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Catalysts can help to transform a situation faster, but the ingredients for that change must already exist. A catalyst then can’t solve for inadequate preparation or misjudging the broader context.
Another challenge with catalysts is that while theoretically, they do not become reactants, they often will impact on a change, particularly in business and life applications. This needs to be considered when removing catalysts, which might not just slow a change process down, but transform the nature of what is happening.
Examples of economic Catalysts as a business model
The multi-sided platform strategy as described above is best represented by companies such as eBay, Uber and Airbnb. By nature, the development of these businesses often disrupts existing business models. They tend to represent some of the fastest-growing and largest businesses over the last decade.
Social movements.
Many social movements have had a catalyst, a particular event that triggers broader social protests and change. In 1955 when Rosa Parks refused to give her front-row seat up for a white passenger it led to her arrest. This led to a bus boycott and was the ‘spark’ or catalyst for a broader civil rights movement. In more recent times, the tragic killing of George Flloyd by a white police officer was the catalyst for the Black Lives Matter movement to gain mainstream coverage and impact.
Catalytic converters in your car.
There are many chemistry examples of catalysts. Perhaps one that will be most familiar is how vehicles use catalytic converters to reduce toxic gases and pollutants in exhaust gas from combustion engines into less-toxic pollutants by catalyzing a redox reaction.
Catalysts as a mental model can apply to a broad range of domains that relate to change.
Use the following examples of connected and complementary models to weave catalysts into your broader latticework of mental models. Alternatively, discover your own connections by exploring the category list above.
Connected models:
- Activation energy: intrinsically tied to the conversation of catalysts.
- The scientific method: as a broader framework and backdrop to the field.
- Butterfly effect: a different model that has some conceptual similarities.
- Leverage: again, different, but similar in that it aims to create a bigger impact from a smaller action.
- Critical mass: as the point at which change happens.
Complementary models:
- Systems vs goals: catalysts can provide a critique of the ‘slow steady’ approach of systems.
- Inversion: consider what might act as a catalyst for change by asking what would prevent it.
- Overton window: events can act as catalysts to shift the Overton window.
The concept of a catalyst can be traced back to Ancient Greece, though the term itself was first used by Scottish chemist Elizabeth Fulhame in her 1794 publication of An Essay on Combustion. See more about her story in this Physics Today article.
See David Evans, Catalyst Code: The Strategies Behind the Most Dynamic Companies for an exploration of economic catalysts.
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