Because Of The Disruption Phenomenon - Technological

When The Functionality Of A Product Or Service Overshoots What Customers Can Use, It Changes The Way Companies Have To Compete. When The Product Isn't Yet Good Enough, The Way You Compete Is By Making Better Products. In Order To Make Better Products, The Architecture Of The Product Has To Be Interdependent And Proprietary In Character.

One Quarter Of Medicare Beneficiaries Have Five Or More Chronic Conditions, Sees An Average Of 13 Physicians Each Year, And Fills 50 Prescriptions Per Year.

How Could Digital's Collapse Be So Precipitous? It's Because, In Many Ways, Financial Performance Data Is Misleading. As You Move Up To The Top Of The Market, You're Getting Rid Of The Less Profitable Products At The Low End And Adding Business With More Attractive Margins At The High End. The Rate Of Unit Volume Growth Might Be Tapering Off As You Pursue These Smaller Markets, But Your Margins Actually Look Better. So Wall Street Rewards Your Stock Price Until You Hit The Ceiling.

Year After Year After Year, People Write Books About Managing Innovation Or About Leadership, For Example, Without Ever Going Through The Pain Of Saying, "this Kind Of Leadership Will Cause This Result In These Circumstances And A Very Different Result In Those Circumstances." This Is Academic Malpractice Of The Worst Kind.

Because If The Decisions You Make About Where You Invest Your Blood, Sweat, And Tears Are Not Consistent With The Person You Aspire To Be, You’ll Never Become That Person.