the medici effect
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The Medici Effect: What Elephants and Epidemics Can Teach Us About
Innovation
Presented BY :
Ahmad Shalabi
The Idea
• The idea behind this book is simple: When you step into an intersection of fields, disciplines, or cultures, you can combine existing concepts into a large number of extraordinary new ideas.
The Intersection””Your Best Chance to Innovate
• Two kinds of innovation: directional and intersectional
• Intersectional innovations happen in the Intersection
The Rise of Intersections
• The movement of people
• The convergence of science
• The leap of computation
Creating the Medici Effect
• Break Down the Barriers Between Fields
• What is associative barrier?
How to Make the Barriers Fall ?
• How to Make the Barriers Fall ?
• Diversity !!
• learn differently, and see from multiple perspectives.
Randomly Combine Concepts
• Different concepts And :
• Randomness .
• luck is an important factor
Find the Combinations
• Diversifying occupations.
• Interacting with diverse groups of people.
• Introducing randomness into your thinking pattern.
Ignite an Explosion of Ideas
• The best way to get a good idea is to have a lot of ideas.
• Scientists, artists, and writers with the best ideas are those who produce the most ideas.
How to Capture the Explosion?
• Understanding of the fields.
• Generate many ideas. (brainstorming)
• Evaluating the ideas.
Making Intersectional Ideas Happen
• Execute Past Your Failures ( Difficult Part )
• Be ready to change your execution plan
• Break Out of Your Network
• Stop relying on them
• Take Risks and Overcome Fear (don’t try to minimize risk!!)
• Acknowledging your fear
Step into the Intersection . . .
• If you want to help create the future, find your way to the Intersection.