Disruption Is, At Its Core, A Really

Almost Always Great New Ideas Don't Emerge From Within A Single Person Or Function, But At The Intersection Of Functions Or People That Have Never Met Before.

Disruptive Innovations Create Jobs, Efficiency Innovations Destroy Them.

If The Theory Accurately Predicts What They [scientists] See, It Confirms That It's A Good Theory. If They See Something That The Theory Didn't Lead Them To Believe, That's What Thomas Kuhn Calls An Anomaly. The Anomaly Requires A Revised Theory - And You Just Keep Going Through The Cycle, Making A Better Theory.

If You Study The Root Causes Of Business Disasters, Over And Over You'll Find This Predisposition Toward Endeavors That Offer Immediate Gratification.

In My First Career I Had Founded My Own Company, With A Group Of Mit Professors, Before Coming To Harvard To Finish My Doctorate, And So I Had A Deep Respect For The Brains, Talent, And Dedication Of Managers. That Made It Hard For Me To Believe The Attributions In The Business Press That Stupid Management Was To Blame. So I Looked Elsewhere For An Explanation.