The Medici Effect

Increased creativity and innovation occurs through diversity and intersectionality


Breakthrough ideas are most often born at the intersection of disciplines & cultures / when we bring concepts from one field into a new, unfamiliar territory


Many world-changing insights come from people with little or no related experience

  • Charles Darwin was a geologist when he proposed the theory of evolution.
  • It was an astronomer who finally explained what happened to the dinosaurs.
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