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Companies Cannot Really See Beyond Their Current Customer Base. They Explicitly Or Implicitly Do Things To Protect Their Current Customers. And The Last Person To Want Real Change Is Your Customer. This Is Why Most New Ideas Come From Small Companies That Have Nothing To Lose.

One Of The Basics Of A Good System Of Innovation Is Diversity. In Some Ways, The Stronger The Culture (national, Institutional, Generational, Or Other), The Less Likely It Is To Harbor Innovative Thinking. Common And Deep-seated Beliefs, Widespread Norms, And Behavior And Performance Standards Are Enemies Of New Ideas. Any Society That Prides Itself On Being Harmonious And Homogeneous Is Very Unlikely To Catalyze Idiosyncratic Thinking. Suppression Of Innovation Need Not Be Overt. It Can Be Simply A Matter Of Peoples Walking Around In Tacit Agreement And Full Comfort With The Status Quo.

Scale Will Get You Strategy.

My Goal Is Not Selling Laptops. Olpc Is Not In The Laptop Business. It's In The Education Business.

In Uruguay, The President Of The Country Announced That This Would Be His Legacy, "one Laptop Per Child."