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Loonshots: How to Nurture the Crazy Ideas That Win Wars, Cure Diseases, and Transform Industries

Safi Bahcall

Why do promising ideas die inside capable organizations? Safi Bahcall connects medicine, wartime research, and business to show how protected experiments, operational teams, and incentives can work together.

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11 parts, about 26 minutes to read.

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Safi Bahcall
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11 parts
Reading time
about 26 minutes
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What the summary covers

  1. When good teams reject good ideas2 min
  2. Separate the phases, then connect them3 min
  3. Learn from a false failure3 min
  4. Watch the strategic blind side3 min
  5. A technology triumph can still be the wrong bet2 min
  6. Manage decisions, not chosen projects3 min
  7. See what changes when a group changes2 min
  8. Move the threshold by changing incentives2 min
  9. Design the organization around the work3 min
  10. Build a nursery, not just an idea2 min
  11. Test a contrarian idea while its future is unknown1 min

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