Safi Bachall: Loonshots - Innovation Though The Lens Of A Physicist
Safi Bahcall is a second-generation physicist and entrepreneur, whose first book,\xa0Loonshots, has been described as a cross between Freakonomics and the da Vinci Code. At the heart of the book is a philosophy which is foundational for everything we do at OutsideLens: that you can learn a great deal by applying the tools and techniques from one world, in this case the world of physics and to a lesser extent psychology, to the world of innovation in business.\xa0
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What Was Covered:\xa0\xa0- How the structure of a company, rather than its culture, enables or disables innovation\xa0
- The two basic phases in any organisation \u2013 who are \u201cartists\u201d and \u201csoldiers\u201d and how to achieve an equilibrium between them \xa0
- The three key elements to build a sustainable innovation system \u2013 the metaphor of the ice cube, the garden hoe and the heart\xa0
- Using the lens of phase transitions to understand and benefit from structural forces which operate in any organization\xa0\xa0\xa0\xa0
- Why leaders need to keep their artists and soldiers separate when they want to engage in innovation\xa0\xa0
- Persistence as the main factor of innovation and\xa0how \u201cthe rule of three deaths\u201d applies to science and business breakthroughs\xa0\xa0
- Loonshots:\xa0How to Nurture the Crazy Ideas That Win Wars, Cure Diseases, and Transform Industries,\xa0a book by Safi Bahcall
- Safi Bahcall\u2019s\xa0website
- Connect with Safi on\xa0LinkedIn\xa0and\xa0Twitter
- McKinsey & Company\xa0\u2013 Global Management Consulting
- The President\u2019s Council of Advisors on Science and Technology \u2013 PCAST
- Science the Endless Frontier\xa0\u2013 A Report to the President by Vannevar Bush
- Misbehaving: The Making of Behavioral Economics, a book by Richard Thaler
- Thinking, Fast and Slow, a book by Daniel Kahneman