What is *Do Bigger Things* by Dan McClure about?

*Do Bigger Things* is a practical guide to ecosystem innovation, offering strategies for reinventing systems in fast-changing markets. Co-authored by innovation expert Dan McClure, it combines decades of experience helping businesses and activists tackle challenges like obsolescence and climate change. The book emphasizes collaboration, adaptive frameworks, and actionable steps to drive impactful change in complex environments.

Who should read *Do Bigger Things*?

This book is ideal for entrepreneurs, corporate leaders, and change-makers navigating disruptive industries or systemic challenges. It’s particularly relevant for professionals in sustainability, tech, or organizational development seeking tools to innovate at scale. McClure’s insights also appeal to activists addressing societal issues like climate resilience.

Is *Do Bigger Things* worth reading?

Yes—the book balances theoretical concepts with real-world applications, making it valuable for both strategists and practitioners. Its focus on actionable frameworks, such as identifying “burning buildings” (urgent opportunities) and building adaptive teams, provides a fresh perspective on innovation beyond traditional startup methodologies.

What are the key concepts in *Do Bigger Things*?

Key ideas include: - **Ecosystem innovation**: Reinventing interconnected systems rather than isolated products. - **Choreographing change**: Leading teams through uncertainty with adaptable plans. - **Practical optimism**: Leveraging crises as catalysts for transformative solutions. McClure illustrates these with case studies from energy deregulation and climate activism.

How does *Do Bigger Things* approach innovation differently?

Unlike innovation guides focused on incremental improvements, McClure advocates for systemic reinvention. The book teaches readers to identify high-stakes opportunities (“burning buildings”) and collaborate across networks to create scalable impact, blending strategic vision with hands-on execution.

What frameworks does Dan McClure provide in *Do Bigger Things*?

The book introduces tools like: - **Opportunity mapping**: Prioritizing problems with the highest transformative potential. - **Innovation choreography**: Coordinating multidisciplinary teams in volatile markets. - **Resilience loops**: Designing solutions that adapt to evolving challenges.

How can *Do Bigger Things* help corporate innovation teams?

It offers strategies for overcoming bureaucratic inertia by fostering cross-functional collaboration and aligning innovation with long-term market shifts. Examples include redesigning business models during industry disruptions, akin to McClure’s work in energy sector deregulation.

What real-world examples are featured in *Do Bigger Things*?

Case studies span McClure’s 40-year career, such as: - Developing computer programs to streamline utility operations during regulatory chaos. - Supporting climate activists in designing scalable resilience strategies. These examples highlight translating theory into measurable outcomes.

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Capitolo 1

Breaking the Mold: How Ecosystem Innovation Transforms Our World

Imagine standing at the edge of possibility, where the next big leap in human progress awaits. Six decades ago, a single transistor was the size of a pencil eraser. Today, five billion fit on a microchip. This exponential growth isn't just about technology-it represents our expanding capacity to solve increasingly complex challenges. "Do Bigger Things" has become a phenomenon in innovation circles, with tech leaders from Google to Microsoft citing its frameworks as transformative to their approach. Even celebrities like Ashton Kutcher, known for his tech investments, have praised its practical wisdom. The book's influence extends beyond Silicon Valley into humanitarian work, where organizations tackling climate change and global poverty have adopted its methods. What makes this approach so powerful? It's the art of ecosystem innovation-assembling diverse people, organizations, and technologies into systems that can tackle our most pressing problems in ways traditional innovation cannot.

