The New New Thing by Michael Lewis
Summary
Explores innovation culture and the conditions that produce momentum, emphasizing conviction, speed, and tolerance for intelligent risk.
How it personally impacted my leadership
It influenced how I think about experimentation and scaling what works without building false confidence from perfect pilots. Especially with AI, leaders must learn quickly, test responsibly, and scale mechanisms, not anecdotes.
Leadership maturity fit
Executive
How to best absorb and apply it
- Design experiments that reflect reality, not perfect conditions.
- Build a learning loop: test, measure, refine, institutionalize.
- Separate personality-driven disruption from mechanism-driven innovation.