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Chapter Overview
Chapter 1: AudiobookHub Recommendation
Chapter 2: Innovation is a crucial part of organizational success, and it must indeed be meticulously nurtured.
Chapter 3: The US military entered World War II unprepared due to its failure to support innovation.
Chapter 4: Vannevar Bush built a structure that nurtured innovation and helped swing the war to the Allies’ side.
Chapter 5: Loonshots not only win wars; they also transform business too.
Chapter 6: The Bush-Vail Rules offer a blueprint to sustainably balance franchising and innovation.
Chapter 7: Purely product-led innovation can place companies in hot water when the market shifts suddenly.
Chapter 8: Leaders who refuse to take a backseat risk steering their organizations into blind alleys.
Chapter 9: The West’s rapid development was driven by the ultimate loonshot: namely the Scientific Revolution itself.
Description
Loonshots (2019) explores a subject that’s as important to the success of the US military as it is to companies duking it out on the metaphorical battlefield: innovation. Drawing on a host of illuminating historical examples, Safi Bahcall shows that path-breaking discoveries and inventions aren’t the product of isolated geniuses plowing their lonely furrows but rather a result of organizational structures which foster out-of-the-box thinking.
Who Should Listen
- Tinkerers with an idea so crazy it might just work
- Managers struggling to keep their companies ahead of the curve
- Anyone who’s ever wondered how the Allies won World War Two