description: a manner of solving problems and generating new ideas that involves looking at the problem from a unique or different perspective
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by Thomas E. Ricks · 30 Jul 2007 · 516pp · 1,220 words
that I would do everything in my power to prevent that [sort of strategic loss] from happening again. 362 FIASCO Here I am, 30 years later, thinking we will win every fight and lose the war, because we don't understand the war we're in." One Army general predicted the Army
by Benn Steil · 14 May 2013 · 710pp · 164,527 words
deeply misguided and dangerous. His account of the development of Europe’s economy from 1870 to the start of the war was remarkable, given his later thinking on the importance of national economic planning and, in particular, monetary management, for its emphasis on the immense and widespread material benefits that sprang from
by Ozan Varol · 13 Apr 2020 · 389pp · 112,319 words
), 61. 14. Seth Godin, The Icarus Deception: How High Will You Fly? (New York: Portfolio/Penguin, 2012). 15. Shane Snow, Smartcuts: The Breakthrough Power of Lateral Thinking (New York: HarperBusiness, 2014), 180, Kindle. 16. Pascal-Emmanuel Gobry, “Facebook Investor Wants Flying Cars, Not 140 Characters,” Business Insider, July 301, 2011, www.businessinsider
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-apollo-gemini-nasa. 6. FailCon, “About FailCon,” http://thefailcon.com/about.html; FuckUp Nights, https://fuckupnights.com. 7. Shane Snow, Smartcuts: The Breakthrough Power of Lateral Thinking (New York: HarperBusiness, 2014), Kindle. 8. Gene Kranz, Failure Is Not an Option: Mission Control From Mercury to Apollo 13 and Beyond (New York: Simon
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is based on the following sources: Tim Fernholz, Rocket Billionaires: Elon Musk, Jeff Bezos, and the New Space Race (Boston: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2018); Snow, Lateral Thinking; Chris Bergin, “Falcon I Flight: Preliminary Assessment Positive for SpaceX,” Spaceflight.com, March 24, 2007, www.nasaspaceflight.com/2007/03/falcon-i-flight-preliminary-assessment
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.html; Tom Junod, “Elon Musk: Triumph of His Will,” Esquire, November 15, 2012, www.esquire.com/news-politics/a16681/elon-musk-interview-1212. 33. Snow, Lateral Thinking. 34. F. Scott Fitzgerald, Tender Is the Night (1934; repr., New York: Scribner’s, 1977). 35. Andre Agassi, Open: An Autobiography (New York: Vintage Books
by Charles Stross · 14 Jun 2006 · 443pp · 123,526 words
conversational interfaces are not only arcane, they're feeble-minded. To put one over on these professional paranoids is going to take skill, cunning, and lateral thinking. And my thinking is this: If Fiore and the Bishop Yourdon and their fellow experimenters have one weak spot, it's their dedication to the
by Josh Kaufman · 2 Feb 2011 · 624pp · 127,987 words
. 3. Coordination Paralysis—Nothing can be done without checking with a host of interconnected units. 4. Nothing New—There are no radical ideas, inventions, or lateral thinking—a general lack of initiative. 5. Pseudo-Problems—Minor issues become magnified out of all proportion. 6. Embattled Center—The center battles for consistency and
by A. M. Homes · 14 Jun 2012
. For a couple days, I practice separating the mother and her kittens by taking the kittens away and then bringing them back a few hours later—thinking it’s somehow less stressful than a sudden and permanent absence. When the day comes, I bring the plastic cat-crate up from the basement
by Carl Honore · 29 Jan 2013 · 266pp · 87,411 words
lengthwise and then tied the two halves together to give him enough length to reach the ground in one piece. But it took some creative, lateral thinking. And this is where things get interesting. Of those who imagined themselves as the prisoner, only 48 per cent solved the problem. Of those who
by Tom Clancy · 2 Jan 1996
by Walter Isaacson · 23 Oct 2011 · 915pp · 232,883 words
