Breakthrough insights at the intersection of ideas, concepts, and cultures, book summary, audio summary, audio book, frans johansson. Thousands of organizations worldwide have incorporated the medici effect into everything from. The book is called the medici effect because renaissance florence, governed in effect by the wealthy medici banking family, produced a great flourishing of ideas brought about so the theory goes by the bringing together of brilliant people in many spheres of art, culture and enterprise. The medici effect innovation that happens at the intersection of different ideas, experiences, disciplines, etc. Breakthrough insights at the intersection of ideas. The medici effects frans johansson on the intersection of. A young man vied for a job at the medici court with a singular lack of success he was tortured and exiled. A powerful, firstofitskind change management service, renaissance is the product of over a decade of experience accelerating high diversity, high inclusion and high performance teams worldwide, in organizations across industries. Breakthrough insights at the intersection of ideas, concepts, and cultures is a 2004 book written by swedish american entrepreneur frans johansson. No business concept was more important to americas economic revival in the 1990s than reengineering introduced to the world in michael hammer and james champys reengineering the corporation. In this fascinating book, he reveals how we can find intersections in our own lives and turn the ideas we find there into pathbreaking innovations. These new ideas formed from persistent awareness and are what johansson calls flash in.
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Signin to download and listen to this audiobook today. Poets, philosophers, scientists, architects, painters and sculptors from all over europe and elsewhere came together in florence, italy, between the th and. The many stories and examples in the book illustrate how famous discoveries and breakthrough thinking came not out of just pure dumb luck but through the active observation and connection of elements around the innovators. Frans johanssons 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 pathbreaking innovations. Learn vocabulary, terms, and more with flashcards, games, and other study tools. Through a wide set of truly amazing stories of innovation and thoughtprovoking research, johansson details the lessons of many modern day innovators and creativity researchers.
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The medici effects frans johansson on the intersection of innovation and social change. Why do so many worldchanging insights come from people with little. Published by harvard business school press, it was listed as a top 10 business book by and translated into 18 different languages. We share ideas chief executive boards international home. What elephants and epidemics can teach us about innovation revised by johansson, frans, amabile, teresa isbn. The medici effect has become foundational to the fields of innovation, diversity, and inclusion. Why do so many worldchanging insights come from people with little or no related experience. The medici effect, book by frans johansson first part.
Charles darwin was a geologist when he proposed the theory of evolution. The medici highlights the familys literary accomplishments in detail, as well as the story of how the medici became the renaissances most influential family. His fascinating book literally illustrates how vastly different ideas intersected into unexpected and bold new business ideas. Since its publication, the medici effect has become the definitive book on diversity driving innovation, influencing numerous fields and disciplines such as architecture, design, economic development, education, entrepreneurship, and investing. This page is currently inactive and is retained for historical reference.
Explore a compelling selection of books including pale rider, the house of god and the great mortality to name a few to name a few. What elephants and epidemics can teach us about innovation audible audiobook unabridged. Either the page is no longer relevant or consensus on its purpose has become unclear. One of my intellectual heroes, clay christensen, called it one of the most insightful books on managing innovation that he has ever read, and cites it as support of his book the innovators dna. Recently i found a book on this topic entitled the medici effect. Matt insisted upon the medici effect although im not sure the term had yet been coined the medici effect is the idea taken from the wealthy medici family, whose patronage brought poets, philosophers, scientists, painters and other artisans from around europe to florence, italy, between the th and 17th centuries. Largerstronger but slower muscles to smaller weaker but faster muscles.
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