Capitolo 2

The Power of Ecosystem Innovation: A New Approach to Complex Challenges

Traditional innovation approaches are failing us in today's complex world. Thomas Edison's methodical invention process, with its systematic trial-and-error approach, and Silicon Valley's agile product design methodology, which emphasizes rapid iteration and customer feedback, worked well for their time. However, they're increasingly inadequate for the messy, interconnected challenges we face today. Climate change, persistent poverty, cybersecurity threats, and rapid industry disruption require ambitious solutions and fast action that incremental improvements simply can't deliver. Ecosystem innovation offers a fundamentally different approach. Rather than focusing on a single product or service, it builds systems of different actors and resources working together toward a common goal-like assembling Lego blocks where the world provides the pieces needed for powerful new innovations. This approach recognizes that most significant problems exist within complex systems where multiple stakeholders, technologies, and environmental factors interact in unpredictable ways. Consider Aravind Eye Care's revolutionary approach to blindness in India. With 12 million blind people in the country, mostly due to treatable conditions like cataracts, many organizations saw this as simply a funding problem. But Aravind recognized that money alone wouldn't solve the complex challenges of trained professionals, medical supplies, accessibility, and scale. Instead of piecemeal solutions, they created an entire ecosystem specifically designed to eliminate needless blindness at prices anyone could afford. Their innovative approach completely reimagined the traditional hospital model. They assign nurses most nonsurgical tasks while doctors focus exclusively on surgeries, enabling 6-8 surgeries per hour versus the standard one. They've established their own lens manufacturing facility to reduce costs, created mobile eye camps to reach remote villages, and developed partnerships with local organizations to identify patients. They've performed nearly 8 million eye surgeries with half their patients paying little or nothing, while maintaining quality equal to or better than the UK's National Health Service-at one-thousandth the cost. Another powerful example is M-PESA in Kenya, which transformed financial services for millions of unbanked people. Rather than just creating a mobile payment app, they built an entire ecosystem including local agents, telecom providers, and merchants, effectively creating a parallel banking system accessible to everyone with a mobile phone. By leveraging complexity rather than fighting it, ecosystem innovation lets you see the bigger picture, work in fast-changing environments, and spot new opportunities. Instead of playing your assigned part or making minor adjustments, you can change the rules, bypass traditional barriers, and create entirely new ways for the world to work. This approach recognizes that sustainable solutions often require restructuring entire systems rather than just fixing individual components. The key to ecosystem innovation lies in understanding the interconnections between different parts of the system and identifying leverage points where small changes can create large impacts. It requires thinking beyond traditional organizational boundaries and fostering collaboration between unlikely partners who might normally compete or operate in different spheres.

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The Five Sources of Power: Why Ecosystem Innovation Works

Ecosystem innovation provides immense capacity to solve challenges through five distinct sources of power. Airbnb exemplifies how these powers created a business bigger than the top five hotel brands combined. The first power comes from having "lots of Legos"-a vast array of building blocks including people, technology, and resources. Unlike conventional innovators who limit themselves to narrow possibilities, ecosystem innovators draw from this expansive toolkit to build powerful solutions. Airbnb succeeded by connecting people with spare rooms (frozen assets) to travelers needing accommodation, adding a platform, rating system, and other components to create value that wasn't previously available. The second power is built-in motivation. Ecosystems thrive because participants have their own reasons to act. Unlike simple systems where limited resources create win-lose scenarios, ecosystems allow different participants to pursue different rewards. When people have varied motivations, Person A gets one thing while Organization B gets another-creating win-win solutions. In Airbnb's case, travelers want safe, reasonably priced accommodations, homeowners want extra income, cleaning businesses want profit, and insurance providers want to support safety. The third power is rule-breaking. Conventional innovators remain bound to the status quo, working around the edges while leaving most of the existing ecosystem intact. Ecosystem innovation lets you throw out old rules and play an entirely new game. Airbnb changed the hotel industry's rules by not having to build or maintain physical hotels, allowing them to manage six million listings worldwide with just over six thousand employees. The fourth power is magical synergies-where the whole becomes greater than the sum of its parts. Like individual singers forming a choir that creates harmonies impossible for soloists, ecosystems generate value simply by bringing components together. Restaurants and Airbnb listings create positive feedback loops-more Airbnbs bring travelers who support restaurants, which attract more visitors, prompting more Airbnb listings. The fifth power is adaptive flexibility. For much of the twentieth century, businesses aimed to be rigid and robust to withstand change. But in today's world, no one can resist or control change. Ecosystem innovation thrives precisely because it can quickly adapt and respond. Airbnb demonstrates this flexibility by supporting both occasional bedroom renters and property investors with hundreds of units, operating in over 100,000 cities across 220+ countries, and constantly adapting to different regulations, cultures, and contexts.

