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Examine. Apple won't be defeated the day Microsoft makes an Applier phone. It will be defeated the day Apple makes a more Microsoftian gadget. The rule? Strategy's battle is defeating a rival, by any means necessary. But Wisdom's battle is the real one: never to compromise your essence, the way you want to change the world. Wise organizations — like wise people — spend time every day examining whether the rot of compromise has led, unintentionally, to self-defea
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Examine. Apple won't be defeated the day Microsoft makes an Applier phone. It will be defeated the day Apple makes a more Microsoftian gadget. The rule? Strategy's battle is defeating a rival, by any means necessary. But Wisdom's battle is the real one: never to compromise your essence, the way you want to change the world. Wise organizations — like wise people — spend time every day examining whether the rot of compromise has led, unintentionally, to self-defeat.
So what should we demand from a bailout of Detroit? There's a bigger point raised by the serial destruction of Wall St. and Detroit. The roiling, seething 21st century demands nothing less than a new economic roadmap: new rules for new kinds of institutions.
To begin making that roadmap concrete, let's highlight the six critical mistakes Detroit made by following yesterday's rules, to draw out some of the new rules of 21st century business - new rules that you can use to start reconceiving, reinventing, and revolutionizing your own organizations.
Constructive Capitalism
Umair Haque, chef för Havas Media Lab och bloggare på Harvard Business Publishing. Han hjälper investerare, entreprenörer och företag med ledarskaputveckling, affärsmodeller och strategisk innovation.
The Smart Growth Manifesto
The simple answer for regulators is: regulate banking like a utility
Markets alter the basis of competition. Apple took something terminally closed - the mobile value chain -and pried it radically open. Facebook - still thinking in yesterday's terms - took something radically open - the www - and is trying to make it a little bit more closed.
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Markets alter the basis of competition. Apple took something terminally closed - the mobile value chain -and pried it radically open. Facebook - still thinking in yesterday's terms - took something radically open - the www - and is trying to make it a little bit more closed.
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