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The Teeming V ideas have emerged from years of experience with organizations of all kinds, diligent study, and writing about what we have learned in our monthly Innovation Tips letters.

The theoretical foundation for our work has been drawn from an array of other writers and theorists, among them:
Peter Drucker, Jim Collins, C.G. Jung, Abraham Maslow, Warren Bennis, Joseph Campbell, Julia Cameron, Clayton Christensen, David Cooperrider, Mihaly Csikszentmilhalyi, Edwards Deming, Mathew Fox, Jane Jacobs, Tom Peters, Ricardo Semler, Peter Senge, Jack Stack, Robert Townsend, Roger Van Oech, Margaret Wheatley, David Whyte, Benjamin Zander, Teresa Amibilie, and Chris Argyris

Books...

Adams, Richard. Watership Down. William Morrow and Co., 1975

Belasco, James. Teaching the Elephant to Dance: The Manager’s Guide to Empowering Change. Penguin, 1991.

Belasco, James and Stayer, Ralph C. Flight of the Buffalo: Soaring to Excellence, Learning to Let Employees Lead. Warner Books, Inc., 1994.

Bennis, Warren G. and Biederman, Patricia W. Organizing Genius: The Secrets of Creative Collaboration. Perseus Publishing, 1998.

Bolen, Jean Shinoda. Gods in Every Man: A new Psychology of Men’s Lives and Loves. Harper Trade, 1990.

________. Godesses in Every Woman: A New Psychology of Women. HarperCollins Publishing, 1985.

Bohm, David. Wholeness and the Implicate Order. Routledge, 1996.

Brown, John Seely. Seeing Differently: Insights on Innovation. Harvard Business School Publishing, 1997.

Browne, Neil and Keeley, Stuart M. Asking the Right Questions: A Guide to Critical Thinking. Prentice Hall PTR, 2000.

Buckingham, Marcus and Coffman, Curt. First Break All the Rules: What the World’s Greatest Managers Do Differently. Simon & Schuster Trade, 1999.

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Cameron, Julia. The Artist’s Way: A Spiritual Path to Higher Creativity. J.P. Tarcher, 1992.

Capra, Fritjof. The Tao of Physics: An Exploration of the Parallels Between Modern Physics and Eastern Mysticism. Shambhala Publications, Inc., 1999.

Christensen, Clayton. The Innovator’s Dilemma: When New Technologies Cause Great Firms to Fail. Harvard Business School Publishing, 1997.

Collins, Jim Good to Great: Why Some Companies Make the Leap…and Others Don’t. HarperCollins Publishers, 2001.

Collins, Jim and Porras, Jerry. Built to Last: Successful Habits of Visionary Companies. Harper Business, 1996.

Cooperrider, David L. et. al. eds. Appreciative Inquiry: Rethinking Human Organization Toward Positive Theory of Change. Stipes Publishing L.L.C., 1999.

Csikszentmilhalyi, Mihaly. Creativity: Flow and the Psychology of Discovery and Invention. HarperTrade, 1997.

Dannemiller Tyson Associates. The Whole-Scale Change Toolkit. Berrett-Koehler Publishers, 2000.

________. Whole-Scale Change, Unleashing the Magic in Organizations. Berrett-Koehler Publishers, 2000.

de Bono, Edward. de Bono’s Thinking Course. Facts on File,Inc., 1994.

De Geus, Arie. The Living Company: Habits for Survival in a Turbulent Business. Harvard Business School Publishing, 1997

Deming, W. Edwards. Out of the Crisis. MIT Press, 2000.

Drucker, Peter. Innovation and Entrepreneurship: Practice and Principles. Harper Business, 1986.

________. Management Challenges for the 21st Century. Harper Business, 2001.

________. Managing in Turbulent Times. Harper Business, 1985.

________. Managing in a Time of Great Change. Dutton/Plume, 1997.

________. Managing for the Future: The 1990’s and Beyond.Plume/Penguin, 1993.

________. Managing for Results: Economic Tasks and Risk-Taking Decisions. HarperInformation, 1986.

________. The Age of Discontinuity: Guidelines to Our Changing Society. Transaction Publishers, 1992.

________. The New Realities: In Government and Politics, In Economics and Business, In Society and World View. Harper Business, 1994.

Drucker, Peter with contributions by De Pree, Max and Buford, Robert. Managing the Non Profit Organization. Harper Business, 1992.

Dyer, Wayne. Your Sacred Self. HarperCollins Publishers, 1996.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo; Atkinson, Brooks ed. The Essential Writings of Ralph Waldo Emerson. Random House Inc., 2000.

