My long-time friend and former IdeaFlow contributor Joyce Wycoff of the Innovation Network is one of the most innovative people I know! Joyce always has a new idea for getting people together and stimulating new ideas and discussions. I introduced her to blogging and she has started many blogs since -- numbering into the double digits! many of them are project-related blogs, which is an excellent use of the collaborative creative process blogging can facilitate.

Joyce's newest blog is one for her new Innovation Book Club for 2006. I think this is a great idea and plan to participate myself. Here's Joyce's description of the book club: "Out of a list of 90 best-selling books related to innovation, twelve were chosen by a group of avid readers and innovation practitioners as the must-read list for 2006. It was a difficult choice but these special books were chosen for their ability to stimulate thought and offer practical tools and techniques to help make participants more productive advocates and leaders of innovation."

Via the blog and emails, book club members will have access to reviews, Q&A sessions with the authors, weekly emails with insights and highlights from the books, and readers' guides that will offer great discussion questions to help you integrate the book content with your specific situation. Also participants will be able to make comments via the blog.

There are two ways to participate: You can join the book club today and start organizing your own discussion group ... or just participate in the online discussion. There are pricing options for both. For more information on how to join and fee options, go to http://thinksmart.com/library/bookclub.html

Here's the list of books for 2006:

January: The Ten Faces of Innovation by Tom Kelley, IDEO; or

Alternative January Selection: Dealing with Darwin: How Great Companies Innovate at Every Phase of their Evolution by Geoffrey A. Moore

February: How Breakthroughs Happen, the Surprising Truth about How Companies Innovate by Andrew Hargadon, Associate Professor of Management, University of California, Davis

March: Blue Ocean Strategy: How to Create Uncontested Market Space and Make the Competition Irrelevant by W. Chan Kim and Renee Mauborgne

April: The Leader’s Guide to Storytelling, Mastering the Art and Discipline of Business Narrative by Stephen Denning

May: The Tipping Point by Malcolm Gladwell

June: Let My People Go Surfing: The Education of a Reluctant Businessman by Yvon Chouinard

July: Punished by Rewards, the Trouble with Gold Stars, Incentive Plans, A’s, Praise, and Other Bribes by Alfie Kohn

August: The Medici Effect: Breakthrough Insights at the Intersection of Ideas, Concepts & Cultures by Frans Johansson

September: The Art of Possibility by Benjamin and Rosemund Zander

October: Making Innovation Work ... How to Manage It, Measure It, and Profit from It by Davila, Epstein, Shelton

November: How to Think Like Leonardo DaVinci by Michael Gelb

December: Creativity at Work, Developing the Right Practices to Make Innovation Happen by Jeff DeGraff and Katherine Lawrence