The danger is to cling to comfort and custom at a time when events demand breaking away from both. But it is also foolish to jump at every startling moment. Darwin selects primarily for prudent fast-following.

Try to learn as fast as you can from the wizards and then steal what you can appropriate from them and use it to modernize your existing business model (without disrupting it).

Without big data analytics, companies are blind and deaf, wandering out onto the Web like deer on a freeway.

We have embarked upon the world's largest and longest cocktail party, and every issue imaginable is up for grabs.

Don't think you have to be the disrupter to win. A fast-following disruptee will do very well if you can bring your existing customers and ecosystem along with you.

The biggest problem is typically overly ambitious expectations combined with undercapitalization.

Sustaining innovations are the key to consistent performance, whereas disruptive innovations are the key to dramatic changes in power.