The medici effect

Breakthroughs Insights at the Intersection of Ideas, Conceps & Cultures

Frans Johansson

207 pages, parution le 21/09/2004

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Why is it that so many world-changing insights come from people with little or no related experience? Charles Darwin, after all, 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 argues that breakthrough ideas most often occur when we bring concepts from one field into new, unfamiliar territory. In this space--which Johansson calls "the Intersection"--established ideas clash and combine with insights from other fields, disciplines, and cultures, resulting in an explosion of totally new ideas. The Medici Effect--referring to a remarkable burst of creativity in Florence during the Renaissance--shows us how to get to the Intersection and how we can turn the ideas we discover there into path-breaking innovations. From the insight that created the first Cherokee written language to the ideas that enabled scientists to read the mind of a monkey--The Medici Effect is filled with vivid stories of intersections across domains as diverse as business, science, art, and politics. Johansson reveals the core principles--including breaking down associative barriers, routinely combining unlike concepts, and executing past your failures--that can enable individuals, teams, and entire organizations to create their own "Medici effects" in any arena of work and life. Frans Johansson is a writer, consultant, and entrepreneur residing in New York City.

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Part I : The Intersection
- The Intersection - Your Best Chance to Innovate
- The Rise of Intersections
Part II : Creating the Medici Effect
- Break Down the Barriers Between Fields
- How to Make the Barriers Fall
- Randomly Combine Concepts
- How to Find the Combinations
- Ignite an Explosion of Ideas
- How to Capture the Explosion
Part III : Making Intersectional Ideas Happen
- Execute Past Your Failures
- How to Succeed in the Face of Failure
- Break Out of Your Network
- How to Leave the Network Behind
- Take Risks and Overcome Fear
- How to Adopt a Balanced View of Risk
- Step into the Intersection …

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	PAPIER
Éditeur(s)	Harvard Business School Press (HBS)
Auteur(s)	Frans Johansson
Parution	21/09/2004
Nb. de pages	207
Format	16 x 24,5
Couverture	Relié
Poids	522g
Intérieur	Noir et Blanc
EAN13	9781591391869