“The trick to having good ideas is not to sit around in glorious isolation and try to think big thoughts. The trick is to get more parts on the table.” ThinkingTryingIdeasBigsTablesTricksGloriousIsolationGood IdeasEngineeringThink Big Book:Where Good Ideas Come From Source: Where Good Ideas Come From
“Organizations that empower folks further down the chain or try to get rid of the big hierarchal chains and allow decision making to happen on a more local level end up being more adaptive and resilient because there are more minds involved in the problem.” TryingMindEndsProblemBigsHappensDecisionLevelsInvolvedOrganizationFolksLocalsChainsEmpoweringDecision MakingResilientAdaptive Author:Steven Johnson
“We are strangely biased, as individuals and media institutions, to focus on big sudden changes, whether good or bad - amazing breakthroughs, such as a new gadget that gets released, or catastrophic failures, like a plane crash.” BigsIndividualFocusMediaInstitutionsPlanesCrashBreakthroughBiasedGadgetsPlane CrashesSudden Change Author:Steven Johnson