Tom Kelley

Fire Up Innovation: A Book Review by Bob Morris

February 28, 2024

Fire Up Innovation: Sparking and Sustaining Innovation Teams Helene Cahen Strategic Insights Press (2023) Channeling Henry Ford, “Whether you think you can or can’t be creative, you’re  probably right.” Tom Kelley and David Kelley share these thoughts in Creative Confidence:…

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HBR Guide to Unlocking Creativity: A Book Review by Bob Morris

September 5, 2023

HBR Guide to Unlocking Creativity Various Contributors Harvard Business Review Press (January 2019) How to see key issues differently, spark high-impact innovation, and solve tough problems As you probably know already, most of the volumes in the “HBR Guide to”…

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Hidden Genius: A book review by Bob Morris

June 27, 2023

Hidden Genius: The Secret Ways of Thinking That Power the World’s Most Successful People Polina Marinova Pompliano Harriman House (June 2023) “Whether you think you can or think you can’t, you’re probably right.” Henry Ford Why did Polina Marinova Pompliano…

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Creativity Without Frontiers: A book review by Bob Morris

December 4, 2021

  Creativity Without Frontiers: How to Make the Invisible Visible by Lighting the Way Into the Future Roy Sharples Unknown Origins (April 2021) An essential aspect of creativity is having no fear of failure.” Edwin Land Most (not all) human…

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Creative Confidence: A book review by Bob Morris

September 23, 2020

Creative Confidence: Unleashing the Creative Potential Within Us All David Kelley and Tom Kelley Currency (October 2013) How almost anyone can develop a creative, human-centered mindset and help achieve breakthrough innovations I read and reviewed this book when it was…

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Your Creative Mind: A book review by Bob Morris

May 1, 2020

Your Creative Mind: How to Disrupt Your Thinking, Abandon Your Comfort Zone, and Develop Bold New Strategies Scott Cochrane Weiser (September 2016) “If you give me six hours to chop down a tree, I’ll spend the first four sharpening the…

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Bernhard Schroder’s Simply Briliant: A book review by Bob Morris

November 3, 2016

Simply Brilliant: Powerful Techniques to Unlock Your Creativity and Spark New Ideas Bernhard Schroeder AMACOM (October 2016) “Make everything as simple as possible but no simpler.” Albert Einstein In Creative Confidence: Unleashing the Creative Potential Within Us All, Tom Kelley…

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David Kelley on “How to Build Your Creative Confidence”

December 2, 2015

About three years ago, David Kelley delivered a TED Talk that has since been seen by almost 4,000,000 people all over the world. He is the founder and chairman of IDEO. He also founded Stanford University’s Hasso Plattner Institute of…

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Creative Strategy Generation: A book review by Bob Morris

August 17, 2015

Creative Strategy Generation: Using Passion and Creativity to Compose Business Strategies That Inspire Action and Growth Bob Caporale McGraw-Hill (2015) “The essence of strategy is choosing what not to do.” Michael Porter Throughout the last several decades, I have been…

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A mini-interview of Bernie Roth, author of The Achievement Habit

July 2, 2015

I have just read Bernard Roth‘s The Achievement Habit: Stop Wishing, Start Doing, and Take Command of Your Life and will soon review it. Meanwhile, here is a mini-interview of Roth by his friend and colleague, David Kelley. Thank you,…

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