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There Is No Way To Create Wealth Without Ideas. Most New Ideas Are Created By Newcomers. So Anyone Who Thinks The World Is Safe For Incumbents Is Dead Wrong.

When A Politician Bends The Truth Or A Ceo Breaks A Promise, Trust Takes A Beating.

Dakota Tribal Wisdom Says That When You're On A Dead Horse, The Best Strategy Is To Dismount. Of Course, There Are Other Strategies. You Can Change Riders. You Can Get A Committee To Study The Dead Horse. You Can Benchmark How Other Companies Ride Dead Horses. You Can Declare That It's Cheaper To Feed A Dead Horse. You Can Harness Several Dead Horses Together. But After You've Tried All These Things, You're Still Going To Have To Dismount.

Fact Is, Inventing An Innovative Business Model Is Often Mostly A Matter Of Serendipity.

We Like To Believe We Can Break Strategy Down To Five Forces Or Seven Ss. But You Can't. Strategy Is Extraordinarily Emotional And Demanding.