Enter Innovation's Most Fertile Breeding Ground Why is it that so many world-changing insights come from people with little or no related experience? Charles Darwin, after all, was a geologist when he proposed the theory of evolution. And it was an astronomer who finally explained what happened to the dinosaurs. Frans Johansson argues that breakthrough ideas most often occur when we bring concepts from one field into new, unfamiliar territory. In this space-which Johansson calls "the Intersection"-established ideas clash and combine with insights from other fields, disciplines, and cultures, resulting in an explosion of totally new ideas. The Medici Effect -referring to a remarkable burst of creativity in Florence during the Renaissance -shows us how to get to the Intersection and how we can turn the ideas we discover there into pathbreaking innovations. From the insight that created the first Cherokee written language to the ideas that enabled scientists to read the mind of a monkey- The Medici Effect is filled with vivid stories of intersections across domains as diverse as business, science, art, and politics. Johansson reveals the core principles-including breaking down associative barriers, routinely combining unlike concepts, and executing past your failures-that can enable individuals, teams, and entire organizations to create their own "Medici effects" in any arena of work and life.

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美第奇效應:創新靈感與交叉思維

弗朗斯·約翰鬆是美國布朗大學環境保護科學學士、哈佛商學院MBA。現從事谘詢工作，尤其專注於介紹各種類型的交叉思維概念。此前他還是企業軟件開發公司Inka．net的創始人兼CEO。他研究的範圍極其廣泛，包含瞭工商管理、垂釣運動、冒險遊戲等領域。該書首次齣版以後，作者2005年進行瞭“美第奇效應”巡迴演講，其足跡遍及《財富》500強中各類公司，包括耐剋、通用汽車、摩托羅拉、IBM、摩根大通、柯達等。