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Only the Paranoid Survive:
…when a strategic inflection point sweeps through the industry, the more successful a participant was in the old industry structure, the more threatened it is by change and the more reluctant it is to adapt to it.
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Only the Paranoid Survive:
…whereas the cost to enter a given industry in the face of well-entrenched participants can be very high, when the structure breaks, the cost to enter may become trivially small…
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Only the Paranoid Survive:
…in this hypercompetitive horizontal world, opportunity knocks when a technology break or other fundamental change comes your way. Grab it.
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Only the Paranoid Survive:
The first mover and only the first mover, the company that acts while the others dither, has a true opportunity to gain time over its competitors – and time advantage, in business, is the surest way to gain market share.
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Only the Paranoid Survive:
…people who try to fight the wave of a new technology lose in spite of their best efforts because they waste valuable time.
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Only the Paranoid Survive:
By virtue of the functional specialization that prevails, horizonal industries tend to be more cost-effective than their vertical equivalents. Simply put, it’s harder to be the best of class in several fields than in just one.
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Only the Paranoid Survive:
By learning from the painful experience of others, we can improve our ability to recognize a strategic inflection point that’s about to affect us. And that’s half the battle.
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Only the Paranoid Survive:
A far superior competitor appearing on the scene is a mandate for you to change. Continuing to do what worked before doesn’t work anymore.
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Only the Paranoid Survive:
…technological brewing that are likely to bring changes of the same magnitude – or bigger – in the years ahead.
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Only the Paranoid Survive:
A fundamental rule in technology says that whatever can be done will be done.
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