The Innovator's Dilemma"The innovator's dilemma is in his head. Well, first it's in his eyes: not seeing what you don't believe is possible is the first problem; not believing what you're seeing is the second; not being able to imagine it as a threat is the third; not responding to it in time is the fourth." - Clayton Christensen
Different Takes on the Innovator's Dilemma
"The lion does not turn around when a small dog barks." - African Proverb
“As the doctors say of a wasting disease, to start with it is easy to cure but difficult to diagnose. After a time, unless it has been diagnosed and treated at the outset, it becomes easy to diagnose but difficult to cure.” - Machiavelli, The Prince
"Success is dangerous. One begins to copy oneself, and to copy oneself is more dangerous than to copy others. It leads to sterility." - Pablo Picasso
"The journey is hard, for the secret place where we have always been is overgrown with thorns and thickets of ideas, of fears and defenses, prejudices and repressions." - Peter Matthiessen, The Snow Leopard
"The best swordsman in the world doesn't need to fear the second best swordsman in the world; no the person for him to be afraid of is some ignorant antagonist who has never had a sword in his hand before; he doesn't do the things he ought to do, and so the expert is not prepared for him; he does the thing he ought not to do and it often catches the expert out and ends him on the spot." - Mark Twain
"Genuinely believing that your enemy is irrational, as opposed to pretending to do so for propaganda purposes, will almost certainly ensure that you cannot defeat him. You can only defeat an antagonist whose ways of seeing things you can make sense of. Some of the British People may have believed that the IRA had no goals other than to maim and slaughter, but British Intelligence took a different view. There is nothing irrational, as opposed to morally repulsive, about killing people to achieve your political ends. It is not on the same level as believing that you are Marie Antoinette. If one’s enemy really is metaphysically evil, then the chances of defeating him look rather small. Not even the SAS can stand up to Satan." - Terry Eagleton, Holy Terror
"The past is never dead. It’s not even past. All of us labor in webs spun long before we were born, webs of heredity and environment, of desire and consequence, of history and eternity. Haunted by wrong turns and roads not taken, we pursue images perceived as new but whose providence dates to the dim dramas of childhood, which are themselves but ripples of consequence echoing down the generations. The quotidian demands of life distract from this resonance of images and events, but some of us feel it always." - William Faulkner
"The future enters into us in order to transform itself into us… long before it happens." - Rainer Maria Rilke
“Nothing is more dangerous than an idea when it's the only one you have.” - Emil' E Chartier
"The laws of life and death are as they should be. The laws of matter and force are as they should be, and if death ends my consciousness, still is death good. I have had life on those terms, and somewhere, somehow, the course of nature is justified. I shall not be imprisoned in a grave where you are to bury my remains. I shall be diffused in great nature, in the soil, in the air, in the water, in the sunshine, in the hearts of those who love me, in all the living and flowing currents of the world, though I may never again in my entirety be embodied in a single human being. My elements and my forces go back into the original sources out of which they came, and these sources are perennial in this vast, wonderful, divine cosmos." - John Burrough, Accepting the Universe
Clayton Christensen, The Innovator's Dilemma
From MIT World
The Innovator's Prescription: A Disruptive Solution to the Healthcare Crisis, Clayton Christensen (Video)
From The Gartner Fellows
Interview with Clayton Christensen - Part One
Interview with Clayton Christensen - Part Two
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