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Back in 2020, when I wrote a post on Goldratt - The Goal, I’d mentioned that it was one of the 3 books1 that Jeff Bezos used to ask his Senior Managers to read. At that point, I’d read 2 of the 3 books - Effective Executive by Drucker and Goldratt - The Goal by Goldratt. The one that was left to read was “The Innovator’s Dilemma”. It is a phenomenal book to read. Great quotes, examples and life lessons to learn from. In some ways, it goes against some of the principles in Good to Great. It says that good management was the most powerful reason many big companies failed to stay atop their industries.
”If good management practice drives the failure of successful firms faced with disruptive technological change, then the usual answers to companies, problems — planning better, working harder, becoming more customer-driven, and taking a longer-term perspective — all exacerbate the problem. Sound execution, speed-to-market, total quality management, and process reengineering are similarly ineffective.”
In spirit, it is similar to Gladwell’s David vs Goliath. David is nimble, and has lot more freedom for manouverability but Goliath is huge, has a heavy armor and is limited in mobility and what he can use.
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”An organization’s capabilities reside in two places. The first is in its processes — the methods by which people have learned to transform inputs of labor, energy, materials, information, cash, and technology into outputs of higher value. The second is in the organization’s values, which are the criteria that managers and employees in the organization use when making prioritization decisions.”
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