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Loonshots
- How to Nurture the Crazy Ideas That Win Wars, Cure Diseases, and Transform Industries
- Narrated by: William Dufris, Safi Bahcall - prologue and introduction
- Length: 10 hrs and 14 mins
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Publisher's Summary
This program includes a prologue and introduction read by the author.
Washington Post's "10 Leadership Books to Watch for in 2019", Adam Grant's "19 New Leadership Books to Read in 2019", Inc.com's "10 Business Books You Need to Read in 2019", Business Insider's "14 Books Everyone Will Be Reading in 2019"
“This book has everything: new ideas, bold insights, entertaining history, and convincing analysis. Not to be missed by anyone who wants to understand how ideas change the world.” (Daniel Kahneman, winner of the Nobel Prize and author of Thinking, Fast and Slow)
What do James Bond and Lipitor have in common? What can we learn about human nature and world history from a glass of water?
In Loonshots, physicist and entrepreneur Safi Bahcall reveals a surprising new way of thinking about the mysteries of group behavior that challenges everything we thought we knew about nurturing radical breakthroughs.
Drawing on the science of phase transitions, Bahcall reveals why teams, companies, or any group with a mission will suddenly change from embracing wild new ideas to rigidly rejecting them, just as flowing water will suddenly change into brittle ice. Mountains of print have been written about culture. Loonshots identifies the small shifts in structure that control this transition, the same way that temperature controls the change from water to ice.
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 reveals how this new kind of science helps us understand the behavior of companies and the fate of empires. Loonshots distills these insights into lessons for creatives, entrepreneurs, and visionaries everywhere.
Over the past decade, researchers have been applying the tools and techniques of phase transitions to understand how birds flock, fish swim, brains work, people vote, criminals behave, ideas spread, diseases erupt, and ecosystems collapse. If 20th-century science was shaped by the search for fundamental laws, like quantum mechanics and gravity, the 21st will be shaped by this new kind of science. Loonshots is the first to apply these tools to help all of us unlock our potential to create and nurture the crazy ideas that change the world.
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- Darren
- 2019-04-03
the detail and thought process is excelllent
loved the learning the long true history of so called famous developers and how great success actually happened
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- Mr, V
- 2020-01-25
Educational, Surprising and Inspriational
Pretty strong words, eh?
It was a good book. It is always amazing to me how somethings that we think are logical...are just not.
Serendipity can be as important as facts. The two play together. Structure and Chaos - a time and place for both.
Ego holds us back etc.
Now to get my management to listen to this...if they can get past the ego.
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- Tyler Forster
- 2019-07-17
Grounded Take On Dreaming Big
Fantastic overview of keeping innovation going by separating the two phases: loonshots and franchises, the artists and the soldiers, the creatives and the scales.
Worth listening to for anyone starting, growing or reviving an organization.
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- Ian R. Graham
- 2020-01-10
Loved This Book
Outstanding description of big changes, both good and bad are made to (or not stopped from) happening.
Outstanding historical perspective, examples and pointers on how to build loon shot organizations.
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- anand sriganeshar
- 2019-12-31
Interesting framework to foster loonshots
I enjoyed loonshots because it provides a solid framework on how to foster loonshots in an organizations both big and small. What's exciting is that it provides clear guidance on how any organization can implement this immediately
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- Kazym
- 2019-10-19
Physics as a substitute for a change management model
The case studies are excellent. Although some have been used in other business books.
The phase transitions and physics jargon is really just an analogy for a change management model. It actually doesn’t provide much insight into the issue or as much as using a sociological/psychological approach. For the most part phase transitions is really discussing resisters to change. Using an ice cube analogy at your next board meeting might fall flat, but it is fun to think about.
Looking at organization structure is interesting but how it intersects with culture would probably do more to explain loon shoots.
Read Culture Code instead.
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- Matt
- 2020-01-16
solid idea, but more a history book
The ideas excited we're solid but I found it focused more on historical proof than ways to implement the ideas in your everyday life.
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