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The Medici effect : breakthrough insights at the intersection of ideas, concepts, and cultures

Title
The Medici effect : breakthrough insights at the intersection of ideas, concepts, and cultures / Frans Johansson.
Author
Johansson, Frans.
Publication
Boston, Mass. : Harvard Business School Press, [2004], ©2004.

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Description
xiii, 207 pages; 25 cm
Summary
"According to Frans Johansson, innovators are changing the world by stepping into the Intersection: a place where ideas from different fields and cultures meet and collide, ultimately igniting an explosion of extraordinary new discoveries." "Johansson calls this proliferation of new ideas "the Medici effect" - referring to the remarkable burst of creativity enabled by the Medici banking family in Renaissance Italy. In this book, he reveals how we can find intersections in our own lives and turn the ideas we find there into pathbreaking innovations. Johansson illustrates how three driving forces - the movement of people, the convergence of scientific disciplines, and the leap in computational power - are increasing the number and types of intersections we can access."--BOOK JACKET.
Subject
  • Technological innovations
  • Creative thinking
  • Innovations
  • Pensée créatrice
  • Créativité
  • Innovation technologique
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references (p. 191-200) and index.
Contents
1. The intersection - your best chance to innovate -- 2. The rise of intersections -- 3. Break down the barriers between fields -- 4. How to make the barriers fall -- 5. Randomly combine concepts -- 6. How to find the combinations -- 7. Ignite an explosion of ideas -- 8. How to capture the explosion -- 9. Execute past your failures -- 10. How to succeed in the face of failure -- 11. Break out of your network -- 12. How to leave the network behind -- 13. Take risks and overcome fear -- 14. How to adopt a balanced view of risk -- 15. Step into the intersection.
ISBN
  • 1591391865
  • 9781591391869
LCCN
2004003850
OCLC
  • ocm54460763
  • SCSB-13566377
Owning Institutions
Columbia University Libraries