I always get a little nervous when a book’s title includes words in boldface, all capital letters, or underlined multiple times. It seems like someone is yelling across a room to get my attention, hoping to convince me of something by sheer volume and decibels rather than by reasoning and content. So it was with […]

In A Whole New Mind author Daniel Pink first outlines a bit of human history. He describes the Industrial Age, in which assembly line workers were the key, and the transition to the Information Age, when knowledge workers reigned supreme. Now he sees us moving into the Conceptual Age, where Creatives will be the main […]

What do elephants and epidemics have to do with creativity? Well, according to Frans Johansson, they can spark some interesting thinking. In The Medici Effect: What Elephants and Epidemics Can Teach Us About Innovation, Johansson explores the nature of creativity and innovation and suggests methods to get us into a position to pursue them. By […]

I first read Jeanne Meister’s and Karie Willyerd’s The 2020 Workplace back in 2010, and I found it to be a very useful and engaging book that added a lot to a course I was teaching at the time. A student had recommended it as a good discussion of generational diversity, but as I went […]