Suggested readings

Books

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• Conceptual Blockbusting: A Guide to Better Ideas, by James L. Adams
• The World's Greatest Ideas: An Encyclopedia of Social Inventions , Nicholas Albery, ed.
• Harvard Business Review on Breakthrough Thinking, by Teresa Amabile, Dorothy Leonard, and Jeffrey F. Rayport
• Lateral Thinking: Creativity Step by Step, by Edward de Bono
• The 5-Day Course in Thinking, by Edward de Bono
• Creativity: Flow and the Psychology of Discovery and Invention , by Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
• 536 Puzzles and Curious Problems, by Henry Dudeney
• Leading the Revolution, by Gary Hamel
• The Art of Innovation: Lessons in Creativity from Ideo, America's Leading Design Firm, by Tom Kelley and Jonathan Littman
• Thinkertoys (A Handbook of Business Creativity), by Michael Michalko
• The New Financial Order: Risk in the 21^st Century , by Robert Shiller
• Weird Ideas that Work: 11 ½ Practices for Promoting, Managing, and Sustaining Innovation, by Robert Sutton
• Creativity: Beyond the Myth of Genius, by Robert W. Weisberg
• The Art and Craft of Problem Solving, by Paul Zeitz

Out of print

• The Nature of Creative Development, by Jonathan S. Feinstein
• The Scientist Speculates: An Anthology of Partly-Baked Ideas, ed. I. J. Good

Journal articles

• Michael Cohen, James March, and Johan Olsen, "A Garbage Can Model of Organizational Choice," Administrative Science Quarterly 17, no. 1 (March 1972): 1-25., by Michael Cohen, James March, and Johan Olsen
• Carrie Menel-Meadow, "Aha? Is Creativity Possible in Legal Problem Solving and Teachable in Legal Education," Harvard Negotiation Law Review 6 (Spring 2001): 97