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Disruptive technologies typically enable new markets to emerge. There is strong evidence showing that companies entering these emerging markets early have significant first-mover advantages over later entrants.

— Clayton M. Christensen The Innovator's Dilemma (1997)

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It’s easier to hold to your principles 100% of the time than it is to hold to them 98% of the time.

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Low-end disruption occurs when the rate at which products improve exceeds the rate at which customers can adopt the new performance.

Only the general manager can mold the resources, processes, and values that affect innovation, into a coherent capability to develop and launch superior new products and services repeatedly.

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