Innovator’s Bookshelf

Creative People Must Be Stopped! offers a general framework for thinking about innovation (and what constrains it).  Each chapter of the book examines one of the six dominant perspectives that most writers on innovation will adopt.  The following table from the book will help you to gather additional information about each of these specific constraint types.

Constraint Type	Book Title (Amazon Page Link)	Authors
Individual Innovation Constraints (Chapter 2)	Steve Jobs	Isaacson, Walter
	The Visual Display of Quantitative Information	Tufte, Edward
	Conceptual Blockbusting: A Guide to Better Ideas	Adams, James L.
	The Design of Everyday Things	Norman, Donald
	Flow: The Psychology of Optimal Experience	Csikszentmihalyi, Mihaly
	Frames of Mind: The Theory of Multiple Intelligences	Gardner, Howard E.
Group Innovation Constraints (Chapter 3)	Weird Ideas That Work: How to Build a Creative Company	Sutton, Robert I.
	The Art of Innovation: Lessons in Creativity from IDEO, America’s Leading Design Firm	Kelley, Tom
	Good Boss, Bad Boss: How to Be the Best… and Learn from the Worst	Sutton, Robert I.
	The Social Life of Information	Brown, John Seely & P. Duguid
	The Deep Dive at IDEO	Nightline Video (ABC News)
Organizational Innovation Constraints (Chapter 4)	Serious Play: How the World’s Best Companies Simulate to Innovate	Schrage, Michael
	The Design of Business: Why Design Thinking is the Next Competitive Advantage	Martin, Roger
	The Soul of A New Machine	Kidder, Tracy
	Fumbling the Future: How Xerox Invented, then Ignored, the First Personal Computer	Smith, Douglas K. & R. Alexander
	Organizing Genius: The Secrets of Creative Collaboration	Bennis, Warren, & W. Biederman
	The Fifth Discipline: The Art & Practice of The Learning Organization	Senge, Peter M.
Industry Innovation Constraints (Chapter 5)	The Innovator’s Dilemma: The Revolutionary Book That Will Change the Way You Do Business	Christensen, Clayton M.
	The Structure of Scientific Revolutions	Kuhn, Thomas S.
	Managing The Professional Service Firm	Maister, David
	Crossing the Chasm	Moore, Geoffrey
	Appetite for Self-Destruction: The Spectacular Crash of the Record Industry in the Digital Age	Knopper, Steve
	Competitive Strategy: Techniques for Analyzing Industries and Competitors	Porter, Michael E.
Societal Innovation Constraints (Chapter 6)	Made to Stick: Why Some Ideas Survive and Others Die	Chip & Dan Heath
	The System of Professions: An Essay on the Division of Expert Labor	Abbott, Andrew
	How to Change the World: Social Entrepreneurs and the Power of New Ideas, Updated Edition	Bornstein, David
	The Art of the Long View: Planning for the Future in an Uncertain World	Schwartz, Peter
	Cradle to Cradle: Remaking the Way We Make Things	McDonough and Braungart
	Diffusion of Innovations, 5th Edition	Rogers, Everett
Technological Innovation Constraints (Chapter 7)	Innovation Tournaments: Creating and Selecting Exceptional Opportunities	Terwiesch, C. & K. Ulrich
	Strategic Management of Technology and Innovation	Burgelman, Christensen, & Wheelwright
	How Breakthroughs Happen: The Surprising Truth About How Companies Innovate	Hargadon, Andrew
	Open Innovation: The New Imperative for Creating And Profiting from Technology	Chesbrough, Henry W.
	Biomimicry: Innovation Inspired by Nature	Benyus, Janine M.