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Dakota Tribal Wisdom Says That When You're On A Dead Horse, The Best Strategy Is To Dismount. Of Course, There Are Other Strategies. You Can Change Riders. You Can Get A Committee To Study The Dead Horse. You Can Benchmark How Other Companies Ride Dead Horses. You Can Declare That It's Cheaper To Feed A Dead Horse. You Can Harness Several Dead Horses Together. But After You've Tried All These Things, You're Still Going To Have To Dismount.

When A Politician Bends The Truth Or A Ceo Breaks A Promise, Trust Takes A Beating.

The Biggest Barriers To Strategic Renewal Are Almost Always Top Management's Unexamined Beliefs.

It Doesn't Matter Much Where Your Company Sits In Its Industry Ecosystem, Nor How Vertically Or Horizontally Integrated It Is - What Matters Is Its Relative 'share Of Customer Value' In The Final Product Or Solution, And Its Cost Of Producing That Value.

Out There In Some Garage Is An Entrepreneur Who's Forging A Bullet With Your Company's Name On It. You've Got One Option Now - To Shoot First. You've Got To Out Innovate The Innovators.