There Are Two Options: Adapt Or Die.

I Think Amazon Is The Preeminent Pioneer In Building A New Way Of Doing Commerce: Personalized, Database-driven Commerce, Where The Big Value Is Not In The Purchase Fulfillment, But In Knowing As Much About A Customer Base Of Ten Or Twenty Million People As A Corner Store Used To Know About A Customer Base Of A Few Hundred. In Today's Mass-merchandising World, That's Largely Gone; Amazon Is Trying To Use Computer Technology To Re-establish It.

Most Americans Probably Aren't Aware That There Was A Time In This Country When Tanks And Cavalry Were Massed On Pennsylvania Avenue To Chase Away The Unemployed.

The Lesson Is, We All Need To Expose Ourselves To The Winds Of Change

A Question That Often Comes Up At Times Of Strategic Transformation Is, Should You Pursue A Highly Focused Approach, Betting Everything On One Strategic Goal, Or Should You Hedge? ... Mark Twain Hit It On The Head When He Said, Put All Of Your Eggs In One Basket And Watch That Basket.

If The Brutal Facts Are Not Faced By Leaders, The Brutal Reality Sets In.