Are there any books with strategies for building an organizational culture that drives innovation?
3 min readJun 20, 2019
Originally answered Dec 2, 2017
- The Knowledge-Creating Company: How Japanese Companies Create the Dynamics of Innovation by Ikujiro Nonaka and Hirotaka Takeuchi
- Enabling Knowledge Creation: How to Unlock the Mystery of Tacit Knowledge and Release the Power of Innovation by Georg von Krogh, Kazuo Ichijo, and Ikujiro Nonaka
- The Innovator’s Method: Bringing the Lean Start-up into Your Organization by Nathan Furr and Jeff Dyer
- The Innovator’s DNA: Mastering the Five Skills of Disruptive Innovators by Jeff Dyer, Hal Gregersen, and Clayton M. Christensen
- The Innovator’s Dilemma: The Revolutionary Book that Will Change the Way You Do Business by Clayton M. Christensen
- The Innovator’s Solution: Creating and Sustaining Successful Growth by Michael E. Raynor and Clayton M. Christensen
- The Innovator’s Manifesto: Deliberate Disruption for Transformational Growth by Michael E. Raynor
- The New Age of Innovation: Driving Cocreated Value Through Global Networks by C.K. Prahalad and M.S. Krishnan
- Leading for Innovation: And Organizing For Results edited by Frances Hesselbein. Marshall Goldsmith, and Iain Somerville
- Innovation and Entrepreneurship by Peter Drucker
- The Myths of Innovation by Scott Berkun
- Gaming to Innovate — The Innovation Game: How to Leverage Gamification to Unleash the Breakthrough Beast in Your Organization and Create an Unstoppable Innovative Culture by Curtiss Witt
- The Organizational Network Fieldbook: Best Practices, Techniques and Exercises to Drive Organizational Innovation and Performance by Robert L. Cross, Jean Singer, Sally Colella, Robert J. Thomas, and Yaarit Silverstone
- Smarter Innovation: Using Interactive Processes to Drive Better Business Results Edited by Katrina Pugh
- X-teams: How to Build Teams That Lead, Innovate and Succeed by Deborah Ancona and Henrik Bresman
- Hot Spots: Why Some Companies Buzz with Energy and Innovation, and Others Don’t by Lynda Gratton
- Leading for Innovation: And Organizing For Results edited by Frances Hesselbein. Marshall Goldsmith, and Iain Somerville
- What’s the Big Idea: Creating and Capitalizing on the Best Management Thinking by Thomas H. Davenport, Laurence Prusak, and H. James Wilson
- Wellsprings of Knowledge: Building and Sustaining the Sources of Innovation by Dorothy Leonard-Barton
- Making Innovations Happen: Fostering innovations by inducing foresightby Ravi Arora
- Where Good Ideas Come From: The Natural History of Innovation by Steven Johnson
- The Innovation Zone: How Great Companies Re-Innovate for Amazing Success by Thomas M. Koulopoulos
- Getting Innovation Right: How Leaders Leverage Inflection Points to Drive Success by Seth Kahan
- The Innovator’s Toolkit: 50+ Techniques for Predictable and Sustainable Organic Growth by David Silverstein, Philip Samuel, and Neil DeCarlo
- The XYZ Factor: Guide to Creating a Culture of Impact edited by Nancy Lublin and Alyssa Ruderman
- The High-Speed Company: Creating Urgency/Growth in a Nanosecond Culture by Jason Jennings and Laurence Haughton
- Primed to Perform: Build Highest Performing Cultures Through Science of Total Motivation by by Neel Doshi and Lindsay McGregor
- Practice What You Preach: What Managers Must Do to Create a High-Achievement Culture by David Maister
- The Culture of Collaboration: Maximizing Time, Talent and Tools to Create Value in the Global Economy by Evan Rosen
- Corporate Culture and Performance by John P. Kotter and James L. Heskett
- The Critical Few: Energize Your Company’s Culture by Choosing What Really Matters by Jon R. Katzenbach, James Thomas, and Gretchen Anderson
- The Culture Code: The Secrets of Highly Successful Groups by Daniel Coyle
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