The Austro-Germanic school of fatalism (Spengler, Schumpeter) says that decline is inevitable. Empires will always ossify, a David will always rise to slay Goliath, and so it goes. Is that cycle of creative destruction truly inevitable? What’s an empire to do? Bush and Vail understood that the doomsday cycle is not inevitable, and that the best cha
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When legacy institutions are beyond saving, build something better. And bury them.
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This is identical to what we see all over tech today. As the structures of markets change, the optimal business models change with them. Business models are how we align and reconcile the markets needs with the cost and human capital required to provide them. Alignment of markets and the costs to serve them is core. And as either side changes, so t... See more
kwokchain.com • Aligning Business Models to Markets - Kwokchain
Only organizations that deliberately cultivate their rugged boundaries and then flexibly apply them have a shot at prospering over the long haul.