Recommended Readings
from the CereCore® Institute team
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Creative Problem Solving and Innovative Approaches
Fobes, Richard, Creative Problem Solver's Toolbook: A Complete
Course in the Art of Creative Solutions to Problems of Any Kind.
Higgins, James M., 101 Creative Problem Solving Techniques:
The Handbook of New Ideas for Business.
Nadler, Gerald et al, Breakthrough Thinking: The Seven Principles
of Creative Problem Solving.
Nadler, Gerald, Shozo Hibino and John Farrell, Creative Solution
Finding:
The Triumph of Breakthrough Thinking over Conventional Problem Solving.
Michalko, Michael, Thinkertoy: A Handbook of Business Creativity.
Hindle, Tim The Essential Manager Series: Managing Your Time. Management topics presented visually
so you can read what interests you without having to read a long chapter
to get to your specific interest area.
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Leadership and Creative Business Solutions
Belasco, James et al, Flight of the Buffalo. An excellent look at both
real world examples and theory.
Bennis, Warren, Managing People is Like Herding Cats. Explores the qualities
and behaviors demonstrated by leaders.
Davis, Stanley M. and Christopher Meyer, Blur: The Speed of Change
in the Connected Economy. Explores what innovators will need in the connected
economy to thrive and who are the hottest leaders.
Glacel, Barbara Pate et al. Light Bulbs for Leaders. A good book about
team development based on the team formation of forming, norming, storming
and performing.
Greenleaf, Robert K, Servant Leadership: A Journey in the
Nature of Legitimate Power and Greatness. An interesting read that gives you something to
think about in your everyday world of working.
Helgesen, Sally, The Female Advantage: Women’s
Ways of Leadership.
Women leaders’ approaches to working and communicating in non-traditional
ways.
Hendricks, Gay and Kate Ludeman, The Corporate Mystic: A Guidebook for
Visionaries with Their Feet on the Ground.
Lencioni, Patrick, The Five Dysfunctions of a Team: A Leadership Fable.
Loehr, Jim and Tony Schwartz, The Power of Full Engagement. Addresses
how high performance is a result of managing energy not time.
Maynard, Herman Bryant, Jr. and Susan E. Mehrtens, The Fourth Wave: Business
in the 21st Century. Examines a future in which business principles,
concern for the environment, personal integrity and spiritual values
are integrated.
Pottruck, David S. and Terry Pearce, Clicks and Mortar. This is the story
of how Charles Schwab Company developed over the last ten years. It is
a blueprint for “how to do it right” with many examples of
how Schwab did many things right with some poignant examples of failures
from which they learned.
Swartz, James B, The Hunters and the Hunted: A Non-Linear Solution for
Reengineering the Workplace.
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