{ "item_title" : "What's the Because?", "item_author" : [" Mark Peter Bjornsgaard "], "item_description" : "75% of startups fail. Fewer than 6% of corporate leaders are happy with their innovation. And everyone has decided this is just... fine.We've been told failure is the price of admission. A badge of honour. That the brave move is to fail fast, fail forward, and fall in love with being wrong.What a stupid thing to normalise.Failure isn't your friend. It's a cost.What's the Because? argues something the entrepreneurial world doesn't want to hear: most failure is preventable. Not bad luck. Not bad timing. Not a heartless market. It's a self-inflicted wound - the direct result of skipping the one question that would have saved you.Why would anyone actually need the thing you're building?That's the Because. And almost nobody asks it before they've spent the money, hired the team, signed the lease and told everyone they're building something exciting.Here's the uncomfortable truth at the heart of this book. Every other high-stakes field - aviation, medicine, engineering, drug discovery - long ago tamed uncertainty with a single tool: the scientific method. Ask a question. Isolate a variable. Follow the evidence. Innovation is the only domain that still refuses to use it, preferring to worship crazy ideas and lionise people for winging it.Because ideas are a drug.Fast, flattering, hardwired into your brain, they hand you a solution before you've earned the right to one - then make you defend it long after the data has told you to walk away.What's the Because? is the antidote. Part manifesto, part manual, it's a four-week, how-to programme for retraining your brain to default to science instead of ideas. You'll learn to: Dismantle any idea into a single, testable hypothesis - Because... Someone... Will...Design the smallest experiment that could embarrass it (not prove it)Kill what won't work cheaply, protecting your money, time and energy for what willReprice failure - make it small, make it useful, keep it nowhere near the point where it becomes existentialScientists don't romanticise failure. They understand its cost - so they design the process to learn as much as possible before the expensive version arrives. Entrepreneurs can do the same. We just refuse to.And if you run innovation inside a big organisation, there's a release waiting here too. You don't need more labs, more hackathons, or a team pretending to be a startup. You need a process that produces evidence - and the nerve to use it.This is a serious method with a ridiculous sense of humour. Written by an entrepreneur who used it to build and sell real companies - including a data-centre business that attracted a $15 billion offer and briefly rewired the economics of computing - it will make you laugh while quietly dismantling almost everything you believe about how businesses get built.By the end, you won't just understand the method.You'll be unable to work any other way - and amazed you ever thought differently.Stop shipping ideas. Start interrogating value.", "item_img_path" : "https://covers3.booksamillion.com/covers/bam/9/79/818/355/9798183551198_b.jpg", "price_data" : { "retail_price" : "19.84", "online_price" : "19.84", "our_price" : "19.84", "club_price" : "19.84", "savings_pct" : "0", "savings_amt" : "0.00", "club_savings_pct" : "0", "club_savings_amt" : "0.00", "discount_pct" : "10", "store_price" : "" } }

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