20 Great Summer Reads

Business Week (7/15, Joseph) – Summertime means it's time to kick back with a good book or two. But while you're resting, why not learn something, too? Here are BusinessWeek's picks of recent innovation and design related literature that are suitable for both the hammock and the boardroom.

1. A Fine Line: How Design Strategies are Shaping the Future of Business
2. Innovation Tournaments: Creating and Selecting Exceptional Opportunities
3. The Silver Lining: An Innovation Playbook for Uncertain Times
4. Ignore Everybody: and 39 Other Keys to Creativity
5. The Age of the Unthinkable: Why the New World Disorder Constantly Surprises Us And What We Can Do About It
6. Tools for Innovation
7. The Rudolph Factor: Finding the Bright Lights that Drive Innovation in Your Business
8. Wild Design: Ecofriendly Innovations Inspired by Nature
9. Conquering Innovation Fatigue: Overcoming the Barriers to Personal and Corporate Success
10. After the Car
11. Hidden Champions of the Twenty-First Century: The Success Strategies of Unknown World Market Leaders
12. Innovation Myths and Mythstakes
13. Free: The Future of a Radical Price
14. Say Everything: How Blogging Began, What It's Becoming, and Why It Matters
15. What Would Google Do?
16. How The Mighty Fall: And Why Some Companies Never Give In
17. The Blue Sweater: Bridging the Gap Between Rich and Poor in an Interconnected World
18. Bricklin on Technology
19. The Innovation Zone: How Great Companies Re-Innovate for Amazing Success
20. Jeff Immelt and the New GE Way: Innovation, Transformation and Winning in the 21st Century