Discover how to break free from the restrictive "giant hairball" of traditional business practices that lead to mediocrity. With anecdotes and lessons from his 30-year career inspiring creativity at Hallmark Cards, Gordon MacKenzie shares how to awaken and foster your own creative genius. This entertaining and empowering book is a must-read for managers and professionals seeking new ways to invigorate employees and achieve fulfilling work.

A Corporate Fool's Guide to Surviving with Grace

Orbiting the Giant Hairball

"The Innovator's Solution" by Clayton M. Christensen and Michael Raynor is a groundbreaking book about how companies can move beyond the Innovator's Dilemma and become disruptors themselves. With updated examples and new chapters, this revised edition is more relevant than ever for today's rapidly changing business landscape. Discover the crucial business decisions necessary for achieving disruptive growth and develop your own growth engine with the advice of these respected authors. An important addition to any innovation library and a must-read for entrepreneurs and business builders.

Creating and Sustaining Successful Growth

The Innovator's Solution

This book focuses on the importance of generosity in the creative process, and how sharing your work can lead to success. It offers ten rules for being open, brave, and productive, with chapters such as "Share Something Small Every Day." You'll learn about the "ecology of talent" and how to embrace the communal nature of creativity. With inspiring stories and practical advice for the digital age, this book is a must-read for any artist or entrepreneur.

Show Your Work!

Unlock your creative potential with this powerful and inspiring book. First published 25 years ago, this international bestseller is more important than ever in today's cultural climate. In The Artist's Way, Julia Cameron takes readers on a 12-week journey to discover the link between their spiritual and creative selves. This groundbreaking program includes hundreds of highly effective exercises and activities, as well as introductions to two vital tools for creative recovery. Join a "Creative Cluster" of fellow artists and unleash your artistic renewal with this life-changing book.

25th Anniversary Edition

The Artist's Way

"Making Ideas Happen" by Scott Belsky teaches readers how to turn their creative ideas into reality. Founder and CEO of Behance, Belsky shares the principles and techniques of highly productive individuals and teams. Organizational habits and the support of colleagues are essential in developing the skill of execution. Belsky emphasizes the importance of making ideas happen instead of just generating them.

Overcoming the Obstacles Between Vision and Reality

Making Ideas Happen

Learn the secrets to building a thriving creative culture in business with this insightful book by Ed Catmull, co-founder of Pixar Animation Studios. Creativity, Inc. takes readers on a behind-the-scenes tour of the meetings, postmortems, and "Braintrust" sessions that have led to some of the most successful films in history. Through a series of philosophies that prioritize protecting the creative process and defying convention, Catmull reveals the ideals and techniques that have made Pixar both widely admired and wildly profitable. Managers looking to lead their team to new heights and anyone striving for originality will find this book an invaluable resource.

Overcoming the Unseen Forces That Stand in the Way of True Inspiration

Creativity, Inc.

Unleash your creativity with this powerful and compelling book written by two of the leading experts in innovation, design, and creativity on the planet. David and Tom Kelley identify the principles and strategies that will allow us to tap into our creative potential in our work and personal lives. Drawing on countless stories from their work at IDEO, the Stanford d.school, and with many of the world's top companies, this book will help you be more productive and successful.

Unleashing the Creative Potential Within Us All

Creative Confidence

Learn how even the most successful companies can lose market leadership in the face of disruptive innovation. Renowned author Clayton M. Christensen offers a set of rules for capitalizing on these new waves of innovation, using both successes and failures from leading companies as a guide. This classic bestseller, cited by the likes of Steve Jobs and Malcolm Gladwell, is a must-read for any manager, leader, or entrepreneur.

When New Technologies Cause Great Firms to Fail

The Innovator's Dilemma

Learn how design thinking belongs in every level of business with Change by Design. Discover the collaborative process where designers match people's needs with what is technically feasible and viable to the bottom line. With new case studies included in the updated edition, this human-centered approach helps organizations become more innovative and creative. Creative leaders seeking to drive new alternatives for business and society will benefit from this visionary guide.

How Design Thinking Transforms Organizations and Inspires Innovation

Change by Design

Unleash your creativity with a guide to overcome the greatest enemy: resistance. Discover unique and helpful ways to express yourself with the support of bestselling author Steven Pressfield.

The War of Art

This thought-provoking book argues that product design that ignores the needs of users and principles of cognitive psychology can make even the smartest people feel inept. The author, a cognitive scientist, explains how good design can guide users effortlessly to the right action at the right time by making things visible, exploiting natural relationships, and using intelligent constraints. With an updated introduction, The Design of Everyday Things is a powerful primer on how excellent design can be the key to influencing consumer behavior.

Revised and Expanded Edition

The Design of Everyday Things

"Universal Principles of Design" is the ultimate cross-disciplinary reference for designers seeking to expand and improve their expertise. With clear explanations and visual examples, this book explores 100 design concepts applied in practice, ranging from the 80/20 rule to storytelling. From marketing campaigns to museum exhibits, this revised and updated edition is the go-to guide for designers, engineers, architects, and students looking to master the principles of design.

Curiosity List: Innovation and Creativity