Who recommended Loonshots?

17 people have recommended Loonshots in the interviews, articles and reading lists we track, including Bill Gates, Tim Ferriss, Adam Grant and Keith Rabois. Each name links to their full reading list.

Is Loonshots worth reading?

17 people we track recommend it. It is best for: A middle manager inside a large, process-heavy corporation who keeps watching promising proposals get bogged down by committees and wants language to pinpoint what's broken.; A startup founder trying to shield a moonshot product idea from premature demands for scalability and predictable revenue, needing a mental model to argue for protection.; A product lead in a fast-growing tech company who senses the innovation pipeline is drying up as teams optimize for short-term metrics, and wants a way to redesign team interactions.. It may not suit: If you're craving step-by-step instructions, you'll feel lost: the book diagnoses problems but rarely offers concrete how-to steps, so you'll likely put it down when you realize there's no ready-to-use toolkit.; If jargon and extended scientific metaphors annoy you, the constant references to phase transitions, energy landscapes, and electron states will grate by chapter three.; If you're well-read in innovation literature, you'll likely bounce off once the physics metaphor feels like a repackaging of familiar disruptor dilemmas, and you'll put the book down when no new empirical rigor emerges..

What books are like Loonshots?

Readers of Loonshots also turn to The Hard Thing About Hard Things, Principles and The Ride of a Lifetime, based on the lists and recommenders these books share.

Loonshots by Safi Bahcall: Recommended by 17 People

Name: Loonshots
Author: Safi Bahcall
ISBN: 9781250185976

* Instant WSJ bestseller * Translated into 18 languages * #1 Most Recommended Book of the year (Bloomberg annual survey of CEOs and entrepreneurs) * An Amazon, Bloomberg, Financial Times, Forbes, Inc., Newsweek, Strategy + Business, Tech Crunch, Washington Post Best Business Book of the year * Recommended by Bill Gates, Daniel Kahneman, Malcolm Gladwell, Dan Pink, Adam Grant, Susan Cain, Sid Mukherjee, Tim Ferriss Why do good teams kill great ideas? Loonshots reveals a surprising new way of thinking about the mysteries of group behavior that challenges everything we thought we knew about nurturing radical breakthroughs. Bahcall, a physicist and entrepreneur, shows why teams, companies, or…