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Average New York City metropolitan area house prices are up 706% since 1980 (or 376% more than US consumer prices, and 326% more than US wages). The price of housing in major cities has, over the past few decades, far outpaced the cost of construction. Originally published in 1970, this updated edition includes a foreword from Ben Reinhardt that contextualizes the lessons Pieces of the Action can offer to contemporary readers: that change depends both on heroic individuals and effective organizations that a leader’s job is one of coordination and that the path from idea to innovation is a long and winding one, inextricably bound to those involved-those enduring figures who have a piece of the action.

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Pieces of the Action offers his hard-won lessons on how to operate and manage effectively within complex organizations, build bridges between people and disciplines, and drive ambitious, unprecedented programs to fruition. As the architect and administrator of an R&D pipeline that efficiently coordinated the work of civilian scientists and the military during World War II, he was central to catalyzing the development of radar and the proximity fuze, the mass production of penicillin, and the initiation of the Manhattan Project. In Pieces of the Action, Vannevar Bush-engineer, inventor, educator, and public face of government-funded science-offers an inside account of one of the most innovative research and development ecosystems of the 20th century.