Capitolo 4

The Innovation Practice Space: When to Use Different Approaches

No single innovation approach works for every challenge. Arnold Toynbee reminds us that there is no master key for every door. Despite the power of ecosystems, most organizations turn to innovation practices that seem easier and less risky, even though they deliver less real impact on what matters most. This tendency to choose familiar methods often leads organizations to miss transformative opportunities that require more sophisticated approaches. Agile product innovation, popularized by Eric Ries in "The Lean Startup," focuses on quickly exploring untested opportunities through small pilots. This method thrives on generating many ideas, creating minimum viable products, failing fast, learning from failures, and doubling down on winners. This approach worked brilliantly for companies like Rovio, which after 51 game attempts created the wildly successful Angry Birds. Spotify also exemplifies this approach, continuously experimenting with features and gathering user feedback to refine its streaming service. But this method intentionally simplifies problems, avoiding complexity by design. While effective for digital products and services, it can struggle with challenges involving physical infrastructure or complex stakeholder networks. The reductionist engineering approach excels at massive projects that can be thoroughly understood upfront and won't change significantly. This method breaks work into discrete parts with fixed specifications, controlling progress through rigid stage gates. Early automakers like Ford perfected this approach, breaking car assembly into 84 discrete steps. While this approach dramatically reduced assembly time from twelve hours to just ninety-three minutes, it stumbles badly when the world begins changing more rapidly. NASA's space programs and large infrastructure projects like bridges and dams still successfully employ this methodology, but it proves inflexible when market conditions or technologies shift unexpectedly. Optimization innovation emerged as Japanese automakers competed on quality and cost after World War II. W. Edwards Deming led this revolution at Toyota through Total Quality Management (TQM), which democratized innovation by soliciting incremental improvements from people closest to the problems. This approach harnesses Pareto's 80-20 rule to identify the highest-value changes through rigorous measurement. Companies like Canon and Samsung have successfully adopted these principles to drive continuous improvement in their manufacturing processes. However, optimization has clear limits when organizations face disruptive competitors or major industry changes-making the status quo slightly better won't save you when fundamental transformation is needed. Kodak's focus on optimizing film quality while missing the digital revolution serves as a cautionary tale. Each innovation methodology works in specific circumstances, but today's messy, high-impact opportunities sit precisely where ecosystem innovation thrives. When you face complex challenges with multiple stakeholders, changing environments, and the need for transformative solutions, ecosystem innovation provides the tools to succeed where other approaches fall short. Consider climate change initiatives, smart city development, or healthcare transformation - these challenges require coordinated innovation across multiple organizations and sectors, making ecosystem approaches increasingly vital in our interconnected world.

