A Polymath—the Greek word for Renaissance Man—is one who excels in many disciplines. From Leonardo da Vinci to Benjamin Franklin, we have relied on Polymaths to innovate and find creative solutions to the problems of the day. How would these Renaissance men and women manage our current technology bounty? Which disciplines would they choose to focus on? Would they work on the architecture of next-generation green cities, or focus on nanotechnology?
As our challenges have grown exponentially we need to bring together da Vinci, Franklin, and many more. The New Polymath is an enterprise that excels in multiple technologies—infotech, cleantech, healthtech, and other tech—and leverages multiple talent pools to create new medicine, new energy, and new algorithms.
Author Vinnie Mirchandani shares his varied experience as a technology adviser and market watcher to explain in business language the diversity of today's technology palette and to profile a wide range of innovations at:
Large multinationals such as GE and BP
Fast-growing, midsized companies like Cognizant and salesforce.com
The cleantech industry in China, farms in Ireland, and the back roads of Rwanda
This book categorizes eleven "building blocks" for the New Polymath to leverage in its R-E-N-A-I-S-S-A-N-C-E framework, including next-generation analytics, cloud computing, sustainability, and social networks. The author profiles over a hundred innovators and demonstrates how they use these building blocks to solve both their individual day-to-day issues and the "Grand Challenges" the world faces.
Brimming with examples from a variety of industries, countries, and business processes, the book will inspire you to groom your own New Polymath tools, processes, and ecosystem of innovation ideas.
Vinnie Mirchandani, who goes by the moniker of "Deal Architect," coaches enterprises on how to exploit disruptive technology trends. His firm has been recognized in The Black Book of Outsourcing as a top advisory boutique. He is also a prolific blogger, writing about technology-enabled innovation on his "New Florence, New Renaissance" blog and about waste in technology on his "Deal Architect" blog. Earlier in his career, he was a respected analyst at Gartner, the technology research firm, and handled numerous international assignments at PwC Consulting. He has keynoted at many business and technology conferences
and has been quoted in the Wall Street Journal, BusinessWeek, The Financial Times, CIO Magazine, and other executive and technology publications. Read more about the author, advance praise for book and excerpts from chapters at thenewpolymath.com
我必須承認,這本書的排版和設計也同樣齣色,那種紙張的質感和墨水的顔色,都透露齣一種對“工匠精神”的堅持,這與書中倡導的精神內核是高度一緻的。它不僅僅是一本理論著作,更像是一件藝術品。在內容組織上,它采取瞭一種螺鏇上升的結構,很多在前麵幾章看似未解答的疑問,會在後續的章節中以一種更為成熟和復雜的形式得到迴應和升華。這種布局安排,顯示瞭作者對讀者心智發展規律的深刻洞察。它不是急於取悅讀者,而是尊重讀者的成長麯綫。我發現自己對某些章節的理解是分階段完成的,第一次讀時可能隻領會瞭錶麵意思,第二次再翻閱時,纔恍然大悟其深層意圖。這種“延遲滿足”式的知識傳遞方式,極大地增強瞭學習的持久性和內化效果。它教會我,真正的學習需要耐心等待“頓悟”的發生。
评分這本書的敘事節奏非常獨特,它不像小說那樣跌宕起伏,更像是一場精心編排的學術研討會,在看似鬆散的章節之間,卻隱藏著嚴密的邏輯鏈條。我特彆喜歡作者處理曆史案例的方式,他總是能從一個看似無關緊要的曆史事件中,挖齣可以應用於現代睏境的深刻見解。比如,關於長期規劃與短期應變之間的平衡藝術,作者引用的那些古老智慧,在今天的商業環境中依然具有驚人的穿透力。這種古今貫通的能力,是這本書最閃光的地方之一。閱讀過程中,我需要不斷地在不同的曆史時期和知識領域之間切換,這對於提高心智的靈活性是極大的鍛煉。它不是在灌輸知識,而是在訓練你的思維“肌肉”,讓你能夠更有效地處理復雜信息流。每一次閱讀,我都能發現一些之前忽略的微妙之處,這說明作者構建的體係具有極強的多維性和可重訪性,每次迴來都有新的收獲。
评分這本書的名字聽起來就讓人充滿好奇,封麵上那種復古的字體和深邃的顔色搭配,仿佛一下子把你拉進瞭一個知識的迷宮。我拿到手的時候,第一感覺就是厚重,這不是那種輕飄飄的流行讀物,而是真正有分量的知識載體。內容上,它似乎在試圖構建一個宏大的知識體係,就像一個古代的煉金術士,試圖將看似不相關的元素熔鑄在一起,形成一種全新的理解模式。我尤其欣賞作者在闡述復雜概念時所展現齣的那種耐心和清晰度,他沒有急於給齣答案,而是引導讀者一步步去探索、去質疑。閱讀的過程中,我常常需要停下來,閤上書本,在腦海中梳理作者提齣的那些精妙的聯結,比如如何將古典哲學與現代科學的某些前沿理論進行對話。這種閱讀體驗是極其消耗腦力的,但同時也是極度充實的,仿佛我的思維被拉伸到瞭一個新的維度。它不是那種讀完就能立刻拿來炫耀的“速食”知識,而更像是一場需要時間沉澱的思維漫步,關於如何成為一個真正全能的學習者,這本書提供瞭一個極具啓發性的路綫圖,雖然具體路徑還需我們自己去拓荒。
评分這本書真正讓我感到震撼的,是它對“學習的本質”這一宏大命題所提齣的全新視角。它挑戰瞭我們習以為常的專業化傾嚮,轉而歌頌一種更具包容性的認知模式。作者在論述過程中,頻繁使用類比和隱喻,但這些修辭手法絕非故弄玄虛,而是為瞭搭建認知橋梁,幫助讀者跨越不同知識領域的鴻溝。我感覺自己仿佛在接受一位博學導師的私人輔導,他不僅學富五車,更重要的是,他懂得如何將這些知識有效地傳遞給你,激發你內在的好奇心。這種體驗是極其振奮的,它讓我重新燃起瞭對未知世界的探索熱情,不再滿足於淺嘗輒止的瞭解。這本書的價值在於,它提供瞭一種看待世界和組織知識的全新“操作係統”,一套能夠應對未來不確定性的強大工具集,是值得反復研讀的案頭必備之作。
评分坦白說,這本書的閱讀門檻不低,初翻幾頁時,我甚至有些氣餒,覺得這可能超齣瞭我的知識儲備範圍。作者的語言風格是那種非常古典和嚴謹的,充滿瞭對細節的極緻追求,每一個段落都像是一塊精心雕琢的寶石,密度極高。我印象最深的是其中關於“跨學科思維模型”的構建部分,它不是簡單地羅列不同領域的知識點,而是深入探討瞭不同學科底層邏輯的相似性與差異性,試圖提煉齣一種普適性的認知框架。這種對底層結構的關注,使得整本書充滿瞭學理上的深度。我感覺自己像是在攀登一座知識的高塔,每嚮上一步,視野就開闊一分,但腳下的路也越發崎嶇。它要求讀者不僅要有廣度,更要有能深入挖掘的韌性。這種深度閱讀的體驗,讓我開始反思自己過去碎片化的學習習慣,這本書像是一麵鏡子,照齣瞭我在知識結構上的那些薄弱環節,促使我去尋找更堅實的支點。
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