Justification For Infidelity And Dishonesty In All

Quite Often Startups Were First Out Of The Gate With A Sustaining Technology. But Somehow The Leaders Got The Technology And Stayed Atop Their Industries. Sometimes They Acquired The Startup; Sometimes They Just Developed The Technology As A Follower And Used Their Muscle And Mass To Win. But They Always Won.

One Of The Factors That Make Great Companies So Great Is That They Have Processes That Allow Them To Solve Difficult Problems Again And Again. These Processes Have Developed Over Time As Teams Have Successfully Wrestled With A Certain Type Of Challenge. Eventually, People Begin To Say, "this Is Just How We Do Something Around Here." The Problem Develops When That Team Then Has To Solve A Very Different Set Of Challenges. The Processes That Are Such Strengths Can Be Crushing Liabilities.

One Reason There Are So Many Short-lived Management Fads Is That Their Prescriptions Were Derived And Advocated In Precisely This Way. So Managers Read About A Fad And Try It, Find That It Doesn't Work, Abandon The Effort, And Move On To The Next Thing. In Reality, It Is Usually The Case That The Faddish Prescription Was Indeed Sound Advice In Certain Circumstances, But Actually Was Poor Advice In Other Circumstances.

I've Concluded That Getting The Categories Right Is An Absolutely Crucial Step To Building Useful Management Theory, And Unfortunately Too Few Writers Do This. You've Got To Engage In Serious Scholarship, And Then Figure Out How To Write It In A Way That Lots Of People Can Understand.

The Personal Computer Was A Disruptive Innovation Relative To The Mainframe Because It Enabled Even A Poor Fool Like Me To Have A Computer And Use It, And It Was Enabled By The Development Of The Micro Processor. The Micro Processor Made It So Simple To Design And Build A Computer That Ib Could Throw In Together In A Garage. And So, You Have That Simplifying Technology As A Part Of Every Disruptive Innovation. It Then Becomes An Innovation When The Technology Is Embedded In A Different Business Model That Can Take The Simplified Solution To The Market In A Cost-effective Way.