Introduction
1. The Innovator’s Hypothesis, Michael Schrage. MIT Press, 2014.
2. “The Mashup: Merging Ideas Takes More Than Wishful Thinking, It Takes Integrative Thinking,” by Roger Martin and Jennifer Riel, Rotman Management, Winter 2011.
3. Kross, E. et al, “Self-talk as a Regulatory Mechanism: How You Do It Matters,” Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, Vol 106(2), Feb 2014, 304-324.
Chapter 1
4. Blink, Malcolm Gladwell. Little, Brown and Co., 2005.
5. San Wan Lee, John P. O’Doherty, Shinsuke Shimojo (2015), “Neural Computations Mediating One-Shot Learning in the Human Brain.” PLoS Biol 13(4): e1002137. doi:10.1371/journal.pbio.1002137.
6. A More Beautiful Question, Warren Berger. Bloomsbury, 2014.
7. Interview for OPEN Forum, April 25, 2014. http://www.americanexpress.com/us/small-business/openforum/articles/the-power-of-asking-the-right-questions/.
Chapter 2
8. DeYoung C., Flanders J., Peterson J., “Cognitive Abilities Involved in Insight Problem Solving: An Individual Differences Model,” Creative Research Journal, 20(3), 278–290, 2008.
Chapter 3
9. See http://marshmallowchallenge.com.
10. Bassett, Danielle and Grafton, Scott et al. “Learning-Induced Autonomy of Sensorimotor Systems.” Nature Neuroscience 18, 744-751 (2015).
11. The Design of Business, by Roger L. Martin, p. 41. Harvard Business Press, 2009.
12. Playing to Win, by Roger Martin and A.G. Lafley. Harvard Business Review Press, 2013.
13. The Innovator’s Hypothesis, by Michael Schrage. MIT Press, 2014.
14. Ibid.
15. Ibid.
Chapter 4
16. “Doing Better but Feeling Worse,” Psychological Science, February 2006, vol. 17 no. 2, 143-150.
17. “Maximizers, Satisficers, and Their Satisfaction with and Preferences for Reversible Versus Irreversible Decisions,” Social Psychological and Personality Science, November 2015, vol. 6 no. 8, 896-903.
18. The Sciences of the Artificial, by Herbert Simon. MIT Press, 1969.
19. “The Mashup: Merging Ideas Takes More Than Wishful Thinking, It Takes Integrative Thinking,” by Roger Martin and Jennifer Riel, Rotman Management, Winter 2011.
20. Adapted from “The Mashup: Merging Ideas Takes More Than Wishful Thinking, It Takes Integrative Thinking,” by Roger Martin and Jennifer Riel, Rotman Management, Winter 2011.
21. Source of quote: Wikipedia.
22. “Integrative Thinking Three Ways: Creative Resolutions to Wicked Problems,” Roger Martin and Jennifer Riel, Rotman Management, Spring 2012.
23. Both can be entered online.
24. “The Mashup: Merging Ideas Takes More Than Wishful Thinking, It Takes Integrative Thinking,” by Roger Martin and Jennifer Riel, Rotman Management, Winter 2011.
Chapter 5
25. Cliffy: The Cliff Young Story, by Julietta Jameson. The Text Publishing Company, 2013.
26. This story is adapted from Playing to Win, by Roger L. Martin and A. G. Lafley. Harvard Business Review Press, 2013.
27. Meaning and Void: Inner Experience and the Incentive in People’s Lives, by Eric Klinger. University of Minnesota Press, 1977.
28. Brandstatter V., Herrmann M., and Schuler J., “The Struggle of Giving Up Personal Goals: Affective, Physiological, and Cognitive Consequences of an Action Crisis,” Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin 39(12) 1668-1682.
29. Spunt R., Falk E., and Lieberman M., “Dissociable Neural Systems Support Retrieval of How and Why Action Knowledge.” Psychological Science 21 (11) 1593-1598.
30. Duckworth A., Peterson C., “Grit: Perseverance and Passion for Long-Term Goals,” Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 2007. Vol. 92, No. 6, 1087-1101.
31. The One Thing You Need To Know, by Marcus Buckingham. Simon & Schuster, 2005.
32. Dai H., Milkman K., Riis J., “The Fresh Start Effect: Temporal Landmarks Motivate Aspirational Behavior,” Management Science, June 2014 60:10, 2563-2582.
33. The Cambridge Handbook of Expertise and Expert Performance, edited by K. Anders Ericsson et al. Cambridge University Press, 2006.
Chapter 6
34. http://factoryjoe.com/blog/2007/08/25/groups-for-twitter-or-a-proposal-for-twitter-tag-channels/.
35. http://blogs.wsj.com/digits/2013/10/03/how-twitters-hashtag-came-to-be/.
36. Ibid.
37. Antons D., Piller F., “Opening the Black Box of ‘Not Invented Here’: Attitudes, Decision Biases, and Behavioral Consequences,” Academy of Management Perspectives 2015, Vol. 29, No. 2, 193–217.
38. “The Neuroscience of Leadership,” Jeffrey Schwartz and David Rock, Strategy+Business, Issue 43.
39. “Connect and Develop, Inside Procter & Gamble’s New Model for Innovation,” Harvard Business Review, March 2006.
Chapter 7
40. The original 2010 slideshow contained 14 items and can be viewed on Vimeo at https://vimeo.com/10175915. Five years after the original slideshow, Moon posted a revised checklist, containing three fewer elements. The 11-item version shown here can be seen on HBR at https://hbr.org/2015/04/an-anti-creativity-checklist-for-2015.
41. Creativity in Business, Michael Ray and Rochelle Myers. Doubleday, 1989.
42. Do the Work, Steven Pressfield. The Domino Project, 2011.
43. You Are Not Your Brain, Jeffrey Schwartz MD and Rebecca Gladding MD. Avery, 2011.
44. Ibid.
45. “Causal Control of Medial–Frontal Cortex Governs Electrophysiological and Behavioral Indices of Performance Monitoring and Learning,” Reinhart R. and Woodman G., The Journal of Neuroscience, 19 March 2014, 34(12): 4214-4227.
46. Gilbert P. et al, “Having a Word with Yourself: Neural Correlates of Self-Criticism and Self-Reassurance,” NeuroImage 49 (2010) 1849-1856.
47. My interview with Ellen Langer, October 5, 2015.
48. Your Brain At Work, David Rock. HarperCollins, 2009. p. 88.
49. Ibid, p. 89.
50. “Ellen Langer on the Value of Mindfulness in Business,” by Art Kleiner, Strategy+Business, February 2015.
51. You Are Not Your Brain, Jeffrey Schwartz MD and Rebecca Gladding MD. Avery, 2011.
52. Kross, E. et al, “Self-Talk as a Regulatory Mechanism: How You Do It Matters,” Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, Vol. 106(2), Feb 2014, 304–324.
53. “The Voice of Reason,” by Pamela Weintraub, Psychology Today, May 2015.
54. Viewable on YouTube at https://youtu.be/gjGL6YY6oMs.
55. Jia L., Hirt E., Karpen S., “Lesson from a Faraway Land: The Effect of Spatial Distance on Creative Cognition,” Journal of Personality and Social Psychology 96 (2009): 1047-61.