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Capitolo 5

The Choreographers: Leaders Who Make Ecosystem Innovation Happen

Innovation requires more than just methodology-it needs people who can lead transformative efforts. The key role in ecosystem innovation is that of the "choreographer"-someone who shapes a future vision for the ecosystem, communicates it through powerful storytelling, and leads others on a creative journey that transforms how the world works. These leaders act as conductors of complex symphonies, orchestrating diverse stakeholders toward a common goal. Consider Dr. Victor Trevino and his son during the COVID-19 pandemic. They saw that vaccines were plentiful in Laredo, Texas (70% vaccination rate) but scarce in Nuevo Laredo, Mexico (7% vaccination rate) just across the Rio Grande. Rather than accepting this disparity, they created an innovative solution using surplus Texas vaccines that would otherwise be destroyed-arranging buses to bring Nuevo Laredo residents to the international bridge where medical teams quickly administered vaccinations. By March 2022, they had provided 200,000 doses, raising Nuevo Laredo's vaccination rate to 50%. This required coordinating with multiple government agencies, healthcare providers, transportation companies, and community organizations on both sides of the border. Choreographers possess five distinct talents that set them apart: big-picture thinking to see across entire challenges and envision comprehensive solutions; crosscutting bridge-building to weave together disparate groups and resources across traditional boundaries; strategic rule-breaking to challenge the status quo while maintaining ethical principles; adaptive problem-solving to navigate uncertainty and adjust course as needed; and powerful storytelling to paint a compelling vision of a better future that motivates others to join the journey. Unlike specialists who focus deeply on established practices within narrow domains, choreographers are generalists who leverage diverse knowledge across different fields. Their "fruit salad resumes" with seemingly unrelated experiences - perhaps combining business, technology, social impact, and creative pursuits - provide them with more creative "Lego blocks" to work with. A choreographer might draw on their experience in anthropology to better understand user needs, engineering principles to design solutions, and artistic skills to communicate their vision effectively. They can nimbly move between big-picture perspectives and necessary details, understanding both forest and trees. Choreographers typically fall into two complementary types: visionary choreographers who excel at big-picture thinking, setting ambitious goals, and designing future ecosystems - like Elon Musk reimagining electric vehicles and space travel; and action hero choreographers who drive implementation, negotiate trade-offs, remove barriers, and solve real-time problems - like Jose Andres establishing World Central Kitchen to provide disaster relief through innovative food delivery systems. To succeed as a choreographer, you must be a well-intentioned disruptor who crosses boundaries and challenges established practices while maintaining strong ethical principles. Many traditional organizations value specialists who stay in their lane, but choreographers need to work horizontally across silos, building bridges between departments, organizations, and sectors. They must be courageous and independent, pushing forward without formal permission or direction in ambiguous environments, while bringing people along as stewards of future hope. Rather than relying solely on spreadsheets and data, they use persuasive storytelling to inspire others through uncertainty, painting vivid pictures of possible futures and the path to achieve them. This might involve creating compelling narratives, prototypes, or pilot projects that demonstrate the potential of their vision in tangible ways.

Capitolo 6

What It Takes to Be Successful: Three Essential Jobs

When tackling ecosystem innovation in the messiness of real-world challenges, success requires mastering three essential jobs: creating complete solutions, motivating all stakeholders, and taking creative action amid unavoidable uncertainty. The first job is creating a complete solution. Seeing the big picture of your innovation means grasping all the interconnected parts of your ecosystem. Consider Battushig, the Mongolian boy who achieved MIT-level success through online learning. His achievement wasn't just about technology-it required Mongolia's modern IT infrastructure with ubiquitous mobile networks, a community of educators including an MIT-educated principal and a Stanford PhD student, and a network of satellite classes using edX courses. Even one missing piece can be a showstopper, as seen in refugee camps where education fails without computers, electricity, and internet connectivity. The second job is making sure everyone gets a pony-ensuring all participants receive meaningful rewards for their contributions. Unlike mechanical systems, ecosystems involve people and organizations with their own motivations and expectations. Even experienced innovators at the UN identified their biggest barrier as someone telling them "no"-highlighting the critical importance of stakeholder buy-in. Rather than blaming resistors as backward-thinking, successful innovators recognize that each person has a choice about participating and requires appropriate incentives. While business innovators have historically been criticized for working in ivory towers (42% of companies don't collect customer feedback), design thinking brought welcome attention to user needs. However, focusing exclusively on primary users creates problems with complex challenges. When designing educational technology, listening only to students misses the broader ecosystem of teachers, parents, and content creators. With messy problems involving multiple stakeholders, you can't focus on just one person or concern-everyone in the ecosystem matters. The third job is taking action and adapting. When tackling complex challenges like education in refugee camps, you can't know everything upfront. You must be comfortable stepping into the fog of unknowns rather than waiting for perfect clarity. Instead of extensive analysis, set up small-scale tests with early versions of your innovation to see how participants interact. The key is adapting continuously as you learn, adding new components or changing how participants work together.

