Overall 5 Stars of out 5: *****
I listened to this book on Audible.
This book does a great job of thoroughly walking you through various significant innovations in history and examining how companies over the centuries have innovated in different ways. I was surprised with how some of the most famous innovations in the past couple of centuries took so long and had some pretty strong elements of luck to come about. Though the book does a good job of providing what it promises, some tools to help you build innovation in your organization, it delivers a delightfully surprising amount of historical context and insights into innovations like the penicillin vaccine, Einstein’s revelations, and the modern computer.
It provides a great high-level view of the four major types of Innovation (as presented in the book) combined with a detailed look at specific examples to make the book feel real and accurate with its recommendations. A couple of chapters do get a bit long-winded, with respect to research near the end, and the last chapter is a bit hard to digest as it gets less tangible and more centered around high level future recommendations.
The narrator is excellent at making the book easy to consume even though it is heavy with appropriate jargon and a bit repetitive on some examples.
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