Ways (January 2022, Penguin) by Sarah Stein Greenberg, Executive Director of the Stanford d.school.

Fast Company Innovation by Design: Creative Ideas that Transform the Way We Live and Work (November 2021, Stephanie Mehta and Debbie Millman.

The Quiet Before: On the unexpected origins of radical ideas from Renaissance France to Black Lives Matter (February 2022, Crown) by Gal Beckerman.

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