Companies Do Not Do New Things Because

There's A Simple, But Oft-neglected Lesson Here: To Sustain Success, You Have To Be Willing To Abandon Things That Are No Longer Successful.

Somewhere Out There Is A Bullet With Your Company's Name On It. Somewhere Out There Is A Competitor, Unborn And Unknown, That Will Render Your Strategy Obsolete. You Can't Dodge The Bullet – You're Going To Have To Shoot First. You're Going To Have To Out-innovate The Innovators.

The Problem Is Not One Of Prediction. It Is One Of Imagination.

In An Ideal World, An Individual's Institutional Power Would Be Correlated Perfectly With His Or Her Value-add. In Practice, This Is Seldom The Case.

One Doesn't Have To Be A Marxist To Be Awed By The Scale And Success Of Early-20th-cent Ury Efforts To Transform Strong-willed Human Beings Into Docile Employees.