In the spirit of always being in beta, never leaving well enough alone,
and continuing to use this blog as an intellectual sandbox, the staff
of metacool have made a few small changes to this blog.
First, a shift from nouns to verbs. Sharp-eyed web surfers will notice
that the topical categories on metacool are no longer nouns. Instead
of “design”, there’s “designing”. Innovation is now innovating,
leading has replaced leadership, and marketing is, well... marketing.
Doing seems more important to me than ever, and so the verbs have it.
Second, we’ve rounded up a group of books and placed them under the
heading of — hold on to your seat, folks — COOL BOOKS. I find myself
going back to these again and again for clarity, insight, and
inspiration. This list is partly for me, so that I can remember what I've read that worked for me. Hopefully you'll find it useful, too.
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Favorite Posts
- A million reasons why...
- Mo Cheeks and a fundamental question of leadership
- Innovation Lessons from Garage Majal
- From Obama to Pink to Oprah
- Shinya Kimura and the primacy of doing
- A tribute to friends and friendship
- Strategy that makes your hands bleed
- Quality in a switch
- Travis Pastrana and the future of the world economy
on the nightstand
Principles for Innovating
- 1: Experience the world instead of talking about experiencing the world
- 2: See and hear with the mind of a child
- 3: Always ask: "How do we want people to feel after they experience this?"
- 4: Prototype as if you are right. Listen as if you are wrong.
- 5: Anything can be prototyped. You can prototype with anything.
- 6: Live life at the intersection
- 7: Develop a taste for the many flavors of innovation
- 8: Most new ideas aren't
- 9: Killing good ideas is a good idea
- 10: Baby steps often lead to big leaps
- 11: Everyone needs time to innovate
- 12: Instead of managing, try cultivating
- 13: Do everything right, and you'll still fail
- 14: Failure sucks, but instructs
- 15: Celebrate errors of commission. Stamp out errors of omission.
- 16: Grok the gestalt of teams
- 17. It's not the years, it's the mileage
- 18: Learn to orbit the hairball
- 19: Have a point of view
- 20: Be remarkable
Hi Diego, I've really enjoyed reading some of the books you've recommended in the past. Of the 20 books you've now highlighted, what would you pick as your top 5? (I have a 25% off book voucher running out this week!)
Posted by: Design_Ultimatum | 01 October 2007 at 04:53 AM
Hmmm... my metacool generalist Top 5:
- Emotional Design
- Innovator's Solution
- Getting Past No
- Made to Stick
- Influence
That was hard! Five is tough. Let me know if you'd like a different cut at the list.
Posted by: Diego Rodriguez | 01 October 2007 at 05:34 PM