Disruptive Innovations Create Jobs, Efficiency Innovations Destroy

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.

The Only Useful Information About The Market Will Be What I Create Through Expeditions Into The Market, Through Testing And Probing, Trial And Error, By Selling Real Products To Real People Who Pay Real Money.

Disruptive Innovations Create Jobs, Efficiency Innovations Destroy Them.

Ultimately, When You Come Up With A Classification Scheme That Is Collectively Exhaustive And Mutually Exclusive, Then The Theory Can Become What Kuhn Called A Paradigm.

Only The General Manager Can Mold The Resources, Processes, And Values That Affect Innovation , Into A Coherent Capability To Develop And Launch Superior New Products And Services Repeatedly.