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Interesting quote. I shall forward it to my boss (we are a software publisher).

• dagw 7y ago
  That is basically Clayton Christensen whole shtick (may even be his quote). He published a rather influential book 20 years ago (The Innovator's Dilemma) that popularized that idea. It's an interesting read, even if not everything has aged equally well.
  • feb 7y ago
    That book is on my shelf to be read. In what way did age poorly ?
    • dagw 7y ago
      The book as a whole has aged pretty well (with the caveat that I haven't read it in over a decade). My recollection of the book is that it tended to treat disrupting an entrenched player as a panacea and being disrupted as a death knell. It was somewhat un-nuanced in its disruptor/disrutptee split, and doesn't really look much at why some of the disrupted companies remained perfectly fine and why some of disruptors floundered. Still a great book and it was highly influential on how I think about business. He's also written a bunch of books after that book that may or may not cover some of those points.