The Voltage Effect¶
List, J. A. (2022). The Voltage Effect: How to Make Good Ideas Great and Great Ideas Scale. Crown.
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Primes¶
- Training Serving Skew
- Military and emergency-response training: a unit drilled on a standardised exercise deployed to an operation where terrain, opposition, and timing differ, so drill-effective tactics fail in the field. Education and assessment: students prepared under one assessment regime (structured tests) deployed into a different one (open-ended workplace problems), where prep-regime skills underperform. Pilot programmes and policy rollouts: an intervention piloted under motivated early adopters and intensive support, scaled to a population that differs systematically, with effects that shrink or invert.
This sourceDocuments 'voltage drop' — pilot-program effects that shrink or vanish at scale when the scaled population differs systematically from the pilot's (false positives, non-representative samples, implementation dilution).
- Military and emergency-response training: a unit drilled on a standardised exercise deployed to an operation where terrain, opposition, and timing differ, so drill-effective tactics fail in the field. Education and assessment: students prepared under one assessment regime (structured tests) deployed into a different one (open-ended workplace problems), where prep-regime skills underperform. Pilot programmes and policy rollouts: an intervention piloted under motivated early adopters and intensive support, scaled to a population that differs systematically, with effects that shrink or invert.
Mechanisms¶
- Staged Policy Trial
- Its deep failure mode is the voltage effect
This sourceDefines “voltage” as an idea’s ability to retain its effect when replicated at scale, with “voltage drops” marking failures of scalability.
- Its deep failure mode is the voltage effect
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