SUMMER BONUS: Safe Is Risky

In Clayton Christensen's classic "The Innovator's Dilemma," he explains how successful companies often fail by becoming overly locked into their established business models and optimizing the heck out of them, thereby ignoring more risky disruptive innovations. The speed of disruption when Christensen wrote his book wasn't exactly glacial, but it was far, far slower than it is today. Today, we are confronted with a New Innovator's Dilemma. Disruption is unrelenting, and the pace of change is often more exponential than linear. The evidence is overwhelming, and the verdict is in. Safe is risky. And more and more, fortune favors the bold.