The Medici Effect: What Elephants and Epidemics Can Teach Us About

Innovation

Presented BY :

Ahmad Shalabi

The Idea

• The idea behind this book is simple: 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 Intersection””Your Best Chance to Innovate

• Two kinds of innovation: directional and intersectional

• Intersectional innovations happen in the Intersection

The Rise of Intersections

• The movement of people

• The convergence of science

• The leap of computation

Creating the Medici Effect

• Break Down the Barriers Between Fields

• What is associative barrier?

How to Make the Barriers Fall ?

• How to Make the Barriers Fall ?

• Diversity !!

• learn differently, and see from multiple perspectives.

Randomly Combine Concepts

• Different concepts And :

• Randomness .

• luck is an important factor

Find the Combinations

• Diversifying occupations.

• Interacting with diverse groups of people.

• Introducing randomness into your thinking pattern.

Ignite an Explosion of Ideas

• The best way to get a good idea is to have a lot of ideas.

• Scientists, artists, and writers with the best ideas are those who produce the most ideas.

How to Capture the Explosion?

• Understanding of the fields.

• Generate many ideas. (brainstorming)

• Evaluating the ideas.

Making Intersectional Ideas Happen

• Execute Past Your Failures ( Difficult Part )

• Be ready to change your execution plan

• Break Out of Your Network

• Stop relying on them

• Take Risks and Overcome Fear (don’t try to minimize risk!!)

• Acknowledging your fear

Step into the Intersection . . .

• If you want to help create the future, find your way to the Intersection.