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Brynteson, Richard.

Innovation at work : 55 activities to spark your team’s creativity / Richard Brynteson.

p. cm.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN 978-0-8144-3234-1

1. Management—Technological innovations. 2. Creative ability in business. 3. Teams in the workplace. 4. Organizational change. I. Title.

HD30.2.B796  2013

658.4’022—dc23

2012017450

© 2013 by HRD Press

All rights reserved.

Printed in the United States of America.

Published by AMACOM Books, a division of the American Management Association.

The worksheets on the pages listed here have been adapted from other sources as follows: Worksheet #4 on pg 35, A Whole New Mind, adapted from A Whole New Mind by Daniel Pink. Worksheet #11 on pg. 69, Problem Solving Methodology, is based on work by The Creative Problem Solving Institute. Worksheet #13 on pg 119, Sources of Innovation, is adapted from Innovation and Entrepreneurship by Peter Drucker. Worksheet #14 on pg 125, The Ten Faces of Innovation, is adapted from The Ten Faces of Innovation by Tom Kelley. Worksheet #22 on pg 179, Criteria for Innovations, adapted from the video Tactics of Innovation by Joel Barker.

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