The Art of Innovation
summary
Claims that innovators are only 2.5% of a system and that adoption accelerates after 10–20% critical mass; cites Carnegie Institute that technical skill explains 15% of financial success while 85% is human skill. Uses Moneyball and a disaster recovery test that reveals zero usable backups as concrete failures, shows gradual wins like staged CI/CD rollouts reaching four releases/week, and warns Gartner’s 90% microservices failure prediction as a reality check.
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chapters (7)
- 0:00Introduction and innovator traits
- 7:31Leading change beyond innovators
- 16:46Diffusion of innovations explained
- 31:35Packaging for adoption and J-curve
- 41:51Five attributes of innovation
- 51:25Optimizing trialability and change
- 59:13Long game of change agents
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