The wide lens

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1. jbmsJul 2016
   Eat That Frog! (Brian Tracy)- Lots of useful productivity tips. Motivating and practical.

   Bleachers (John Grisham) - I learned a lot about the culture behind American Football and school/college sports.

   The Wide Lens (Ron Adner) - I learned a systematic approach towards evaluating ideas and the environment around them so that I could determine what needs to change (outside of my innovations) that must be encouraged for my ideas to succeed.

   The Martian (Andy Weir) - I got a "feel" for living on Mars being a reality potentially sooner than I appreciated.

   Brownlow North (K Moody Stuart) - A book about a Scottish Evangelist. It was superb to see where he started from in his preaching, how he differed from everyone else, and how that was probably the key to his startling effectiveness.

   Songs of the Spirit: The Place of Psalms in the Worship of God (Ed: Kenneth Stewart) - I learned an appreciation for the book of Psalms, though written long before it, it is clearly (by how it's written, what it discusses in the past tense, and what's only understood now) FOR the New Testament church.

   In my Father's House (Corrie ten Boom) - a beautiful insight into what a Christian household can look like.

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2. lumpypuaMar 2014
   Yup, new technologies not providing value to the existing ecosystem is the primary issue when it comes to adoption. There's another comment below by pshin45 that discusses how hackers have become more business savvy.

   I recently read the book The Wide Lens: A New Strategy for Innovation by Ron Adner that I think is the logical synthesis of these two lines of thought. It totally blew me away because it explains a shit-ton of real world technology adoption success and failures, particularly how innovations interact with their wider ecosystems. Further, it actually provides some examples of how to solve roadblocks by redistributing value among the various players in the ecosystem.

   http://amzn.com/B00AKQD5M4

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3. imrehgDec 2013
   The Beginning of Infinity - David Deutsch (enhanced my critical thinking)

   The Wide Lens - Ron Adner (a more complete view for developing projects, foreseeing the inevitable problems beyond your immediate reach)

   Hardboiled Wonderland and the End of the World - Haruki Murakami (just awesome)

   Snow Crash - Neal Stephenson (tomorrow's world, written the day before yesterday)

   And here's all the 40-something book I've read this year: https://www.goodreads.com/user_challenges/562634

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4. gz5Sep 2021
   In 'The Wide Lens' by Ron Adner, he uses Michelin's run-flat tire initiative (PAX) to show how brilliant innovations can fall flat (sorry, couldn't resist) if the entire ecosystem / supply chain is not enabled.

   In the case of PAX, the service stations (75% of the market is replacement) were not ready.

   Hopefully, Michelin has the full ecosystem enabled in this case, as this seems promising.

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5. imrehgMay 2013
   Just finished reading [Wide Lens][1] about innovation of ecosystems, why things can fail even if you do everything right if you ignore the ecosystems. One of their main example for the complete system, for a company which did thing right, was Better Place. I was just thinking to compare the Tesla model with Better Place. Well, I still think that the book is very insightful, just there's more to the story than it was written at that time...

   [1]: http://www.amazon.com/The-Wide-Lens-Strategy-Innovation/dp/1... "Wide Lens on Amazon"

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