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Strategic Intuition: The Creative Spark in Human Achievement resources

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Preface This book is the fi rst full treatment of an idea I discovered some ten years ago. At that time I was one of many scholars applying our research expertise to the problem of economic development in poor countries. It began to dawn on me that my fellow experts had elaborate methods for analysis and planning that ignored or even contradicted the existing sources on how creative achievement really happens. Over time my informal inquiry into these sources turned into a more formal study that in turn led to this book. In my inquiry, three authors stood out right away: Thomas Kuhn on scientifi c revolutions, Joseph Schumpeter on entrepre- neurial leaps of progress, and Carl von Clausewitz on military strategy. It struck me that all three described similar mechanisms for creative advance in their fi elds. The implications of this simi- larity seemed enormous to me for other fi elds too, including my own. All three scholars had independently arrived at a universal description of the structure of human achievement. Once I saw this common thread, I set out to translate it into practical concepts that fi elds beyond science, entrepreneurship, 40962 Ch00 FM i-xiv r4.indd ix 40962 Ch00 FM i-xiv r4.indd ix 8/10/07 12:00:23 PM8/10/07 12:00:23 PM

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