The author of The New Pioneers, Thomas Petzinger Jr., has a similar view about where advances originate. But his aim is to explain how a chaotic proliferation of seemingly inconsequential events has produced amazingly efficient new business models.
Discovery is in.
It all makes sense. And Petzinger buttresses his arguments with vivid tales culled from his Wall Street Journal columns. The only problem with the book is that the author's frequent academic intrusions into the narrative can be overblown. Such as when he explains the success of Avedis Zlidjian Co., founded in 1623 in Constantinople, now of Quincy, Mass., and the world's largest maker of cymbals. The current Avedis, Armand, is evidently a tonal genius.