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Why Tim Cook is Steve Ballmer and Why He Still Has His Job at Apple

Steve Blank

Ballmer and Microsoft failed because the CEO was a world-class executor (a Harvard grad and world-class salesman) of an existing business model trying to manage in a world of increasing change and disruption. Visionary CEOs don’t need someone else to demo the company’s key products for them. The result?

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Is It Possible for Companies to Over-Innovate?

IdeaScale

What’s wrong with “too much” creativity and thinking ahead. Motorola’s RAZR and RIM’s BlackBerry were cutting-edge until 2007 when the iPhone arrived and made both of them utterly irrelevant in the time it took to explain what an “iPhone” even was. To get a balanced, smart innovation strategy, request a demo.

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