Frans Johansson
The Medici Effect: What Elephants and Epidemics Can Teach Us About Innovation Frans Johansson Harvard Business Review Press (March 2017) “If you want to go fast, go alone. If you want to go far, go together.” African proverb This is…
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In The Medici Effect, Frans Johansson explains how and why breakthrough creativity happens at the Intersection of different fields, ideas, people, and cultures. This is a revised, updated, and expanded edition of a book first published in 2004, with a…
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In the Foreword to the revised and updated edition of Frans Johansson’s classic, The Medici Effect, Teresa Amiable discusses the concept of “intersectional creativity,” a process of collaboration that is ecumenical, multidisciplinary, multifunctional, and most important of all, open. Throughout…
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Maximize Your Potential: Grow Your Expertise, Take Bold Risks & Build an Incredible Career Jocelyn Glei, Editor Amazon Publishing (2013) Are you a prospective Free Radical? “Potential” means “you ain’t done it yet.” Darrell Royal Jocelyn Glei edited this volume…
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The Click Moment: Seizing Opportunity in an Unpredictable World Frans Johansson Portfolio/Penguin (2012) Why we are determined to explain random success, especially when it is inexplicable In an earlier book, The Medici Effect, Frans Johansson explains that this book is…
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In his latest book, Ken Robinson observes in Chapter 7 that being creative is not only about thinking; it is also about feeling. For example, “Among the legacies of the Enlightenment and Romanticism are many common-sense but mistaken assumptions about the differences between the arts…
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I read Michael Michalko’s first book, Cracking Creativity: The Secrets of Creative Genius, when it was published in 1998 by Ten Speed Press. According to Michalko, how best to “crack the barriers to human creativity”? Here are his suggestions, accompanied by my annotations. o…
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According to Frans Johansson, “When you step into an intersection of fields, disciplines, or cultures, you can combine existing concepts into a large number of extraordinary new ideas. The name I have give this phenomenon, the Medici Effect, comes from a remarkable burst of creativity in fifteenth-century Italy.”…
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Three Distinct Forces Behind the Rise of Creative Intersections
In The Medici Effect, Frans Johansson explains how and why breakthrough creativity happens at the Intersection of different fields, ideas, people, and cultures. This is a revised, updated, and expanded edition of a book first published in 2004, with a…
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