Two thoughts popped into my head when I was barely into Borrowing Brilliance by David Kord Murray.
This is what I was trying to say
When I started this blog I imagined that we each needed to find a way to bring together the different perspectives of our proverbial blind men in order to define the elephant in a way that let us actually solve a problem.
I imagined that we wouldn’t always know it was going to be an elephant beforehand, just that it was going to be something.
I expected that there could be a way to develop the skills to do this and a process to follow to improve success.
There is a process. And Murray just wrote about it.
His description of innovation resonated that strongly with me.
I have to read The Medici Effect now
Murray’s talk of borrowing and cross-fertilization of ideas reminded me of another book on my shelf, one all about ideas coming together to create something new. One I hadn’t actually read yet.
The instant I finished Borrowing Brilliance I started reading The Medici Effect by Frans Johansson.
And I was rewarded by complementary insights that meshed into Murray’s steps two and three.
Not a Review Post Yet
I can’t really review either book yet because I was going through them so fast that all I was left with was impressions of the scenery.
About all I can say is both were structured well and had readable writing styles. Murray’s was more personal in approach, though, and had more story to it, which was used effectively to support the content.
It’s time for the walking tour now. These are the next two books that I’ll be covering in depth.
If you want to get the postcard first, both books have websites with book summaries, a little supllementary data, and blogs, though Johansson’s is more personal.
