Recommended Books
Communication, Collaboration & Leadership
- Rise of the DEO by Maria Giudice and Christopher Ireland
- The Innovator’s Way by Peter J. Denning and, Robert P. Dunham
- Solving Tough Problems by Adam Kahane
- Moments of Truth by Jan Carlzon
- Cultural Intelligence by David Thomas
- Selling to the VP of No by David Gray
- Let My People Go Surfing by Yvon Chouinard
- Powers to Lead by Joseph S. Nye
- Difficult Conversations by Douglas Stone, Bruce Patton, Sheila Heen, and Roger Fisher
- A General Theory of Love by Dr. Thomas Lewis
- The Power of a Positive No by William Ury
- The Opposable Mind by Roger Martin
- Emotional Intelligence 2.0 by Travis Bradberry, Jean Greaves, and Patrick M. Lencioni
- Learning to Read the Signs by F. Byron Nasher
Sustainability & Social Innovation
- Climate Capitalism by Hunter L. Lovins and Boyd Cohen
- Beyond Growth by Herman Daly
- Beyond the Bottom Line by Joel Makower
- Beyond the Limits by Donella H. Meadows, Dennis L. Meadows, and Jorgen Randers
- Biomimicry by Janine Benyus
- Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed by Jared Diamond
- Cradle to Cradle by William McDonough and Michael Braungart
- Design + Environment by Helen Lewis, John Gertakis, Tim Grant, Nicola Morelli, and Andrew Sweatman
- Design Is the Problem by Nathan Shedroff
- Emotionally Durable Design by Jonathan Chapman
- The End of Nature by Bill Mckibben
- In the Bubble by John Thackara
- The Joyless Economy by Tibor Scitovsky
- LASER Guide for Sustainable Development
- Leading Change Toward Sustainability by Bob Doppelt
- Management Helix from Natural Capitalism Solutions
- Mid-Course Correction by Ray Anderson
- The Nature of Design by David Orr
- The Next Sustainability Wave by Bob Willard
- The Omnivore’s Dilemma by Michael Pollan
- Organizational Change for Corporate Sustainability by Dunphy & Griffith
- Plan B 4.0 by Lester Brown
- The Shock Doctrine by Naomi Klein
- Silent Spring by Rachel Carson et al
- Squeaky Green by Eric Ryan and Adam Lowry
- Strategy for Sustainability by Adam Werbach
- The Sustainability Advantage by Bob Willard and John Elkington
- Thinking in Systems by Donella Meadows
- The Truth About Green Business by Gil Friend
- The Unsettling of America by Wendell Berry
- Valuing the Earth by Herman E. Daly and Kenneth N. Townsend
Strategy & Business Design
- Making Innovation Work by Tony Davila, Marc J. Epstien, and Robert Shelton
- Business Model Generation by Alexander Osteralder and Yves Pigneur
- Designing Organizations by Jay R. Galbraith
- The Design of Business by Roger Martin
- Change by Design by Tim Brown
- Built to Last by Jim Collins and Jerry I. Porras
- Sustainable Business Development by David L. Rainey
- Designing Brand Identity by Alina Wheeler
- Making Meaning by Steve Diller, Nathan Shedroff, Darrel Rhea
- The Future of Management by Bill Breen and Gary Hamel
- The Lean Startup by Eric Ries
- The Four Steps to the Epiphany by Steve Blank
- Designing for Growth by Jeanne Liedtka and Tim Ogilvie
- The Innovator’s DNA by Clayton M. Christensen, Jeff Dyer & Hal Gregersen
Design & Customer Experience
- Building Strong Brands by David Aaker
- The Creative Priority by Jerry Hirshberg
- Design for the Real World by Victor Papanek
- Design Like You Give a Damn by Cameron Sinclair and Kate Stohr
- Design Research edited by Brenda Laurel
- Experience Design 1.1 by Nathan Shedroff
- Experiences in Visual Thinking by Robert H. McKim
- The Meaning of Things by Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
- Universal Principles of Design by William Lidwell, Kritina Holden, and Jill Butler
- The Visual Display of Quantitative Information by Edward Tufte
- Why We Buy by Paco Underhill
