The Medici Effect

Innovation happens when we are somehow thrown off course or when we look at things with new eyes. The Medici Effect: Breakthrough Insights at the Intersection of Ideas, Concepts, and Cultures by Frans Johansson outlines how.

Johansson illustrates how the most interesting and potentially innovative ideas, inventions and product concepts occur at the intersections of conflicting, disconnected, or seemingly unrelated disciplines, thoughts, or experiences.

In many ways, innovation is about seeing the obvious in a new way. It is, to my thinking, often like looking at an optical illusion that takes one form when looked at quickly, but assumes another form when looked at differently.

Highly recommended reading for all corporate university leaders, training and development directors or anyone focused on learning.