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INNOVATION

Where Good Ideas Come From: The Natural History of Innovation

By Steven Johnson · 336 pages

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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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