Why Even Great Companies Fail: Revisiting The Innovator’s Dilemma
Why do great companies fail? Clay Christensen’s The Innovator’s Dilemma reveals how success blinds leaders to disruptive innovation.
Category Books & Ideas
Concise reviews and reflections on books that shape how we think about technology, creativity, and the future. Each post distills big ideas into practical insights — from timeless classics to new releases redefining innovation.
The Loonshot Dilemma: Balancing Innovation and Execution in One Culture
Discover Safi Bahcall’s Phase Transition Model from Loonshots, a framework for balancing innovation and execution cultures to unlock transformative growth.
Play Bigger: Why Winning Companies Design Categories, Not Just Products
The secret advantage of companies like Uber, Tesla, and Airbnb…
The Innovator’s DNA: 5 Habits That Build Creative Leaders
Discover the five habits of disruptive thinkers from The Innovator’s DNA—and how to build them into your daily leadership practice.
How Innovation Really Happens: Lessons from History
Innovation is rarely sudden or solitary. Discover how history reveals innovation as a cumulative, decentralized, and serendipitous process.
Inside Apple’s Creative Engine: Lessons from Creative Selection
Discover how Apple’s creative process, revealed in Creative Selection, shows the power of iteration, storytelling, and human-centered design in innovation.
Measure What Matters: Turning Vision into Action with OKRs
Discover how OKRs turn ambition into measurable progress, linking vision, accountability, and execution in innovation-driven organizations.
The Hard Thing About Hard Things: Leadership in the Real World
Ben Horowitz’s The Hard Thing About Hard Things reveals how real founders survive chaos, layoffs, and scaling. Leadership without the playbook.
The Lean Startup Revolution: Why Every Idea Deserves an MVP
Discover how the Lean Startup mindset and MVP testing redefine innovation strategy for startups and enterprises alike.
From Zero to One: The Art of Building What Doesn’t Exist
Peter Thiel’s From Zero to One reframes innovation as escaping competition through unique value creation — a playbook for building the future.
The Innovator’s Dilemma — 30 Years Later: Still Right?
Thirty years on, The Innovator’s Dilemma still explains how disruption works—but AI and platforms have rewritten who gets disrupted.