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Approximately Correct Is Better than Precisely Incorrect

Harvard Business Review

Levitt and Dubner, they of Freakonomics, offer a slightly more sophomoric example when they point out that the "average" adult in a global sample has one breast and one testicle. Still, companies often make the mistake of developing products and features to appeal to the mean. They pore over aggregate results and aggregate averages.

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5 Questions That Will Help You Stay Ahead of Your Disruptors

Harvard Business Review

Grove’s 1980 question remains as ruthlessly relevant to C-suites as Ted Levitt’s 1960 classic, “What business are you in?” They see disrupted incumbents from retail, finance, health care, transportation, professional services, and manufacturing requiring radical restructuring of assets, productivity , and innovation.

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