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Great Innovators Create the Future, Manage the Present, and Selectively Forget the Past

Harvard Business Review

Your current business is the performance engine. It both funds day-to-day operations and generates profits for the future. Where problems arise is when the present crowds out other strategic priorities—for example, when the only skills brought into a business are those that serve today’s core. Potato Head, G.I.