Why do so many world-changing insights come from people with
little or no related experience? Charles Darwin was a geologist
when he proposed the theory of evolution. And it was an astronomer
who finally explained what happened to the dinosaurs.
Frans Johansson’s The Medici Effect shows how breakthrough ideas
most often occur when we bring concepts from one field into a new,
unfamiliar territory, and offers examples how we can turn the ideas
we discover into path-breaking innovations.
Frans Johansson knows about intersections. He was raised in
Sweden by his African-AmericanCherokee mother and Swedish father.
After majoring in environmental science at Brown University he went
on to attend Harvard Business School. He was a founder and former
CEO of Inka.net, a Boston-based enterprise software company, and VP
of Business Development of Dola Health Systems, a health care
company in Baltimore and Sweden.