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Making Sense of Our Very Competitive, Super Monopolistic Economy

Harvard Business Review

Blockbuster went bankrupt in 2010. A company has an innovative idea, which for a while provides competitive advantage. Later on, a new innovator comes along and pushes it aside. If regulators prevented industry leaders from buying up competitors, it would limit their market power and allow for more competition.

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Throw Your Life a Curve

Harvard Business Review

According to Méndez-García, one of the best models for making sense of a non-linear world is the S-curve , the model we have used to understand the diffusion of disruptive innovations, and which he and I speculate can be used to understand personal disruption — the necessary pivots in our own career paths. Saturation is reached at 90%+.