Organizational Culture
- A Whole New Mind by Dan Pink
- The Catalyst by Jeanne Liedtka, Robert Rosen, Robert Wiltbank
- Guide to Organizational Design by Naomi Stanford
- Free Lunch by David Kay Johnson
- Gangs of America by Ted Nace
- As The Future Catches You by Juan Enriquez
- No Logo by Naomi Klein
Economics & Metrics
- Financial Intelligence by Karen Berman, Joe Knight, and John Case
- Fixing the Game by Roger Martin
- Interest and Inflation Free Money by Margrit Kennedy
- Numbers Guide: The Essentials of Business Numeracy by Richard Stutely
- Prophet of Innovation by Thomas McCraw
- Predictably Irrational by Dan Ariel
- Understanding the Corporate Annual Report by Lyn M. Fraser and Aileen M. Ormiston
Entrepreneurship
- New Venture Creation by Jeffry A. Timmons and Stephen Spinelli
- Utopian Entrepreneur by Brenda Laurel
Recommended Articles
- Driving Sustainable Design (BusinessWeek, Special report, July 2, 2007)
- 10 Worst Innovation Mistakes In A Recession (BusinessWeek, 2008)
- Creativity Comes to B-School](http://www.businessweek.com/bschools/content/mar2006/bs20060326_8436_bs0…) (BusinessWeek, 2006)
- Design Intervention (Fast Company, 2006)
- Driving Sustainable Design (BusinessWeek, 2007)
- Innovating Through Recession (Kellog School of Management, 2008)
- CEOs Must Be Designers, Not Just Hire Them. Think Steve Jobs And iPhone. (BusinessWeek, 2008)
- P&G Changes Its Game (BusinessWeek, 2008)
- Tough Love (Fast Company, 2006)
- [Tomorrow’s B-School? It Might Be A D-School](http://www.businessweek.com/magazine/content/05_31/b3945418.htm(BusinessWeek, 2005)
- The Power of Design (BusinessWeek, 2004)
- The MFA in the new MBA (Harvard Business Review, 2008)
- Streamlining HP (Fast Company, 2007)
Recommended Videos
- Ken Robinson: How Schools Kill Creativity (TED Talk)
- Ken Robinson: Changing education paradigms (TED Talk)
- Brené Brown: The power of vulnerability (TEDx Talk)
- Brené Brown: Listening to shame (TED Talk)
- Ray Anderson: The business logic of sustainability (TED Talk)
- Nick Hanauer: Rich People Don’t Create Jobs (TED U Talk)
- Lawrence Lessig: Laws that choke creativity (TED Talk)
- Lawrence Lessig: Re-examining the remix (TED Talk)
- Lawrence Lessig: We the People, and the Republic we must reclaim (TED Talk)
- Elon Musk: The mind behind Tesla, SpaceX, SolarCity (TED Talk)
- Eames Demetrios: The design genius of Charles + Ray Eames
- The Story of Stuff (with Annie Leonard, 2008)
- Janine Benyus: Biomimicry’s surprising lessons from nature’s engineers (TED Talk)
- Lisa Gansky: The future of business is the “mesh” (TEDx Talk)
- Elizabeth Gilbert: Your elusive creative genius (TED Talk)
- Lawrence Lessig: The unstoppable walk to political reform (TED Talk)
Videos
Other Recommendations
Films:
- 9 to 5 (directed by Colin Higgins, 1980) Amazon
- An Inconvenient Truth (directed by Davis Guggenheim, 2008)Amazon
- Deep Dive (ABC News Nightline, 1999)
- Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room (directed by Alex Gibney, 2005) Amazon Netflix
- Food, Inc. (directed by Robert Kenner, 2008) Amazon Netflix
- How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying (directed by David Swift, 1967) Amazon
- The Powers of Ten (directed by Charles and Ray Eames, 1968)Amazon
- *Startup.com (directed by Jehane Noujaim and Chris Hegedus, 2001) Amazon
- Wal-Mart: The High Cost of Low Price (directed by Robert Greenwald, 2005) Amazon Netflix
- Who Killed the Electric Car? (directed by Chris Paine, 2006)Amazon
Sustainability Resources:
• Mobile Phone Recycling Infographics
• Ellen MacArthur Foundation
• Ask Nature
• Flourishing Business Canvas
• Lexicon of Sustainability
• Lexicon of Water
• Lexicon of Food