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PUNK: Prompts and Provocations for Authentic Innovations

This punk rock innovation guide invites you to think for yourself, not by yourself. To explore the intersection of anger, empathy, imagination, and action. To oppose tyranny and systems of oppression. To build welcoming communities. To see the beauty of punk’s raw experimentation and creative energy. To also see the ways punk is terrible. And to understand that the best thing you can do with a question has nothing to do with answering it..

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 LIFT Innovation Lessons From Flying Machines That ALMOST Worked and The People Who NEARLY Flew Them

LIFT is a playful introduction to flying machines from the late 1800’s and the inspiring people who designed, built, launched, and crashed them. It is also a serious guide to innovation for 21st century problem solvers.

 “A soaring history of the unsung pioneers of flight, offering real-world lessons for 21st century innovators.” -August Cole, co-author of Ghost Fleet

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The Simplicity Cycle A Field Guide to Making Things Better Without Making Them Worse (buy here)

THE SIMPLICITY CYCLE is an engaging and accessible field guide that equips readers with practical tools to produce elegant, efficient designs. It takes a deep and lighthearted look at the ways complexity enhances or diminishes the things we make and use, from PowerPoint presentations and pizza to spacecraft and software..

“If I could ask my clients to read one book before we work together, it would be The Simplicity Cycle by Dan Ward…. it’s simply brilliant.” –Peter Morville, President of Semantic Studios

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F.I.R.E. How Fast, Inexpensive, Restrained, and Elegant Methods Ignite Innovation

Innovation doesn’t have to cost so much, take so long, or be so complicated. F.I.R.E. provides an accessible look at the core practices and principles of rapid innovation, drawn from decades of practical experience and deep research.

“There is an immediate sense, as you begin reading F.I.R.E., that author Dan Ward knows exactly who he is, what his message is, and to what type of reader his book is going to appeal. As such, there is a confidence and conciseness to his book that inspires a kind of instant camaraderie.” Jack Covert, 800 CEO Read

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