Estes, Clarissa Pinkola. Women Who Run with the Wolves: Myths and Stories of the Wild Woman Archetype. Ballantine Books, Inc., 1996.

Foster, Jack. How to Get Ideas. Berret-Koehler Publishers, 1996.

Foster, Richard. Innovation: The Attacker’s Advantage. Summit Books, 1986.

Fox, Mathew. The Reinvention of Work: A New Vision of Livelihood for Our Time. HarperCollins Publishers, Inc., 1995.

Fox, Mathew and Tucci, Candy. Meditations with Meister Eckhart. Bear & Company, 1984.

Gelb, Michael. How to Think Like Leonardo da Vinci: Seven Steps to Genius Every Day. Bantam Doubleday Dell Publishing Group, 1998.

Geneen, Harold and Bowers, Brent. The Synergy Myth: And Other Ailments of Business Today. St. Martin’s Press, 1997.

Hamel, Gary. Leading the Revolution. Harvard Business School Publishing, 2000.

Hamel, Gary and Phahalad, C.K. Competing for the Future. Harvard Business School Publishing, 1996.

Harvard Business Review. Harvard Business Review on Innovation. Harvard Business School Press, 2001.

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Hillman, James. The Soul’s Code, In Search of Character and Calling. Warner Books, 1997.

Hock, Dee. Birth of the Chaordic Age. Berrett-Koehler, 1999.

Hoenig, Christopher. The Problem Solving Journey, Your Guide for Making Decisions and Getting Results. Perseus Publishing,2000.

Isaacs, William. Dialogue and the Art of Thinking Together: A Pioneering Approach to Communicating in Business and in Life. Doubleday & Company, Inc., 1999.

Jackson, Phil. Sacred Hoops: Spiritual Lessons of a Hardwood Warrior. Hyperion Press, 1996.

Jacobs, Jane. The Death and Life of Great American Cities. Random House, 1993.

Jaworski, Joseph. Synchronicity: The Inner Path of Leadership. Berrett-Koehler Publishers, 1998.

Johnson, Robert. Ecstasy: Understanding the Psychology of Joy. Harper & Row, 1987

________. He: Understanding Masculine Psychology. Harper & Row,1989.

________. She, Understanding Feminine Psychology. HarperTrade,1989.

________. Inner Work: Using Dreams and Active Imagination for Inner Growth. Harper San Francisco, 1989.

Johnson, Spencer. Who Moved My Cheese? An Amazing Way to Deal with Change in Your Work and in Your Life. Putnam Publishing, 1998.

Johnston, J. Graham. The Call Within. iUniverse.com, Inc., 2001.

Jung, C.G. The Archetypes & the Collective Unconscious. (CW 9). Princeton University Press, 1980.

________. Memories, Dreams, Reflections. Vintage Books, 1989.

________. Modern Man in Search of a Soul. Harcourt, 1976.

________. Psychological Reflections. Princeton University Press, 1973.

________. Psychological Types. (CW 6). Princeton University Press, 1976.

________. Synchronicity: An Acausal Connecting Principle. Princeton University Press, 1972.

Keirsey, David W. and Bates, Marilyn. Please Understand Me: Character and Temperament Types. Prometheus Books, 1985.

Kelly, Tom. The Art of Innovation: Lessons in Creativity from IDEO, America’s Leading Design Firm. Doubleday & Company, Inc., 2001.

Kao, John. Jamming: The Art and Discipline of Business Creativity. Harper Business, 1997.

Katzenbach, Jon. The Wisdom of Teams: Creating the High-Performance Organization. Harper Business, 1994.

Kleiner, Art. The Age of Heretics: Heroes, Outlaws, and the Forerunners of Corporate Change. Bantam Doubleday Dell Publishing Group, 1996.

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Kuhn, Thomas. The Structure of Scientific Revolution. University of Chicago Press, 1996.

Levy, Steven. Insanely Great: The Life and Times of the Macintosh, the Computer That Changed Everything. Viking Penguin, 1993.

Levoy, Gregg Micheal. Callings, Finding and Following an Authentic Life. Crown Publishing Group, 1998.

Loomis, Mary E. Dancing the Wheel of Psychological Types. Chiron Publications, 1991.

Lopez-Pedraza, Raphael. Dionysus in Exile: On the Repression of the Body and Emotion. Chiron Publications, 2000.

Maslow, Abraham. Maslow on Management. John Wiley & Sons, 1998.

________. Toward a Psychology of Being. Van Nostrand Reinhold, 1968.

May, Rollo. Freedom and Destiny. W.W. Norton & Company, 1981.

