Loonshots

Nurture the Crazy Ideas That Win Wars, Cure Diseases, and Transform Industries

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<p>* Instant <b><i>Wall Street Journal</i> bestseller</b> <br>* Translated into 18 languages<br>* <b>#1 Most Recommended Book </b>of the year (Bloomberg annual survey of CEOs and entrepreneurs)<br>* An <b><i>Bloomberg</i>, <i>Financial Times</i>, <i>Forbes, Inc.</i>, <i>Newsweek</i>, Strategy + Business, Tech Crunch, <i>Washington Post</i> </b>Best Business Book of the year<br>* Recommended by <b>Bill Gates, Daniel Kahneman, Malcolm Gladwell, Dan Pink, Adam Grant, Susan Cain, Sid Mukherjee, Tim Ferriss</b><br><br><i>Why do good teams kill great ideas?</i><br><br><i>Loonshots</i> reveals a surprising new way of thinking about the mysteries of group behavior that challenges everything we thought we knew about nurturing radical breakthroughs.<br><br>Safi Bahcall, a physicist and entrepreneur, shows why teams, companies, or any group with a mission will suddenly change from embracing new ideas to rejecting them, just as flowing water will suddenly change into brittle ice. Mountains of print have been written about <i>culture</i>. <i>Loonshots</i> identifies the small shifts in <i>structure</i> that control this transition, the same way that temperature controls the change from water to ice.<br><br>Using examples that range from the spread of fires in forests to the hunt for terrorists online, and stories of thieves and geniuses and kings, Bahcall shows how a new kind of science can help us become the initiators, rather than the victims, of innovative surprise.<br><br>Over the past decade, researchers have been applying the tools and techniques of this new science-the science of phase transitions-to understand how birds flock, fish swim, brains work, people vote, diseases erupt, and ecosystems collapse. <i>Loonshots</i> is the first to apply this science to the spread of breakthrough ideas. Bahcall distills these insights into practical lessons creatives, entrepreneurs, and visionaries can use to change our world.<br><br>Along the way, readers will learn how chickens sav

Artikeldetails

EAN

9781250623096

Sprache

Englisch

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Taschenbuch

Maße

206 x 134 x 27 mm

Erscheinungsjahr

2021

Verlag / Hersteller

Macmillan USA