Book description
Why do so many world-changing insights come from people with little or no related experience? Charles Darwin was a geologist when he proposed the theory of evolution. And it was an astronomer who finally explained what happened to the dinosaurs.
Frans Johansson's The Medici Effect shows how breakthrough ideas most often occur when we bring concepts from one field into a new, unfamiliar territory and offers examples of how we can turn the ideas we discover into path-breaking innovations.
Clayton M. Christensen, bestselling author of The Innovator's Dilemma, has described The Medici Effect as "one of the most insightful books about managing innovation I have ever read. Its assertion that breakthrough principles of creativity occur at novel intersections is an enduring principle of creativity that should guide innovators in every field."
Now with a new preface and a discussion guide, and a foreword by Harvard Business School professor Teresa Amabile, The Medici Effect is a timeless classic that will help you reach your innovative peak.
Table of contents
- Cover
- Title
- Copyright
- Contents
- Foreword, by Teresa Amabile
- Preface
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- PART ONE : The Intersection
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PART TWO : Creating the Medici Effect
- three: Break Down the Barriers Between Fields: Sea Urchin Lollipops and Darwin’s Finches
- four: How to Make the Barriers Fall: Heathrow Tunnel and Restaurants Without Food
- five: Randomly Combine Concepts: Card Games and Sky Rises
- six: How to Find the Combinations: Meteorite Crashes and Code Breakers
- seven: Ignite an Explosion of Ideas: Submarines and Tubular Bells
- eight: How to Capture the Explosion: MacGyver and Boiling Potatoes
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PART THREE : Making Intersectional Ideas Happen
- nine: Execute Past Your Failures: Violence and School Curricula
- ten: How to Succeed in the Face of Failure: Palm Pilots and Counterproductive Carrots
- eleven: Break Out of Your Network: Ants and Truck Drivers
- twelve: How to Leave the Network Behind: Penguins and Meditation
- thirteen: Take Risks and Overcome Fear: Airplanes and Serial Entrepreneurs
- fourteen: How to Adopt a Balanced View of Risk: Elephants and Epidemics
- fifteen: Step into the Intersection … and Create the Medici Effect
- Notes
- Index
- Discussion Guide
- About the Author
Product information
- Title: The Medici Effect, With a New Preface and Discussion Guide
- Author(s):
- Release date: February 2017
- Publisher(s): Harvard Business Review Press
- ISBN: 9781633692954
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