Loonshots

Physicist and entrepreneur Safi Bahcall asks why good teams kill great ideas, and how groups can nurture the radical ideas he calls loonshots. Drawing on the science of phase transitions, Bahcall argues that organizations shift suddenly from embracing new ideas to rejecting them, much as water turns to ice, and that small changes in structure, rather than culture, control this shift. He illustrates the point with stories from history, business and science, and offers practical lessons for leaders.

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