Orbiting the Giant Hairball: Still the Best Book on Corporate Creativity

As a short follow-up to my last post, I re-read Hairball last week, and it is still my favorite book about what it feels like to do creative work in a big organization and what it takes to make it happen. It isn’t evidence-based (although a lot of what he suggests is consistent with research on creativity, such as in Dean Keith Simonton’s book on Genius and stuff I review in Weird Ideas That Work). This book is inspiration for people who do creative work, and ammunition against people who try to stop them.  Gordon Mackenzie was a gentle genius.