The best book on innovation? There are, of course, a great many to choose from. The bookshelves groan under the weight of innovative wisdom.  Among our own favorites is the large, rambling and gushingly anecdotal, Liberation Management, a sprawling compendium of Tom Peters’ thinking on management in the ‘nanosecond nineties’.

The original manuscript was 1,900 pages long and was only reduced to a manageable size after a third of the material was cut.  It is, observed Karl Weick, written in ‘hyper-text’. The language is colorful - ‘middle managers, as we have known them, are cooked geese‘; ‘the . . .