There Needs To Be Conviction And Action

Innovation Almost Always Is Not Successful The First Time Out. You Try Something And It Doesn't Work And It Takes Confidence To Say We Haven't Failed Yet. Ultimately You Become Commercially Successful.

Government Mandates, Incidentally, Are Likely To Distort Rather Than Solve The Problem Of Finding A Market. I Would, Therefore, Force My Organization To Live By Its Wits Rather Than To Rely On Capricious Subsidies Or Non-economic-based Regulation To Fuel My Business.

Every Disruptive Innovation Is Powered By A Simplifying Technology, And Then The Technology Has To Get Embedded In A Different Kind Of A Business Model. The First Two Decades Of Digital Computing Were Characterized By The Huge Mainframe Computers That Filled A Whole Room, And They Had To Be Operated By Phd Computer Scientists. It Took The Engineers At Ibm About Four Years To Design These Mainframe Computers Because There Were No Rules. It Was An Intuitive Art And Just By Trial And Error And Experimentation They Would Evolve To A Computer That Worked.

I Was Lucky Enough To Build On The Work Of A Number Of People Who Had Already Run Laps Around This Theory-building Track. The Original Classification Scheme, Years Ago, Distinguished Radical From Incremental Change. The Theory Said That Established Firms Managed Incremental Change Well, But Would Be Expected To Founder When Their Industry Encountered A Radical Change.

In Our Lives And In Our Careers, Whether We Are Aware Of It Or Not, We Are Constantly Navigating A Path By Deciding Between Our Deliberate Strategies And The Unanticipated Alternatives That Emerge.