> but if you had good internal politics, you wouldn't need a new division either. I don't know if I agree with this unless you mean to define "good internal po

> but if you had good internal politics, you wouldn't need a new division either. I don't know if I agree with this unless you mean to define "good internal politics" as internal politics that drives a company to self-disrupt. As shown by the article, self-disruption isn't possible as a big company because the friction of changing things like supply chains and other capital. You really need to start another company that, in a sense, competes (and sometimes at least for a time complements) the larger company. Good internal politics would help to not squash internal competition, but it isn't, I think, enough to purposefully set up that competition.