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“When groups are small, for example, everyone’s stake in the outcome of the group project is high. At a small biotech, if the drug works, everyone will be a hero and a millionaire. If it fails, everyone will be looking for a job. The perks of rank—job titles or the increase in salary from being promoted—are small compared to those high stakes. As teams and companies grow larger, the stakes in outcome decrease while the perks of rank increase. When the two cross, the system snaps. Incentives begin encouraging behavior no one wants. Those same groups—with the same people—begin rejecting loonshots.”
― Loonshots: How to Nurture the Crazy Ideas That Win Wars, Cure Diseases, and Transform Industries
― Loonshots: How to Nurture the Crazy Ideas That Win Wars, Cure Diseases, and Transform Industries
“While the individual man is an insoluble puzzle, in the aggregate he becomes a mathematical certainty.”
― Loonshots: How to Nurture the Crazy Ideas That Win Wars, Cure Diseases, and Transform Industries
― Loonshots: How to Nurture the Crazy Ideas That Win Wars, Cure Diseases, and Transform Industries
“Bush wrote, he learned “how not to fight a war.” In the high-stakes competition between weapons and counterweapons, the weak link was not the supply of new ideas. It was the transfer of those ideas to the field. Transfer requires trust and respect on both sides.”
― Loonshots: How to Nurture the Crazy Ideas That Win Wars, Cure Diseases, and Transform Industries
― Loonshots: How to Nurture the Crazy Ideas That Win Wars, Cure Diseases, and Transform Industries
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