INNOVATION
Where Good Ideas Come From: The Natural History of Innovation
By Steven Johnson · 336 pages
Why this title matters
Steven Johnson's study of the conditions that produce breakthrough innovation across five centuries, arguing that transformative ideas emerge from networks, slow hunches, and adjacent possibilities — not lone genius. With direct implications for how units and institutions build cultures that actually generate new thinking.
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Titles for doctrine, experimentation, technology, and the habits that help units out-think the next problem instead of reacting late.