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  • Inertia and urge

    In business parlance, we call them “entrenchment” and “creative destruction”. Find a niche, dig in. By the time you crossed “valley of death”, someone had already elbowed in to eat your lunch. As Venture Capitalists scour the globe looking for “the” deal, they find new energy and risk-taking in places like Rwanda, Indonesia and Israel, the new “BRICS“. Emerged…

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  • creative disruption

    Innovator’s Dilemma is when incumbents grow complacent and are challenged by emerging forces that disrupt and destroy them. Gary Hamel in The Future of Management urges constant reinvention of management principles e.g. decision-making be pushed to the outer edges.  The point is, leaders are listeners, not lecturers. That’s hard! For centuries, we are conditioned to sit passively, and take…

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