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Whether a firm was a start-up or a diversified firm had little impact on its success rate. What mattered appears not to have been its organizational form, but whether it was a leader in introducing disruptive products and creating the markets in which they were sold.

when the same analytical and decision-making processes learned in the school of sustaining innovation are applied to enabling or disruptive technologies, the effect on the company can be paralyzing.

Is he irreplaceable? Is he the Steve Jobs of JPMorgan Chase?

It traditionally assumed that firms were independent, and so changes would be independent, and so their sizes and aggregate effects would be distributed normally.

The Innovator’s Dilemma taught Jensen, as it has generations of business leaders, how to protect his company from competition. It helped him understand the threat from low-cost competitors, which is why he launched lines of low-tier and mid-tier Nvidia chips made from parts that were not quite good enough for the top-of-the-line chips. It convinced

management and corporate strategy), there’s one now-anachronistic section about the hidden potential of some up-and-coming