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Innovation-ish: How Anyone can Create Breakthrough Solutions to Real Problems in the Real World Book Cover
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In a World Where Problems are Everywhere, See Opportunity. Your Essential Guide to Everyday Innovation.

Innovation-ish: How Anyone Can Create Breakthrough Solutions to Real Problems in the Real World is your no-nonsense guide to unlocking your innate creativity. Expertly crafted by design strategist Richard Braden and cognitive scientist Tessa Forshaw, this book skips the fluff and dives straight into actionable strategies to ignite your innovative potential.

Shadow Rich and Tessa through their years of experience. Get behind the scenes access to classrooms, companies, and institutions alongside students and professionals, just like you. Hear stories of real people with real challenges and how they learn and discover innovative new solutions by unlocking their creative potential.

Innovation-ish shows you how to solve problems and generate solutions in a huge variety of personal and professional situations. It’s a must-read for people at any stage of life and at any point on their innovation journey.

If you're new to innovation, this new way of thinking about innovation gives you an easy way in and helps set you on the path.
If you've been trying to innovate and haven't been successful, Innovation-ish explains why you've been struggling and how to turn your project around.
If you're experiencing “imposter syndrome,” Innovation-ish reassures you that you're in the right place and have what you need to do it.
If you have been successful, Innovation-ish helps you amplify it.

They demystify the myths that surround innovation, reveal the six mindsets that underlie innovation, and show how the moves you make drive innovation forward. And they share the latest relevant cognitive science research in a compelling and digestible way - no degree required.

After years as design educators at Harvard and Stanford and consulting with clients around the world they have seen that anyone, regardless of their background, can be Innovation-ish. Packed with clear, actionable steps, it's the definitive guide for managers, executives, entrepreneurs, founders, and team leaders ready to turbocharge their organizations, projects, and careers.

With an Innovation-ish approach, you can solve problems and generate solutions to challenges in your personal life, a small business, a startup or in any department or function of any type of organization.

All you need is an open mind and small sense of adventure. Let's go!
  • Business
Storytelling with Data: Before and After - Practical Makeovers for Powerful Data Stories Book Cover
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How do you turn a forgettable graph into a compelling data story?

For more than a decade, the team at storytelling with data has helped leading organizations and countless professionals transform their business communications into action-inspiring narratives. Now, they're bringing the best of those lessons to you—in the beloved before-and-after format synonymous with their popular workshops. Through twenty powerful makeovers, watch ineffective charts evolve into engaging visuals that captivate, inform, and lead to smarter decisions.

World-renowned data storytellers Mike Cisneros, Alex Velez, and SWD founder Cole Nussbaumer Knaflic guide you through proven methods to strengthen your communications, sharing the thought process behind each redesign so you can confidently apply the concepts to your work. Building on core principles from the international bestseller storytelling with data, refined through thousands of workshops, they demonstrate the straightforward, intentional changes—like simplifying visuals, eliminating clutter, and emphasizing key insights—that will transform your graphs and slides from the expected to the extraordinary.

In storytelling with before and after, you'll learn how

Structure stories that connect with your audience Create visuals that clarify complex information Apply color, layout, and design to focus attention on what matters most Overcome common challenges like time constraints and poorly designed templates Craft narratives that make an impact and influence outcomes Every page of storytelling with before and after is packed with insights drawn from real-world experience, distilled into easy-to-implement strategies. No matter your role, experience level, or comfort with data, you'll learn practical lessons you can apply right away. Each transformation delivers meaningful takeaways to help you create data stories that resonate—and get results.

This book is your ultimate blueprint for turning graphs into persuasive, decision-driving stories.
  • Business
  • Non-fiction
Maximum Delivery: Project Management Toolkit Book Cover
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You’re staring at project failures—missed deadlines, budget overruns, and misaligned teams eating away at profits. Leaders describe this frustration as a “sinking ship” where every step feels like wading through mud. Without a clear system, you’re stuck in a pattern of late awareness, reacting instead of leading. These challenges aren’t just delays—they’re costly erosions of trust and credibility. Each missed milestone compounds financial pressures, casts doubt on your leadership, and risks strategic goals, leaving you scrambling to recover.

Stop project madness in its tracks, turn sleepless nights into predictable success.

There is a Solution!

