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Smartcuts
272 pages, 2016
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Serial entrepreneur Shane Snow shares the stories of innovators who disrupted the world using lateral thinking, including art, science, business, psychology and more. These innovators bucked convention to achieve amazing results in short time frames. Smartcuts reveals how we can use these “smartcuts” to rethink convention and speed up success. In every era, innovators from art to science to business have used what psychologists call “lateral thinking. ” Snow shows how they found better routes to stunning accomplishments. Smartcuts shatters common wisdom about success, revealing why it’s easier to build a huge business than a small one and how kids shouldn’t learn multiplication tables.