McCullough, David. John Adams. Simon and Schuster, 2001.

Michalko, Michael. Cracking Creativity: The Secrets of Creative Genius. Ten Speed Press, 2001.

Mintzberg, Henry. The Rise and Fall of Strategic Planning: Reconceiving Roles for Planning, Plans, Planners. Simon & Shuster Trade, 1993.

Moore, Robert and Gillette, Douglas. King, Warrior, Magician, Lover: Rediscovering the Archetypes of the Mature Masculine. HarperCollins Publishers, Inc., 1991.

________. The King Within: Accessing the King in the Male Psyche. William Morrow & Co., 1993.

Moore, Thomas. Care of the Soul, a Guide for Cultivating Depth and Sacredness in Everyday Life. HarperTrade, 1993.

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Nesbitt, John. Megatrends 2000: New Directions for Tomorrow. William Morrow and Co., 1991.

Patino, Rick. Success is a Choice: Ten Steps to Overachieving in Business and Life. Broadway Books, 1997.

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________. Awakening the Heroes Within. HarperSanFrancisco, 1991.

Peck, Scott. The Different Drum: Community Making and Peace. Simon & Schuster, 1987.

________. The Road Less Traveled: A New Psychology of Love, Traditional Values and Spiritual Growth. Simon and Schuster Trade, 1997.

Peters, Tom. The Circle of Innovation: You Can’t Shrink Your Way to Greatness. Alfred A. Knopf, 1997.

________. The Pursuit of Wow: Every Person’s Guide to Topsy-Turvy Times. Random House, 1994.

Pfeffer, Jeffrey and Sutton, Robert I. The Knowing-Doing Gap: How Smart Companies Turn Knowledge into Action. Harvard Business School Publishing, 1999.

Plato, Rouse (translator). Great Dialogues of Plato: Complete Texts of the Republic, Apology, Crito, Phaido, Ion, Meno, and Symposium. N A L, 1999.

Rich, Ben. Skunk Works. Brown and Company, 1996.

Rhodes, Richard. Making of the Atomic Bomb. Simon & Schuster, 1995.

Robbins, Harvey and Finley, Michael. Why Teams Don’t Work: What Went Wrong and How to Make it Right. Peterson’s, 1995.

Rogers, Everett M. Diffusion of Innovation. Simon & Schuster Trade, 1996.

Sanford, John. The Kingdom Within: The Inner Meaning of Jesus’ Sayings. Harper San Francisco, 1987.

________. The Man Who Wrestled With God. Paulist Press, 1981.

________. Mystical Christianity. Crossroad Publishing Company, 1993.

Schank, Roger and Childers, Peter G. The Creative Attitude, Learning to Ask and Answer the Right Questions. Macmillan Publishing Company, Inc., 1988.

Schumacher, E.F. Small Is Beautiful: Economics as if People Mattered. HarperTrade, 1989.

Seifter, Harvey. Leadership Ensemble, Lessons in Collaborative Management from the World’s Only Conductorless Orchestra. Henry Holt & Company, Inc., 2001.

Semler, Ricardo. Maverick: The Success Story Behind the World’s Most Unusual Workplace. Warner Books, Inc., 1994.

Senge, Peter, et. al. The Dance of Change: The Challenges to Sustaining Momentum in a Learning Organization. Doubleday & Company, Inc., 1999.

________. The Fifth Discipline: The Art and Practice of the Learning Organization. Doubleday & Company, Inc., 1994.

Shrage, Michael. Serious Play: How the World’s Best Companies Simulate to Innovate. Harvard Business School Publishing, 1999.

Smith, Douglas K. and Alexander, Robert C. Fumbling the Future: How Xerox Invented, Then Ignored the First Personal Computer. iUniverse.com, Inc., 1999.

Sobol, Robert. When Giants Stumble: Classic Business Blunders and How to Avoid Them. Prentice Hall Press, 1999.

Spoto, Angelo. Jung’s Typology in Perspective. Chiron Publications, 1995.

Stack, Jack. The Great Game of Business: Unlocking the Power and Profitability of Open-Book Management. Doubleday & Company, 1994.

Toms, Michael and contributors. The Soul of Business. Hay House, Inc., 1997.

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Thompson, Henry L. Jung’s Function-Attitudes Explained. High Performing Systems, Inc., 1996.

Thoreau, Henry David. Walden and Other Writings. Barnes & Noble Books, 2000.

Townsend, Robert. Further Up the Organization: How to stop Management from Stifling People and Strangling Productivity. Alfred Knopf, 1984.

