Preface
This book explains how to understand, create, and apply revolutions in business and technology.
A few years ago, my colleagues and I met at the Boston airport to discuss the future of our organization, an industry group in the field of telecommunications. We’d hired a professional moderator to lead the discussions, and at one point the moderator had us working on the significant inventions of the past thirty years, the innovations that had transformed telecommunications. We generated a timeline with some interesting items on it (you’ll see some of them in Chapter 1), and then the moderator asked a rather ho-hum, standard question just to move the conversation along: “What do these inventions have in common?”
The answer hit me like a ...
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