Thoughts / Alankar Chaturvedi
Ideas about what makes progress possible.
Essays on companies, cities, innovation, ambition, progress, and human nature.
Featured essay·Cities
Creative Gravity
Why a handful of cities repeatedly become places where talented people find one another, raise the standard, and make more ambitious work possible.
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- Innovation
The Outsider’s Advantage
Outsiders can notice habits that insiders no longer see, but the useful kind of outsider is curious enough to question the rules and disciplined enough to learn why they existed.
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When the Impossible Becomes Urgent
A crisis often reveals that an institution had more speed, flexibility, and decision-making capacity than its normal routines allowed it to use.
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