was time to throw away some of what he had been. Perhaps it was time to say “Bye, I have to go,” and then reemerge later, thinking differently. Exodus Andy Hertzfeld had taken a leave of absence after the Macintosh came out in 1984. He needed to recharge his batteries and get
by Edward W. Said · 29 May 1994 · 549pp · 170,495 words
by Temi Oh · 15 Mar 2019 · 486pp · 138,878 words
by John Brooks · 6 Jul 2014 · 452pp · 150,785 words
by Robert Coram · 21 Nov 2002 · 548pp · 174,644 words
by Lawrence Freedman · 31 Oct 2013 · 1,073pp · 314,528 words
by Alwyn W. Turner · 4 Sep 2013 · 1,013pp · 302,015 words
by Robert Charles Wilson · 2 Jan 2005 · 541pp · 146,445 words
by Richard Dawkins · 1 Jan 2004 · 734pp · 244,010 words
by Gardner R. Dozois · 1 Jan 2005 · 1,280pp · 384,105 words
by John Barton · 3 Jun 2019 · 904pp · 246,845 words
by Eric J. Johnson · 12 Oct 2021 · 362pp · 103,087 words
by Brian Dear · 14 Jun 2017 · 708pp · 223,211 words
by Rob Copeland · 7 Nov 2023 · 412pp · 122,655 words
by Alec Nevala-Lee · 1 Aug 2022 · 864pp · 222,565 words
by Bryan O'Sullivan, John Goerzen, Donald Stewart and Donald Bruce Stewart · 2 Dec 2008 · 1,065pp · 229,099 words
by Rosie Wilby · 26 May 2021 · 227pp · 67,264 words
by Gardner Thompson · 427pp · 114,531 words
by Mervyn King · 3 Mar 2016 · 464pp · 139,088 words
by Marcus Du Sautoy · 26 Apr 2004 · 434pp · 135,226 words
by Nick Offerman · 30 Sep 2013 · 292pp · 99,273 words
by Calum Chace · 4 Feb 2014 · 345pp · 104,404 words
by Shoshana Zuboff · 14 Apr 1988
by David Sedaris · 28 May 2018 · 201pp · 62,452 words
by Richard D. Lewis · 1 Jan 1996
by Iain M. Banks · 14 Jan 2011 · 348pp · 185,704 words
by Byron Reese · 23 Apr 2018 · 294pp · 96,661 words
by Peter Sims · 18 Apr 2011 · 207pp · 57,959 words
by Cory Doctorow · 11 May 2010 · 624pp · 180,416 words
by Justin McGuirk · 15 Feb 2014 · 246pp · 76,561 words
by Larry Collins and Dominique Lapierre · 31 Dec 1970 · 784pp · 229,648 words
by Maria Konnikova · 28 Jan 2016 · 384pp · 118,572 words
by Steven Johnson · 2 Jan 1999 · 294pp · 86,601 words
by Linda Yueh · 15 Mar 2018 · 374pp · 113,126 words
by Pierre Vernimmen, Pascal Quiry, Maurizio Dallocchio, Yann le Fur and Antonio Salvi · 16 Oct 2017 · 1,544pp · 391,691 words
by James Vlahos · 1 Mar 2019 · 392pp · 108,745 words
by Atsuo Inoue · 18 Nov 2021 · 295pp · 89,441 words
by Tripp Mickle · 2 May 2022 · 535pp · 149,752 words
by Jesse Norman · 30 Jun 2018
by Tim Mackintosh-Smith · 2 Mar 2019
by Linda Yueh · 4 Jun 2018 · 453pp · 117,893 words
by Jj Geewax · 19 Jul 2021 · 725pp · 168,262 words
by Kevin Birmingham · 16 Nov 2021 · 559pp · 155,777 words
by Rachel Clarke · 14 Sep 2017 · 255pp · 80,190 words
by Byrne Hobart and Tobias Huber · 29 Oct 2024 · 292pp · 106,826 words
by Sebastian Mallaby · 24 Apr 2006 · 605pp · 169,366 words
by Sebastian Mallaby · 1 Feb 2022 · 935pp · 197,338 words
by Charles Leadbeater · 9 Dec 2010 · 313pp · 84,312 words
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by Hubert Joly · 14 Jun 2021 · 265pp · 75,202 words
by Steven Kotler and Jamie Wheal · 21 Feb 2017 · 407pp · 90,238 words
by Joseph Jebelli · 30 Oct 2017 · 294pp · 87,429 words
by Jacob Lund Fisker · 30 Sep 2010 · 346pp · 102,625 words
by Greg McKeown · 14 Apr 2014 · 202pp · 62,199 words
by Ralph E. Warner · 2 Jan 1978
by Ruchir Sharma · 5 Jun 2016 · 566pp · 163,322 words
by Simon Winchester · 7 May 2018 · 449pp · 129,511 words
by Lloyd, John and Mitchinson, John · 7 Oct 2010 · 624pp · 104,923 words
by Andrew Marr · 16 May 2007 · 618pp · 180,430 words
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by Douglas Rushkoff · 21 Mar 2013 · 323pp · 95,939 words
by John Gribbin · 1 Mar 2012 · 287pp · 87,204 words
by David Wootton · 7 Dec 2015 · 1,197pp · 304,245 words
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by John Seely Brown and Paul Duguid · 2 Feb 2000 · 791pp · 85,159 words
by Nick Chater · 28 Mar 2018 · 263pp · 81,527 words
by Iain Gately · 6 Nov 2014 · 352pp · 104,411 words
by Tom Butler-Bowdon · 14 Oct 2007 · 363pp · 109,374 words
