Borrowing Brilliance
The Six Steps to Business Innovation by Building on the Ideas of Others

A nice book describing the creative process as an enlightened copying process. The book struck me as very real. The author wrote this in a very conversational way, which I found in turns engaging and off-putting. There are quite a few good examples included, though many are familiar to people that h......more

Finally! A useful book on the elusive topic of creativity with thoughts shared one can actually use. In addition, the author's personal stories of successes and failures in business and personal life are very enlightening and at times amusing. Whether a reader struggles with creativity or is a highl......more

solid book on thinking about thinking and creativity defends plagiarism that results in improvements to the original idea......more

Is it OK to take someone else’s idea and use it to solve your own problem? David Kord Murray says it’s not only OK, he says it’s critical to any achievement. The main point of his book is that it is quite natural to borrow inspiration from others. As a matter of fact, if you look closely, you can se......more

Valuable read. For the overall process I liked the Creative Thinker's toolkit better for a more structured approach and is much more research based but this was a great read immediately following that and delved much deeper into the concept of borrowing brilliance, a ticklish issue that he handled,......more