What do you do when you're stumped?

I think you're probably like me when stumped by a business problem....I get advice from my network of business associates. But what if its 3AM? If its late, I sometimes do a web search or I fire off an email. Typically though I dive into a set of books I keep around for inspiration. Most times I gain a answer to the problem.

I have 27 such books. In fact here's a picture of them....



A business person could suceed at anything with this pool of knowledge. Perhaps some of these books can help you....here is a full list with some linked to the Amazon customer review:

• Advertising Media A to Z by Surmanek
• Best Practices of Product Innovation by American Quality Productivity Institute
• Beyond Reengineering by Michael Hammer
• Creating the Innovation Culture by Horibe
• Creativity by Michaly Csikszentmihalyi
• Crucial Confrontations by Patterson, Grenny, McMillan, Switzer
• Drilling for Gold by John Warrilow
• Flow by Michaly Csikszentmihalyi
• Fortune Favors The Bold by Lester Thurow
• Learned Optimism by Martin Seligman
• Moneyball by Michael Harris
• Portfolio Management for New Products by Cooper, Edgett, Kleinschmidt
• Product Development for the Service Sector by Cooper and Edgett
• Quicksilver by Neil Stephenson
• Re-imagine by Tom Peters
• Show Stopper! by G. Zachary Pascal
• Snowcrash by Neal Stephenson
• The 48 Laws of Power by Robert Greene
• The Art of Innovation by Tom Kelley
• The Inginuity Gap by Thomas Homer-Dixon
• The Leadership Challange by Koozes and Posner
• The Luck Factor by Dr. Richard Wiseman
• The New New Thing by Michael Lewis
• The Tipping Point by Malcolm Gladwell
• Who Says Elephants Can't Dance by Louis V. Gerstner
• Winning at New Products by Robert G. Cooper