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Loonshots: Book notes
- Authors
- Name
- Carlos Baraza
- @carlosbaraza
- Bio
- I write software and other philosophical stuff.
These are some of my notes on this interesting book, with interesting ideas on how to create a flourishing innovation driven organisation.
- Nurture innovation separating soldiers and research
- Nokia failed to develop the iPhone because it was refused by management
- Big organisations become risk averse and employees have low stakes. They become soldiers and franchise operators.
- Startup employees have high stakes and win big. Innovators and risk taking.
- Radar was proposed to Navy multiple times before WWII, and they refused funding
- Have a context structure with multiple stakeholders that could give the idea a shot
- Kepler discovery of solar system happened in China but there was a single studio in town, the empire rulers. In Europe there were many small states willing to give scientific revolution a try.
- Leaders could think they are holy heroes and hold the keys to the research lab, not letting some ideas flourish
- Polaroid didn’t research digital cameras