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Would You Rather be Revolutionary or Evolutionary?

Harvard Business Review

Would you invest in this company? The precursor to today's steam engine — the Greek aeolipile invented in the 1st century by Heron of Alexendria — went nowhere because no evolutionary innovator picked up on it to take it to the next level. Even after the first automobile was developed by Benz, mass adoption took decades.

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