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...it's Easier To Hold To Your Principles 100% Of The Time Than It Is To Hold To Them 98% Of The Time.

Children Build Self-esteem By Doing Things That Are Hard And Learning What Works.

The Important Thing Is That Over Time, Scientific Progress Transforms Things That Used To Have To Be Dealt With In A Problem-solving Mode Down To The Pattern-recognition Space; And From Pattern Recognition Into The Rules-based Mode. This Is The Mechanism By Which Less-trained People Are Enabled To Do More Sophisticated Things. This Is Always The Way Disruption Happens. It Enables A Larger Population Of Less-experienced People To Do More Sophisticated Things.

By The Time It Becomes Obvious That A Technology Will Have Truly Disruptive Impact, It Is Often Too Late To Take Action. This Is One Reason Why We Are Such Advocates Of Using Theory To Try To Analyze Industry Change. Conclusive Evidence That Proves That A Company Needs To Take Action Almost Never Exists. In Fact, The Data Can Fool Management, Lulling Them Into A False Sense Of Security.

You Can Invest To Create The New Growth Business While The Core Business Is Still Growing, Because New Business Units Don't Need To Get Big Fast. But When The Core Business Stops Growing, Investing To Create New Growth Businesses Becomes Impossible.