{"id":362,"date":"2012-10-31T00:29:28","date_gmt":"2012-10-31T00:29:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.poly.com\/?p=362"},"modified":"2012-10-31T00:29:28","modified_gmt":"2012-10-31T00:29:28","slug":"where-good-ideas-come-from","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.poly.com\/where-good-ideas-come-from\/","title":{"rendered":"Where Good Ideas Come From"},"content":{"rendered":"

Author Steven Johnson spoke at WorkTech 2012 in the Bay Area this year and passed on some important knowledge to all of us.\u00a0 His book Where Good Ideas Come From<\/em> talks about space, innovation, workspaces, and all the things we think about when discussing smarter working.\u00a0 It was ranked one of the year\u2019s best books by The Economist, and was a finalist for best business book of 2010 in the 800CEORead awards.\u00a0 Steven completed his undergraduate degree at Brown where he studied semiotics, and received a graduate degree in English Literature from Columbia.<\/p>\n

So where do<\/strong> good ideas come from?\u00a0 In the 2010 book Steven discusses seven conditions that allow for discoveries and inventions to occur. These conditions are split up into the chapters of the book.<\/p>\n

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