Sir Isaac Newton once said:
If I have seen further it is by standing on ye shoulders of giants.
(Although this appears to come from Bernard of Chartres)
And, in his recent blog post, Seth Godin updates this quote by saying:
If you don’t know who the must-reads in your field are, find out before your customers and competitors do.
You can’t stand on the shoulders of giants if you don’t know who are the giants.
Isaac Newton image from Wikipedia
I’ve started this process in the field of innovation. And a great book recommended by my well-read colleague Sean Spence is Scott D Anthony’s The Little Black Book of Innovation. In Anthony’s book he has a chapter called The Masters of Innovation. He presents his list of 12 innovation masters. Here they are and the name of their seminal work (mostly books):
[Tweet “12 Masters of Innovation #innovationleaders”]
QUESTION: Who are the leaders in your field? And, what are you doing to learn from them?
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