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Title: Harvard Business Review on Breakthrough Thinking by Teresa Amabile, Dorothy Leonard, Elleen Morley, Andrew Silver, Wetlaufer Suzy, Peter Drucker, Jeffrey F. Rayport ISBN: 1-57851-181-X Publisher: Harvard Business School Press Pub. Date: October, 1999 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $19.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 4 (3 reviews)
Rating: 4
Summary: An assortment of articles
Comment: This collection of HBR articles on creativity, organization and 'out-of-the-box' stuff is packaged as the HBR on Breakthrough Thinking. Hence, if you are in an exploratory mood to read up various viewpoints of organizational creativity then do pick up this book. But if, you are working in an organization, and what to know what to do to take it through the whole end-to-end innovation journey then this book is only an appetizer. You'll have to catch someone else to serve you the meal.
The book has articles like:
How to kill creativity: The list of no-nos to avoid getting stuck in a rut.
Putting your company's whole brain to work: Looking at the MBTI (Myers Briggs Type Indicator) of people working together.
An interesting article is "A film director's approach to managing creativity" which could have been very powerfully used. It ends up drawing lame parallels between a movie production and organizational projects and what the corporate world can learn from it.
The masterpiece is as usual, The Discipline of Innovation, by Peter Drucker, as he gives insights as to why some firms can innovate. He classifies them as firms that do process innovations, or capitalising on industry or market changes. OUtside, due to demographic , perception and knowledge changes.
Rating: 4
Summary: Lots of Good Bits
Comment: I have been looking for a book to help me rethink the way I work and this one was recommended by a friend. I bought it and enjoyed especially several of the essays- the one on how movie makers work and think was really good.
Overall this is full of good examples of existing practice. But you need to work with the case studies to see how they might apply.
Rating: 4
Summary: review for HBR on Breakthrough Thinking
Comment: Before reading this book, I thought I was very good at analyzing issues. After reading this book, I realized that some of my analysis should be different. This book is definitely worth it's value. The articles were interesting and enlightening.
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