QuickTalks: Josh Linkner: Facilitate Creativity Using Role Streaming


Role storming is brain storming in character. Assign people roles. This is fun and removes the fear. People playing Darth Vader or the Queen of England are then free to express their creativity. For example, Steve Jobs would never come up with a small idea. LAUNCH

If We Can Put a Man on the Moon...Getting Big Things Done in Government

At a time of unprecedented challenges, this book, with its abundant examples and hands-on advice, unearths the hidden pitfalls that plague public projects, as well as examines the success factors of great achievements. LAUNCH

Surrounded by Geniuses: Unlocking the Brilliance in Yourself, Your Colleagues and Your Organization

There is genius hidden in all of us. This book clearly shows how to unlock the genius in ourselves and our organizations by discovering and applying insight from the worlds of business, history, popular culture, nature, science and even science fiction. LAUNCH

Innovator's Toolkit: 10 Practical Strategies to Help You Develop and Implement Innovation

Providing jargon-free, useable, practical tools and advice, this handy guide offers you field-tested techniques and tips to ensure the successful development and implementation of your innovation. LAUNCH

Innovation: Myths and Mythstakes (Mistakes)

Helping you acquire valuable insights into your consumer, this valuable book will enable you understand the roadblocks and challenges of innovation, and how to avoid them while keeping your innovation efforts, and your business or career on track. LAUNCH

Innovation to the Core: A Blueprint For Transforming the Way Your Company Innovates

Drawing on a wealth of stories and examples while including numerous frameworks, checklists, and probing questions, this book shows how companies of every stripe have overcome the barriers to successful, profitable innovation. LAUNCH

Innovation Power Plays: How the World’s Hottest Change Agents Reach the Top of Their Game

Offering an exploration of the way energetic managers drive innovation in their organizations, this book features strategies for reenergizing routines, customer service, business planning, and more from the world's top business champions. LAUNCH

The Other Side of Innovation: Solving The Execution Challenge

Drawing on examples from innovators as diverse as Allstate, BMW, Timberland, and Nucor, this practical and provocative book reveals how to execute an innovation initiative—whether a simple project or a grand, gutsy gamble. LAUNCH

Innovation is Everybody's Business: How to Make Yourself Indispensable in Today's Hypercompetitive World

If you're ready to stop talking about innovation and start adding value today–in your job, department, or organization, this book reveals why honing your I-Skills (Innovation Skills) may be the smartest career move you'll make. LAUNCH

Innovation for Underdogs: How to Make the Leap From What If to Now What

Using entertaining, energetic, and enlightening stories from the author's experience, this witty book shows creative readers how to clearly define and solve a problem and how to market the solution. LAUNCH

Innovating In A Global Crisis: Riding The Whirlwind Of Recession

Drawing on the renowned THT cross-cultural database, as well as hilarious illustrations of innovation from hit comedy shows such as Fawlty Towers, this practical book is a blueprint for creating a culture of high-octane creativity and innovation. LAUNCH

Grabbing Lightning: Building a Capability for Breakthrough Innovation

Discussing how the management system for innovation is different from the traditional one, this book outlines the three building blocks of breakthrough innovation (BI) and shows what it takes to become an organization that values the BI management system. LAUNCH

Glow: How You Can Radiate Energy; Innovation; and Success

Illustrated with dozens of examples and personal stories, this inspiring book explores how pockets of energy and innovation are created in organizations and zeroes in on how you can become a source of energy and innovation yourself. LAUNCH

Edison on Innovation: 102 Lessons in Creativity for Business and Beyond

A fascinating exploration of one of the most celebrated and innovative minds, this book demonstrates that creativity of the very highest order can indeed be summoned up at will, and even reduced to a reliable working method and set of principles. LAUNCH

Creativity Unlimited: Thinking Inside The Box For Business Innovation

With real business examples, numerous exercises, eye-openers, models and concepts, this book suggests that we do not need to 'think outside the box' in our quest for creativity, rather we should rethink the way we look 'inside the box'. LAUNCH

Conquering Innovation Fatigue: Overcoming the Barriers to Personal and Corporate Success

Taking a unique personal look at the challenges innovators face in their journey, this book shows how innovation can be energized to conquer fatigue and help innovators reach success. LAUNCH

The Idea Hunter: How to Find the Best Ideas and Make them Happen

Presenting an eclectic band of idea hunters, ranging from Thomas Edison, Mary Kay Ash, and Walt Disney, to Warren Buffett and Apple's Phil Schiller, this myth-busting book unveils a strategy for unearthing new ideas in any industry or organization. LAUNCH

Mining Group Gold: How to Cash in on the Collaborative Brainpower of a Team for Innovation and Results, Third Edition

Based on practical advice rather than fluff or theory, this classical book is the essential guide to building and maintaining strong, collaborative organizational teams. LAUNCH

The Innovation Playbook: A Revolution in Business Excellence

A complete roadmap to a revolution in business excellence founded on innovation, this book shares the 56 ways in which innovations fail and includes an abundance of anecdotes and examples of successful and unsuccessful innovation. LAUNCH

Innovative Intelligence: The Art and Practice of Leading Sustainable Innovation in Your Organization

With a clear roadmap and practical tools, this book will help readers to make their cultures more supportive of innovation, identify and tap into the innovative intelligence in their workplace and develop leaders who can close the innovation gap for greater business success. LAUNCH