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Medici Effect What Elephants and Epidemics Can Teach Us about Innovation

The Medici Effect: What Elephants and Epidemics Can Teach Us about Innovation

By Frans Johansson

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 how we can turn the ideas we discover into path-breaking innovations.

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Book Information

Publisher: Harvard Business Review Press
Publish Date: 03/07/2017
Pages: 256
ISBN-13: 9781633692947
ISBN-10: 1633692949
Language: English

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February 08, 2008

Medici Effect Available For Free Online

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Frans Johansson's Medici Effect is now available for free as a pdf download from his website. It is an interesting experiment for him and his publisher Harvard Business School Press to see if you can give it away and improve sales of a two and a half year old book. Love seeing this kind of experimentation. READ FULL DESCRIPTION

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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 how we can turn the ideas we discover into path-breaking innovations.

About the Author

An entrepreneur, creative thinker, and acclaimed international speaker, Frans Johansson has lived all his life at the Intersection. Raised in Sweden by his Swedish father and African American/Cherokee mother and educated at Brown University and Harvard Business School, he has started a health-care business, a software company, a hedge fund, and an innovation firm.

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