Sublime

Whether you think of it as “paranoia” à la Andrew Grove (“Only the paranoid survive”), or as staying with the old formula too long, the message is identical: When customers move, the profit zone moves. You must reinvent your business design to move with them.

Evolve or die.

Microsoft has been able to convert its installed base position into a de facto standard that is a very powerful economic engine.

leverage is also central to its economics.

Each company is trying to figure out how to strategize, how much to invest, what the technology should be. In a case like that, it’s not at equilibrium.

the point I am trying to make is that only through a deep and unfailing awareness of the structure and effects of information, through a demystification of media, is there any hope of our gaining some measure of control over television, or the computer, or any other medium.

faster churning of companies in and out of the S&P 500, the death of news and the newspaper, the failure of established

If we don’t change course, he fears we are headed toward a world where “there’s going to be an upper class of people that are very aware” of the risks to their attention and find ways to live within their limits, and then there will be the rest of the society with “fewer resources to resist the manipulation, and they’re going to be living more and

Finally, one further consequence of the shift to bigger, more bureaucratized companies was a radical restructuring of the relation between workers and bosses.