Trout, Jack. Differentiate or Die: Survival in Our Era of Killer Competition. John Wiley and Sons, Inc., 2001.

Van Oech, Roger. A Whack on the Side of the Head: How to Unlock Your Mind for Innovation. Warner Books, 1983.

Von Frantz, Marie Louise and Hillman, James. Jung’s Typology. Spring Publications, 1971.

Welch, Jack. Jack: Straight from the Gut. Warner Books, 2001.

Wheatley, Margaret. Leadership and the New Science: Discovering Order in a Chaotic World. Berrett-Koehler Publishers, 1999.

Wheatley, Margaret and Kellnor-Rogers, Myron. A Simpler Way. Berrett-Koehler Publishers, 1998.

Whyte, David. The Heart Aroused: Poetry and the Preservation of the Soul in Corporate America. Doubleday & Company, Inc., 1996.

Williamson, Marianne. A Return to Love: Reflections on the Principles of a Course in Miracles. HarperTrade, 1996.

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Zander, Rosamund and Zander, Benjamin. The Art of Possibility: Transforming Professional and Personal Life. Harvard Business School Publishing, 2000.

Articles...

Amibile, Teresa. “How to Kill Creativity.” Harvard Business Review. September-October, 1998.

Argyris, Chris. “Teaching Smart People How to Learn.” Harvard Business Review. June, 2001.

Bernick, Carol Levin. “When Your Culture Needs a Makeover.” Harvard Business Review. June, 2001.

Bellman, Matthias and Schaffer, Robert H. “Freeing Managers to Innovate.” Harvard Business Review. June, 2001.

Bloom, Harold. “A Reading List for Bill Gates—and You: A Conversation with Literary Critic Harold Bloom.” Harvard Business Review. May, 2001.

Bonabeau, Eric and Meyer, Christopher. “Swarm Intelligence: A Whole New Way to Think About Business.” Harvard Business Review. May, 2001.

Case, John. “When Salaries Aren’t Secret.” Harvard Business Review. May, 2001.

Christiansen, Clayton M. “Assessing Your Organization’s Innovative Capabilities.” Leader to Leader. Vol 21, Summer, 2001.

Collins, Jim. Turning Goals Into Results: The Power of Catalytic Mechanisms.” Harvard Business Review. July-August, 1999.

Collins, James C. and Porras, Jerry I. “Building Your Company’s Vision.” Harvard Business Review. September-October, 1996.

Drucker, Peter. The Discipline of Innovation. Harvard Business Review. November-December, 1998.

Eisenhardt, Kathleen and Sull, Donald N. “Strategy as Simple Rules.” Harvard Business Review. January, 2001.

Hansen, Morten T. “Introducing T-shaped managers: Knowledge Management’s Next Generation.” Harvard Business Review. March, 2001.

Leonard, Dorothy and Rayport, Jeffrey. “Spark Innovation Through Empathetic Design.” Harvard Business Review. Nov-Dec, 1997.

Morgan, Nick. “How to Overcome ‘Change Fatigue.’” Harvard Management Update. July, 2001.

Nemeth, Charlan Jeanne. “Managing Innovation: When Less is More.” California Management Review. Vol 40, No. 1. Fall, 1997.

Oncken, William and Wass, Donald L. “Management Time: Who’s Got the Monkey?” Harvard Business Review. November-December,1999.

Pfeffer, Jeffrey. “Six Dangerous Myths About Pay.” Harvard Business Review. May-June, 1998.

Prokesch, Steven E. “Unleashing the Power of Learning: An Interview with British Petroleum’s John Browne.” Harvard Business Review. September-October, 1997.

Sandberg, Kirsten D. “The Case for Slack: Building ‘Incubation Time’ into Your Week.” Harvard Management Update. June, 2001.

Seifter, Harvey. “The Conductor-less Orchestra.” Leader to Leader. Vol. 21, Summer, 2001.

Semler, Ricardo. “How We Went Digital Without A Strategy.” Harvard Business Review. Sept-Oct, 2000.

Sull, Donald N. “Why Good Companies Go Bad.” Harvard Business Review. July-August, 1999.

Thomke, Stefan. “Enlightened Experimentation: The New Imperative for Innovation.” Harvard Business Review. February, 2001.

Wetflaufer, Suzy. “The Business Case Against Revolution: An Interview with Nestle’s Peter Brabeck.” Harvard Business Review. February, 2001.

Zehnder, Egon. “A Simpler Way to Pay.” Harvard Business Review. April, 2001.