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Capitolo 7

Set an Ambitious Goal: The Foundation of Ecosystem Innovation

Bold goals drive powerful ecosystem innovations by providing fuel and direction for collaborative action. President Kennedy demonstrated this in the 1960s when he called for landing humans on the moon by decade's end-at a time when America was losing the space race to the Soviet Union. His famous speeches didn't just request funding but sparked nationwide aligned action. "We choose to go to the moon in this decade not because it is easy, but because it is hard," he declared, framing the journey as challenging but worthy. Setting ambitious goals serves multiple purposes-they inspire bold action, draw in diverse participants with varied capabilities, align collaborators toward the same destination, empower autonomous decision-making, and establish guardrails that prevent values from being lost in the creative process. Coordinating action across an ecosystem innovation requires neither complete freedom nor top-down control. Without direction, participants' energetic actions will point in different directions and fail to create coherent solutions. Conversely, top-down control stifles initiative and creativity from talented contributors. Instead, leaders should set an inspiring playing field where everyone can bring their best talents to a shared effort, like Kennedy did at NASA, where even janitors understood they were "helping put a man on the moon." The best goals for ecosystem innovation are bold, inspiring visions that pull people forcefully into the future. Jim Collins called these "Big Hairy Audacious Goals" (BHAGs)-challenges requiring both long-term building and urgent daily focus. A bakery owner, for example, might evolve from a simple profit target ("make a profitable bakery") to a flexible, inspiring goal ("be pioneers of providing joy in more parts of people's lives"). With ecosystem innovation's power to break rules comes responsibility for the future being created. Guardrails establish boundaries on what will and won't be done as the innovation evolves. Consider Uber's ethical challenges around labor practices and accessibility-these issues should be addressed upfront through clear guardrails. These might include "won't violate community standards" or "will respect data privacy." Powerful stories drive action across ecosystems. Consider Costco's organic food challenge-CEO Craig Jelinek plainly stated "We cannot get enough organics to stay in business day in and day out" despite being America's number one organic retailer. This story empowered bold solutions like financing farmers to buy equipment and land in Baja California, securing 145,000 cases of organic raspberries they wouldn't otherwise access.

Capitolo 8

From Vision to Reality: Building Your Future Ecosystem

Understanding complex challenges requires seeing beyond obvious solutions. During COVID-19, many focused on single problems-more vaccines, more doctors, faster supply chains-as the key to solving the pandemic. But reality proved more complex. Even when Chad received 100,000 Pfizer doses, only 6,000 were administered within five weeks because the ecosystem of educators, medical staff, transportation, and cold storage wasn't functioning cohesively. Building a comprehensive view of challenges allows you to claim important problems by seeing their full complexity. This approach focuses on higher-value challenges, capitalizes on difficult aspects others avoid, synthesizes diverse insights, and builds stronger support for action. Instead of targeting specific problems with quick solutions, you'll understand the interconnected systems that create opportunities for transformative innovations. To see the big picture, you need to gather diverse perspectives rather than relying solely on experts in ivory towers. This means inviting people from different fields, responsibilities, and backgrounds-especially those often excluded from discussions. The goal is to embrace complexity rather than simplify it, recognizing that "wicked problems" aren't just difficult computational challenges but require seeing interconnected systems that traditional analysis can't solve. Creating powerful solutions means avoiding the trap of fragmented innovations that lead to small, disconnected wins. Many innovators fall into "Whac-A-Mole" innovation-tackling urgent issues one by one without a cohesive vision. Instead, ecosystem innovation offers complete solutions that work in complex environments, improves adoption by understanding people's needs, circumvents barriers by redefining constraints, and amplifies impact by tapping into ecosystem synergies. For ecosystem innovations to succeed, every participant must receive value exceeding their costs. People won't adopt new innovations just because they work-they need compelling personal benefits. Each actor, whether individual, government or company, needs motivations that make sense to them. Your job is understanding these diverse motivations through conversation, ensuring everyone benefits and nobody unfairly shoulders burdens. Once you've designed a workable ecosystem, push further to make it even better. Try adding unexpected elements or removing limiting ones-like Dollar Shave Club eliminating retail stores while adding viral marketing and mail delivery. Look for emergent value and win-wins, and design feedback loops and virtuous cycles where benefits compound naturally-like Tesla's master plan of using high-end car profits to fund increasingly affordable models, creating a cycle where higher production volumes continuously lower costs and prices.