by Jeff Campbell · 4 Nov 2009
by Peter Warren Singer and Emerson T. Brooking · 15 Mar 2018
by Juli Berwald · 4 Apr 2022 · 495pp · 114,451 words
by William Gibson · 2 Jan 1999 · 341pp · 84,752 words
by Paul Wilmott · 3 Jan 2007 · 345pp · 86,394 words
by Stewart Brand · 15 Mar 2009 · 422pp · 113,525 words
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by Richard Watson · 1 Jan 2008
by Martin Jacques · 12 Nov 2009 · 859pp · 204,092 words
by William Gibson · 2 Jan 2003 · 385pp · 99,985 words
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by William Poundstone · 4 Jan 2012 · 260pp · 77,007 words
by Edward Luce · 20 Apr 2017 · 223pp · 58,732 words
by Linda McQuaig · 1 May 2013 · 261pp · 81,802 words
by Noam Chomsky · 1 Jan 1968
by Danielle Ofri · 3 Jun 2013 · 263pp · 78,433 words
by Jerome Groopman · 15 Jan 2007 · 292pp · 94,324 words
by Margaret Atwood · 5 May 2003
by Michael Ellsberg · 15 Jan 2011 · 362pp · 99,063 words
by Alan Cooper · 24 Feb 2004 · 193pp · 98,671 words
by Charles J. Murray · 18 Jan 1997
by Samuel Shem · 1 Jan 1978 · 436pp · 131,430 words
by Andy Bell · 12 Sep 2013 · 348pp · 82,499 words
by Tom Demarco and Timothy Lister · 2 Jan 1987 · 261pp · 16,734 words
by Frankie Boyle · 20 Jul 2022 · 286pp · 86,480 words
by David Adam · 6 Feb 2018 · 258pp · 79,503 words
by Reid Hoffman and Ben Casnocha · 14 Feb 2012 · 176pp · 55,819 words
by Jim Miotke · 9 Feb 2011
by Sara Benson · 23 May 2010 · 941pp · 237,152 words
by Nicholas Best · 9 Aug 2013 · 267pp · 81,108 words
by Dominique Mielle · 6 Sep 2021 · 195pp · 63,455 words
by Dan Richardson and Daniel Jacobs · 1 Feb 2013
by Andrew Hunt and Dave Thomas · 19 Oct 1999 · 509pp · 92,141 words
by Greg Ip · 12 Oct 2015 · 309pp · 95,495 words
by Alistair Croll and Benjamin Yoskovitz · 1 Mar 2013 · 567pp · 122,311 words
by Kim Stanley Robinson · 6 Jul 1987 · 607pp · 185,228 words
by Shane Snow · 8 Sep 2014 · 278pp · 70,416 words
by Steven Pinker · 1 Jan 1997 · 913pp · 265,787 words
by Jonathan Haidt · 13 Mar 2012 · 539pp · 139,378 words
by Arthur Herman · 8 Jan 1997 · 717pp · 196,908 words
by Jonathan Haslam · 21 Sep 2015 · 525pp · 131,496 words
by Matthew Syed · 9 Sep 2019 · 280pp · 76,638 words
by Dafydd Stuttard and Marcus Pinto · 30 Sep 2007 · 1,302pp · 289,469 words
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by David S. Landes · 14 Sep 1999 · 1,060pp · 265,296 words
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by Timothy Ferriss · 6 Dec 2016 · 669pp · 210,153 words
by David Epstein · 1 Mar 2019 · 406pp · 109,794 words
by Simon Baron-Cohen · 14 Aug 2020
by Edward Slingerland · 31 May 2021
by Penny Mordaunt and Chris Lewis · 19 May 2021 · 516pp · 116,875 words
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by Daniel Gardner · 23 Jun 2009 · 542pp · 132,010 words
by David Mitchell · 10 Oct 2012 · 335pp · 114,039 words
by Steven Kotler · 4 Mar 2014 · 330pp · 88,445 words
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by Malcolm Gladwell · 1 Jan 2005 · 264pp · 90,379 words
by Robert Clyatt · 28 Sep 2007
by Gabriel Weinberg and Lauren McCann · 17 Jun 2019
by Michael J. Benton · 14 Sep 2019
by Russell Napier · 19 Jul 2021 · 511pp · 151,359 words
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by Jo Marchant · 15 Jan 2020 · 544pp · 134,483 words
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by Tom Vanderbilt · 5 Jan 2021 · 312pp · 92,131 words
by Bee Wilson · 14 Sep 2012 · 376pp · 110,321 words
by Amal El-Mohtar and Max Gladstone · 15 Jul 2019 · 132pp · 37,391 words
by Garr Reynolds · 14 Aug 2010
by Sally Holloway · 2 Nov 2010 · 161pp · 38,039 words
by M. D. James le Fanu M. D. · 1 Jan 1999 · 564pp · 163,106 words
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by Richard Dawkins · 1 Jan 1986 · 420pp · 143,881 words
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by Matt Alt · 14 Apr 2020
by Dr. Axel Rauschmayer · 14 Apr 2020
by Mel Helitzer and Mark Shatz · 14 Sep 2005
by Richard Dawkins · 1 Jan 1976 · 365pp · 117,713 words
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