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Adrian J. Slywotzky • The Profit Zone: How Strategic Business Design Will Lead You to Tomorrow's Profits
but now we tend to think more in terms of fertile circumstances, wherein uncountable numbers of minds contribute to a river of innovation.
David Brooks • This Will Make You Smarter
As Joseph Schumpeter first articulated, the power of recombination is the single greatest force driving increases in societal prosperity over the long term.
Philip Auerswald • The Coming Prosperity: How Entrepreneurs Are Transforming the Global Economy
But it can also go the other way. What economics has missed is that adding an incentive—a fine or a bonus—may be subtracting something else, the individual’s sense of responsibility, or obligation, or intrinsic pleasure.
Jessica C. Flack • Worlds Hidden in Plain Sight: The Evolving Idea of Complexity at the Santa Fe Institute, 1984–2019 (Compass)
- Small changes can produce big results—but the areas of highest leverage are often the least obvious.
Peter M. Senge • The Fifth Discipline: The Art & Practice of The Learning Organization
Identify the players constituting each of the five forces and, where appropriate, segment them into groups.
Joan Magretta • Understanding Michael Porter: The Essential Guide to Competition and Strategy
Putting the pieces of the puzzle together, we find that real networks are governed by two laws: growth and preferential attachment.
Jennifer Frangos • Linked: How Everything Is Connected to Everything Else and What It Means for Business, Science, and Everyday Life
The big advantage of physicists—I think Doyne Farmer may have once said this to me—is not what they have learned, the tools. It’s how they have learned to think. In particular, physicists are quite good at being very, very broad, taking tools from all over the place. That is something that economists are very, very remiss in. It is a b—tch to try t
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