Books on Innovation From Thought Leaders & Entrepreneurs
How do you decide what to read for the best advice? Inside Outside helps innovators and entrepreneurs navigate hundreds of new innovation books to find the right advice at the right time.
The following 20+ innovation books have been recently published (or are still in the works) by Inside Outside Innovation podcast guests (both past and future), Inside Outside Innovation Summit 2019 speakers, and a few of our favorite bestsellers.
If you like this list, check out our Top 33+ Innovation Books to Read in 2019
Top Books on Innovation for 2020
- Testing Business Ideas – David Bland & Alexander Osterwalder (This one is a MUST!)
- Rebel Talent: Why It Pays to Break All the Rules in Work and in Life – Francesca Gino
- The Fearless Organization: Creating Psychological Safety in the Workplace for Learning, Innovation, and Growth – Amy Edmondson
- Outcomes Over Outputs, Sense and Respond, and Lean UX – Josh Seiden
- Future Proof: Reinventing Work in the Age of Acceleration – Diana Wu David
- Lean vs Agile vs Design Thinking, Lean UX, & Sense & Respond – Jeff Gothelf
- The Government Fix – Sara Hudson & Hana Schank
- Hire Women: An Agile Framework for Hiring and Retaining Women in Technology – Debbie Madden
- Leader Board: The DNA of High-Performance Teams – Omar Luqmann-Harris
- The Humachine: Humankind, Machines, and the Future of Enterprise – Nada Sanders & John Wood
- Unlocking the Customer Value Chain: How Decoupling Drives Consumer Disruption – Thales Teixeira
- The Critical Few: Energize Your Company’s Culture by Choosing What Really Matters – Jon Katzenbach & Gretchen Anderson
- Seeing Around Corners: How to Spot Inflection Points in Business Before They Happen & The End of Competitive Advantage – Rita Gunther McGrath
- Innovator’s DNA, Innovator’s Method, and Innovation Capital. – Jeff Dyer & Co-authors
- Collaborative Advantage: How collaboration beats competition as a strategy for success – Paul Skinner
10 More Great Innovation Books
- High Velocity Innovation: How to Get Your Best Ideas to Market Faster, The Mastery of Innovation: A Field Guide to Lean Product Development, and The Shortest Distance Between You and Your New Product: How Innovators Use Rapid Learning Cycles to Get Their Best Ideas to Market Faster – Katherine Radeka
- Ninja Future: Secrets to Success in the New World of Innovation – Gary Shapiro
- How to Be An Inclusive Leader: Your Role in Creating Cultures of Belonging Where Everyone Can Thrive – Jennifer Brown
- Never Go With Your Gut: How Pioneering Leaders Make the Best Decisions and Avoid Business Disasters – Gleb Tsipursky
- Invisible Women: Exposing Data Bias in a World Designed for Men – Caroline Criado Perez
- The Airbnb Way: 5 Leadership Lessons for Igniting Growth through Loyalty, Community, and Belonging – Joseph A. Michelli
- The Change Maker’s Playbook: How to Seek, Seed, and Scale Innovation in Any Company – Amy J. Radin
- The Invincible Company: Business Model Strategies From the World’s Best Products, Services, and Organizations – Alexander Osterwalder, Yves Pigneur & Alan Smith
- What CEOs Need to Know about Design – Audrey Crane
- Pirates In The Navy: How Innovators Lead Transformation (Previous books include The Corporate Startup & The Lean Product Lifecycle – Tendayi Viki
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