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Capitolo 9

Rising to the Challenge: Your Call to Action

Ecosystem innovation provides remarkable capabilities that allow you to solve hard problems without scaling down your ambitions. You don't need to be part of the elite club of innovators like Gates, Zuckerberg, or Jobs to make an impact. The world is filled with courageous big-picture thinkers who weave connections and forge creative paths, from social entrepreneurs in developing nations to innovative teachers transforming education in their communities. Sara Blakely's journey with Spanx demonstrates how an ordinary person with determination can build a billion-dollar company by assembling ecosystem pieces one by one. Starting as a fax machine saleswoman, she identified a gap in the market and systematically built connections with manufacturers, retailers, and customers. Without business school credentials or venture capital backing, she leveraged existing resources - from patent attorneys to production facilities - to create a revolutionary product. You don't need special connections, fancy education, or substantial wealth-just the vision to assemble the right ecosystem and the persistence to keep building. Three factors position you to make an impact through ecosystems: First, you can "punch above your weight" by assembling resources from many organizations to create solutions with impact beyond your size. Small nonprofits regularly demonstrate this by combining volunteers, corporate partnerships, and technology platforms to deliver services rivaling much larger organizations. Second, there's unprecedented global brilliance to draw from-billions of connected minds offering talents and capabilities. Hind Hobeika created swim monitoring goggles by assembling global connections for funding, design, and manufacturing from her home in Lebanon, proving that innovation can emerge from anywhere. Third, technology offers new building blocks daily, from AI to 3D printing, which can transform innovations. Medecins Sans Frontieres exemplifies this by creating prosthetics in conflict zones, combining digital scanning with remote doctors' expertise and local manufacturing capabilities. As our world grows increasingly complex, with challenges from climate change to healthcare accessibility, we urgently need people with the vision and determination to lead impactful innovations rather than making incremental steps. While problems may seem overwhelming - whether it's addressing food security or revolutionizing education - only two things can truly stop your success: not having the right tools and never trying. This book provides practical tools to do bigger things, opening the door to action through systematic approaches to ecosystem building. Consider what world you dream for, what life you want, and what legacy you wish to leave. Your actions now can affect lives for decades to come, whether through creating sustainable business models, developing innovative healthcare solutions, or building educational platforms that reach millions. The opportunities await in every sector - from renewable energy to digital inclusion - and you can choose something that matters right now. As James Clear notes, "Every action you take is a vote for the type of person you wish to become." The world is waiting for your ecosystem innovation-what will you build? Whether it's a community project or a global enterprise, the tools and connections are available to help you create lasting impact.

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Traditional innovation approaches are failing us in today's complex world.
Ecosystem innovation lets you throw out old rules and play an entirely new game.
No single innovation approach works for every challenge.

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Dan McClureCo-author and expert on ecosystem innovation
Jennifer WildeCo-author and expert on ecosystem innovation

Sull'autore

Dan McClure e Jennifer Wilde, strateghi dell'innovazione e co-autori di Do Bigger Things: A Practical Guide to Powerful Innovation in a Changing World, apportano decenni di esperienza pratica nella trasformazione delle organizzazioni e nell'affrontare sfide globali.

McClure, un esperto innovation designer con oltre 40 anni di esperienza, ha plasmato strategie aziendali agili per società Fortune 100, crisi umanitarie e iniziative per il clima.

Wilde, un'affermata innovatrice globale, ha costruito laboratori di innovazione internazionali e diretto programmi multimilionari in settori volatili.

Il loro libro fonde framework operativi con casi di studio reali, offrendo strumenti di innovazione degli ecosistemi per risolvere problemi complessi come la disruption industriale e il cambiamento sistemico.

Gli autori mantengono la loro leadership di pensiero attraverso InnovationEcosystem.com, dove condividono risorse per innovatori ambiziosi. Pubblicato da Fast Company Press — nota per amplificare l'impatto dei leader aziendali — Do Bigger Things sintetizza le loro metodologie collaudate per team aziendali, imprenditori e attivisti che cercano di guidare soluzioni scalabili in ambienti in rapida evoluzione.

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