Innovators must prepare for their journey like adventurers: studying the conditions and being prepared to respond to dynamic elements along their path.

In the 20th edition of strategy+business’s Best Business Books section, our writers identify the three most compelling reads in seven genres.

University College London professor Vaughn Tan offers lessons in innovation from the world of high cuisine.

NYU’s Christian Busch makes the case that serendipity is a skill, resulting from a mindset that allows you to see and act on opportunities in seemingly unrelated facts or events.

Disciplined, rigorous testing of ideas and strategies is fundamental to innovation, but businesses are often held back by misconceptions.

In his new book, Harvard Business School prof Gary Pisano offers senior leaders a three-part solution to the innovation challenge.

In her book on inventive genius, Melissa Schilling delves into the personality traits that lead to breakthroughs. See also “Summer Reading: 8 Business Books – in Pictures”

A veteran management professor at Cornell University’s ILR School recommends four books that can help leaders hone the ability to achieve their agendas.

There’s no scientific method for coming up with brilliant new ideas. But the authors of a new book argue that a set of habits can help foster innovation.