Decide What You Stand For. And Then

If A Company Truly Wants To Resolve The Innovator's Dilemma, It Does Need To Be Able To Create Wave After Wave Of Disruptive Innovation. And Those Disruptive Innovations Will Typically Grow To The Point Where They Do Cause Some Pain For Leading Companies. But Most Disruptive Innovations Create Substantial New Growth Before They Cause That Pain.

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Doing Deals Doesn't Yield The Deep Rewards That Come From Building Up People.

Watching How Customers Actually Use A Product Provides Much More Reliable Information Than Can Be Gleaned From A Verbal Interview Or A Focus Group.

Steve Jobs And Apple Taught Us That Profit Is Not The Ultimate Goal, But Rather A Consequence Of Something Greater.