Resources
Books by our team
2026
Mission Freed: A practical introduction to AI for Catholic parishes
by Wes Luttrell and Tad Dickel, Ph.D.
2026
Legacy Giving for Churches: Ensuring long-term sustainability through a planned giving society
by Tad Dickel, Ph.D.
2023
Purposeful Leadership anthology: Strategic Planning chapter
by Tad Dickel, Ph.D.
2022
Catholic School Planned Giving: Ensuring long-term sustainability through a legacy giving society
by Tad Dickel, Ph.D.
2021
Strategic Planning for Catholic Parishes: Listening, learning, and responding through the lens of Pope Francis’s teachings on synodality
by Tad Dickel, Ph.D.
Resources list
by david M. Kelley and Tom Kelley
The authors of this book provide strategies that can help anyone increase their creative capacity. There are examples of how organizations have utilized the techniques to become more creative and innovative.
by Warren Berger (Harvard Business Review)
The power of the phrase “how might we” is discussed. Min Basadur is credited with using the phrase for the last 40+ years. Innovative organizations such as IDEO, Google, and Facebook use this phrase.
by Soren Kaplan, Ph.D.
This book is a quick but valuable read for any organization that wants to develop a more innovative culture. Success stories and tools are included.
HBR article by D. Minor, P. Brook, and J. Bernoff
This article looks at data and shares that innovative organizations generate more ideas and have systems in place to collect ideas, review them, and implement them. They also stress the importance of having diversity of people involved with innovation.
by Walter Isaacson
This comprehensive biography of Apple icon Steve Jobs is a great read. Jobs’s ability to innovate was due to his ability to recognize needs before people realized they had them. He also stressed the importance of in person collaboration to drive creativity and innovation.
George Land provides a historical context for creativity. His creativity work with NASA was then applied to a longitudinal study on creativity that demonstrates creativity decreases from childhood to adulthood
Basadur Applied Creativity provides training in creative problem solving, articles, books, and other resources.
The brief video introduces IDEO’s approach to solving problems. They practice important skills, including deferring judgement, empathy, and prototyping.