Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking967 reviews Back Bay Books, 2007 blink...and then it's gone There's not much substance to this book. Rather than being a resource of information, it is merely a book of examples. There is no broad takeaway you can gather from it after reading except to say perhaps that many of our decisions are based on split-second thoughts. But did you really need to read ...             The Elegant Solution: Toyota's Formula for Mastering Innovation20 reviews The Free Press, 2006 My new Bible + Can Be Used for Personal Development + A good read + A tactical field guide for everyone looking out for elegant solutions to their life pursuits, as innovation is everybody's job!             Democratizing Innovation10 reviews The MIT Press, 2005 Great ideas on innovation + Put your users to work! + the future of mass collaboration + User-innovations: a world without specialization and trade? + DemocratizingInnovation             Inevitable Surprises14 reviews Gotham, 2004 Packed with Knowledge! + "Perhaps the string that is easiest to pull first...." + Nowhere does Schwartz say that the US is a rogue superpower + good ideas about the future + The future in parallel permutations             The Innovator's Solution: Creating and Sustaining Successful Growth50 reviews Harvard Business School Press, 2003 the real thing + Iwant answers, not problems? + Disruptive Innovations Key to Spicing Up Competition + Motivation assymetries + The Purpose of Your Product             The Wisdom of Crowds161 reviews Anchor, 2005 great stuff! + UNique thinking for these turbulent times + Why don't quantum physicists let a crowd predict the Higgs' particle mass-energy? I read this for a MBA class. Out of the stack of books assigned, so far, this is the only one I liked. It is relevant to today's curious questions of how to get crowds engaged, how crowds behave, and why we even care. I'm trying to teach people to work collaboratively together at work. They ...             Dealing with Darwin: How Great Companies Innovate at Every Phase of Their Evolution17 reviews Portfolio, 2007 A cogent survival guide for the evolution of business + A must read for technology companies + Exceeded My Expectations In a competitive, capitalist economy, nothing is more prized than the whiz-bang invention, the why-didn't-I-think-of-that product or service that defines a market, delights consumers and gushes profits. Yet for all the ink spilled over innovation, remarkably few businesspeople understand exactly ...             The Cathedral & the Bazaar: Musings on Linux and Open Source by an Accidental Revolutionary50 reviews O'Reilly Media, 2001 Simply a Great Book + brilliant but kind of sloppy + A Collection of Essays on Open Source + gives a "blow by blow" about how "open source decentralized software development" CAN work, with a caveat             Competing on Analytics: The New Science of Winning58 reviews Harvard Business School Press, 2007 Five stars but... for the right audience! + "Going by the Gut" may be going by the wayside I was excited by the title, some of the reviews and rushed to buy this. Read it quite fast and got little disappointed. Probably the correct title could be ''Advocacy for Competing on Analytics''. To be clear, the book is very good if you are: a student, a junior project manager, a junior ...             Democratizing Innovation10 reviews The MIT Press, 2005 Great ideas on innovation + Put your users to work! + the future of mass collaboration + User-innovations: a world without specialization and trade? + DemocratizingInnovation             Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking967 reviews Back Bay Books, 2007 blink...and then it's gone There's not much substance to this book. Rather than being a resource of information, it is merely a book of examples. There is no broad takeaway you can gather from it after reading except to say perhaps that many of our decisions are based on split-second thoughts. But did you really need to read ...             The Innovator's Solution: Creating and Sustaining Successful Growth50 reviews Harvard Business School Press, 2003 the real thing + Iwant answers, not problems? + Disruptive Innovations Key to Spicing Up Competition + Motivation assymetries + The Purpose of Your Product             The Elegant Solution: Toyota's Formula for Mastering Innovation20 reviews The Free Press, 2006 My new Bible + Can Be Used for Personal Development + A good read + A tactical field guide for everyone looking out for elegant solutions to their life pursuits, as innovation is everybody's job!             The Wisdom of Crowds161 reviews Anchor, 2005 great stuff! + UNique thinking for these turbulent times + Why don't quantum physicists let a crowd predict the Higgs' particle mass-energy? I read this for a MBA class. Out of the stack of books assigned, so far, this is the only one I liked. It is relevant to today's curious questions of how to get crowds engaged, how crowds behave, and why we even care. I'm trying to teach people to work collaboratively together at work. They ...             Dealing with Darwin: How Great Companies Innovate at Every Phase of Their Evolution17 reviews Portfolio, 2007 A cogent survival guide for the evolution of business + A must read for technology companies + Exceeded My Expectations In a competitive, capitalist economy, nothing is more prized than the whiz-bang invention, the why-didn't-I-think-of-that product or service that defines a market, delights consumers and gushes profits. Yet for all the ink spilled over innovation, remarkably few businesspeople understand exactly ...             Competing on Analytics: The New Science of Winning58 reviews Harvard Business School Press, 2007 Five stars but... for the right audience! + "Going by the Gut" may be going by the wayside I was excited by the title, some of the reviews and rushed to buy this. Read it quite fast and got little disappointed. Probably the correct title could be ''Advocacy for Competing on Analytics''. To be clear, the book is very good if you are: a student, a junior project manager, a junior ...             Inevitable Surprises14 reviews Gotham, 2004 Packed with Knowledge! + "Perhaps the string that is easiest to pull first...." + Nowhere does Schwartz say that the US is a rogue superpower + good ideas about the future + The future in parallel permutations             The Cathedral & the Bazaar: Musings on Linux and Open Source by an Accidental Revolutionary50 reviews O'Reilly Media, 2001 Simply a Great Book + brilliant but kind of sloppy + A Collection of Essays on Open Source + gives a "blow by blow" about how "open source decentralized software development" CAN work, with a caveat