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Loonshots
Safi Bahcall
How to Nurture the Crazy Ideas That Win Wars, Cure Diseases, and Transform Industries
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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.
About the author
Safi Bahcall is a physicist and bioentrepreneur. He received his PhD from Stanford in 1995 and continued his academic career at UC Berkeley as a Miller Fellow in physics. After a three-year stint at the consultancy firm McKinsey, he cofounded Synta Pharmaceuticals, a biotech company specializing in the development of new drugs to treat cancer. Loonshots, Bahcall’s first book, has been heralded a a must-read title by the Washington Post, Inc and Business Insider.
Who might enjoy this content?
- 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
