The Local Maximum challenge impacts businesses and individuals alike in many ways, often limiting their growth and development.
Computer scientists turn the delivery route problem into mountains by mapping it topographically.
Amazon Prime's profit is related to the speed of its deliveries, making the process of planning delivery routes crucial.
A star striker in an English football team may limit their play and their own development when all the other players are centered around him/her.
Raising short-term revenues by sacrificing part of the unique brand and potentially alienating the original community of supporters is a challenge faced by the CEO of a successful start-up.
Infrastructure upgrades involving expensive 5G investments need balancing huge potential without getting stuck with a huge “sunk cost”.
Understand the concept of Local Maximum to identify and limit its negative impacts in personal and professional lives.
Most decisions include an element of Local Maximum, and more complex the decision, the stronger the effects and dangers.
The concept of Local Maximum offers new ways of thinking about human challenges and helps to navigate through them effectively.
Judah Taub’s work with start-ups and life experiences with Local Maximums have enabled him to understand the subject and write a book on it.