The Best Strategy Is A Balance Between

Motivation Is The Catalyzing Ingredient For Every Successful Innovation. The Same Is True For Learning.

In The Study Of Management, Unfortunately, Many Writers Have Been So Anxious To Articulate A Theory In The Form Of, "if You Do This, This Will Result," That They Never Go Through This Careful Effort.

Focus Is Scary—until You Realize That It Only Means Turning Your Back On Markets You Could Never Have Anyway. Sharp Focus On Jobs That Customers Are Trying To Get Done Holds The Promise Of Greatly Improving The Odds Of Success In New-product Development.

The Reason Why It Is So Difficult For Existing Firms To Capitalize On Disruptive Innovations Is That Their Processes And Their Business Model That Make Them Good At The Existing Business Actually Make Them Bad At Competing For The Disruption. Companies In Fact Are Specifically Organized To Under-invest In Disruptive Innovations! This Is One Reason Why We Often Suggest That Companies Set Up Separate Teams Or Groups To Commercialize Disruptive Innovations. When Disruptive Innovations Have To Fight With Other Innovations For Resources, They Tend To Lose Out.

There's Usually Some Process By Which A Potentially Great Idea Gets Prostituted Into Something Lacklustre, Or By Which The Wrong Idea Gets Put Forward.