Loonshots: How to Nurture the Crazy Ideas That Win Wars, Cure Diseases, and Transform Industries Audiobook (Free)

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What carry out James Bond and Lipitor have as a common factor? What can we learn about human nature and world history from a glass of water?

In Loonshots, physicist and entrepreneur Safi Bahcall reveals a about Loonshots: How to Nurture the Crazy Tips That Win Wars, Cure Illnesses, and Transform Industries unexpected 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 stage transitions, Bahcall shows why teams, firms, or any group using a mission can suddenly change from embracing crazy new suggestions to rigidly rejecting them, just as flowing water will suddenly become brittle snow. Mountains of print have been written about culture. Loonshots identifies the tiny shifts in structure that control this changeover, the same way that temperature settings the differ from water to snow.

Using illustrations that add the spread of fires in forests to the hunt for terrorists online, and stories of thieves and geniuses and kings, Bahcall shows how this brand-new kind of science assists us understand the behavior of companies and the destiny of empires. Loonshots distills these insights into lessons for creatives, business owners, and visionaries almost everywhere.

Over the past decade, researchers have been applying the tools and techniques of phase transitions to comprehend how birds flock, fish swim, brains function, people vote, criminals behave, ideas spread, diseases erupt, and ecosystems collapse. If twentieth-century science was shaped by the seek out fundamental laws, like quantum mechanics and gravity, the twenty-first will be formed by this fresh kind of research. Loonshots may be the first to use these tools to greatly help all of us unlock our potential to generate and nurture the crazy tips that change the world.

“This book has everything: new ideas, strong insights, entertaining background and convincing evaluation. Not to end up being skipped by anyone who would like to understand how suggestions change the globe.” -Daniel Kahneman, winner from the Nobel Award and writer of Thinking, Fast and Slow