Imagine a world where projects finish on time, within budget, and align with strategic priorities. The Project Toolkit delivers answers through real-world use cases, provides work products, deliverables, templates, checklists, and step-by-step guides to bridge talent with proven techniques that ensure success. Prioritize fresh thinking, adaptability, and continuous improvement over rigid adherence to outdated frameworks. Maximum Delivery challenges traditional norms and replaces them with what works. Bridge the gap between learning and doing—transforming knowledge into capability with innovative tools like The Magic Thread, The Ticking Clock and Racing Feet, Helping Hands, the Merry Crew, The Sneaky Shadows, The Twisty Turns, You’re Doing it Wrong and the Talking Strings that Tie Us Tight. Dare to Rise Above the Ordinary . Dive into Maximum Delivery and make every project a WIN!

Winning The Psychological Blueprint for Project Mastery
For the seasoned Beyond PMP, Redefining Excellence in Project Leadership – this toolkit goes further than PMI canons. Instead of rehashing PMBOK standards, it challenges conventional methods with innovative governance models, Agile-infused strategies, and real-world case studies that reveal where traditional approaches fall short. By combining system thinking, change management frameworks, and advanced stakeholder engagement techniques, it equips experts to reinvent how projects are delivered in today’s dynamic environments. Far from just “managing,” this approach redefines leadership—shifting focus from compliance to value creation, adaptability, and long-term impact.
For the The path is clear and approachable. We guide you step by step—crawl, walk, run, fly — starting with the core knowledge areas and principles every project manager must master. Readers gain all the structure and resources needed to pursue the Project Management Professional (PMP) credential or confidently prepare for the certification process. But the journey doesn’t stop at theory. The toolkit removes stale, outdated techniques and replaces them with real-world strategies that change behavior. Mentoring aspiring leaders to manage people, processes, and technology in today’s business culture.
  • Business
  • Self help
From Zero to Unicorn: The Ultimate Guide to Building a Customer Success Team That Powers Billion-Dollar Growth Book Cover
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Create a Customer Success team that moves the needle on retention and revenue.

The Ultimate Guide to Building a Customer Success Team That Powers Billion-Dollar Growth.

Are you ready to build a Customer Success team that doesn’t just support customers — but drives explosive growth, skyrockets retention, and turns clients into lifelong advocates?

Whether you’re an early-stage founder, a new Customer Success leader, or a VP at a scaling startup, From Zero to Unicorn is your step-by-step playbook for creating a world-class Customer Success organization from the ground up.

Inside this book, you’ll discover:

- How to define Customer Success and differentiate it from support and service — the foundation for lasting impact.

- Proven strategies for landing your first customers and creating a seamless handoff from sales to success.

- The secret sauce for hiring, onboarding, and scaling high-performing Customer Success Managers (CSMs).

- Actionable frameworks for segmenting customers, building automated engagement models, and delivering personalized experiences at scale.

- Expert insights on choosing and implementing the right tools and technologies to supercharge your CS team’s productivity.

- How to measure success with the right KPIs and turn customer advocacy into your startup’s most powerful growth engine.

- Leadership advice and cultural best practices to inspire your team and build a customer-obsessed organization.

A future-focused look at emerging trends shaping Customer Success — so you stay ahead of the curve.



Written by a Silicon Valley veteran who built a Customer Success team from scratch at a startup that became a billion-dollar unicorn, this book combines real-world experience with practical guidance.

No fluff. No theory. Just actionable advice you can use tomorrow.
  • Business
  • Non-fiction
Creative Machines: AI, Art & Us Book Cover
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A bold and thought-provoking journey into AI's power to transform human creativity

In Creative AI, Art & Us, world-renowned AI researcher and generative AI pioneer, Maya Ackerman, takes you on a thrilling journey into the rise of creative AI, from its earliest pioneers to the cutting-edge tools shaping music, art, and human imagination today.

Ackerman cuts through the hype, revealing the true capabilities and limitations of generative AI while championing its potential to amplify human creativity rather than replace it. Drawing on psychology, philosophy, and her own cutting-edge research, she reveals how generative AI exposes both the brilliance and the blind spots of human society—our ingenuity, our biases, our assumptions about intelligence and identity.

The book

The hidden history and explosive growth of AI-generated creativity Explorations of the true capabilities and limitations of creative AI A visionary framework for using AI as a tool to enhance, rather than hinder, human creativity A bold new perspective on AI ethics and why fixing AI is not enough Perfect for entrepreneurs, tech leaders, developers, ethicists, and creative professionals, Creative Machines offers deep insights, compelling stories, and a visionary perspective on AI's impact on human society. An essential read for anyone doing their best to navigate the rapidly evolving landscape of generative AI.
  • Business
  • Science
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