Lunch break: Where good ideas come from - Washington Post (blog)
Lunch break: Where good ideas come from Washington Post (blog) Author Steven Johnson lectures — alongside some helpful illustrations — on where good ideas come from. |
With Where Good Ideas Come From, Steven Johnson pairs the insight of his bestselling Everything Bad Is Good for You and the dazzling erudition of The Ghost Map and The Invention of Air to address an urgent and universal question: What sparks the flash of brilliance? How does groundbreaking innovation happen? Answering in his infectious, culturally omnivorous style, using his fluency in fields from neurobiology to popular culture, Johnson provides the complete, exciting, and encouraging story of how we generate the ideas that push our careers, our lives, our society, and our culture forward.
Beginning with Charles Darwin's first encounter with the teeming ecosystem of the coral reef and drawing connections to the intellectual hyperproductivity of modern megacities and to the instant success of YouTube, Johnson shows us that the question we need to ask is, What kind of environment fosters the development of good ideas? His answers are never less than revelatory, convincing, and inspiring as Johnson identifies the seven key principles to the genesis of such ideas, and traces them across time and disciplines.
Most exhilarating is Johnson's conclusion that with today's tools and environment, radical innovation is extraordinarily accessible to those who know how to cultivate it. Where Good Ideas Come From is essential reading for anyone who wants to know how to come up with tomorrow's great ideas.
Why Great Ideas Come In Pairs - Fast Company
Fast Company | Why Great Ideas Come In Pairs Fast Company Most recently, Steven Johnson, in his recent book, Where Good Ideas Come From, enlists biologist Stuart Kauffman's idea of the “adjacent possible” to explain the duplicate invention phenomenon. The adjacent possible theory says that biological systems ... |
Where new ideas come from - The Australian Financial Review
The Australian Financial Review | Where new ideas come from The Australian Financial Review In his book Where good ideas come from and in a YouTube clip of the same name, author Steven Johnson says that when different “hunches” in the minds of different people “collide”, so often something bigger than the sum of their parts is created as a ... and more » |
Increase The Odds Of Creativity - Forbes
Forbes | Increase The Odds Of Creativity Forbes Steven Johnson, in his brilliant book, “Where Good Ideas Come From,” suggests that ideas are the result of collisions between existing ideas. I agree. And, interestingly, the three different kinds of creativity I am proposing below differ only in the ... |
Best-selling Author Steven Berlin Johnson Selected as Business Keynote Speaker ... - MarketWatch (press release)
Best-selling Author Steven Berlin Johnson Selected as Business Keynote Speaker ... MarketWatch (press release) 2 in Las Vegas CompTIA, the non-profit association for the information technology (IT) industry, announced today that Steven Berlin Johnson, author of Where Good Ideas Come From: The Natural History of Innovation and other best-selling books, ... and more » |
Splendor in the Glass -- Harvard's 375th in NYC - Huffington Post (blog)
Splendor in the Glass -- Harvard's 375th in NYC Huffington Post (blog) They engaged aggressively with the audience on where good ideas come from and the culture of competition. Having established that there were innovative companies like Apple and Nike, and not-very-innovative enterprises like the US Postal Service, ... |
JOHN L BROOKS SEEKS TO OCCUPY 51ST DISTRICT CONGRESSIONAL SEAT - East County Magazine
East County Magazine | JOHN L BROOKS SEEKS TO OCCUPY 51ST DISTRICT CONGRESSIONAL SEAT East County Magazine He also emphasized that he did not mind where good ideas come from. “If a good idea is a good idea, it should be used to get things moving” in a positive direction. According to Brooks, improving the US economy will require a two prong approach. and more » |
The #1 Productivity Tool You Aren't Using - Forbes
Forbes | The #1 Productivity Tool You Aren't Using Forbes That was certainly the case for Charles Darwin, who – as profiled in Steven Johnson's Where Good Ideas Come From: The Natural History of Innovation – developed a “slow hunch” that built over time and turned into his theory of evolution. and more » |
暢銷書作家 Steven Berlin Johnson 將參加美國電腦行 - 鉅亨網 (新聞發布)
暢銷書作家 Steven Berlin Johnson 將參加美國電腦行 鉅亨網 (新聞發布) 伊利諾州唐納斯格羅夫, 2012年5月1日/美通社-PR Newswire/ -- 資訊技術(IT) 行業非盈利協會美國電腦行業協會（以下簡稱「CompTIA」）今天宣佈，《Where Good Ideas Come From: The Natural History of Innovation》及其他暢銷書的作者Steven Berlin Johnson 將在IT 領域高 ... and more » |
