Opportunity missed . .
.
No corporation in the world was better
placed to drive the development of the Internet in its infancy than
AT&T and IBM.
Yet these icons of industrial
excellence, blinded by success that limited their vision, refused to
get in at the birth of the dominant medium of the 21st Century,
referring to stick to their traditional paths.
Tangled Up In The Past tells the story
of that opportunity missed . . . and the billion-dollar consequences
still reverberating in today’s headlines.
And because only a Luddite would think
the flow of opportunities has stopped, the lessons for today’s
corporate leaders continue to be inescapably essential.
Tangled Up In The Past brings to life a
compelling theme:
In a fast-changing world, it is never
enough to concentrate only on your core competencies. Rather, leaders
need to exercise a constant, rigorous peripheral vision, searching for
possibilities beyond today’s focus. For the only future we can rely on
is the one we make.
For people who are thoughtful about
business strategy and hungry to put to use those small blocks of time
everyone has – on a commute, in an airplane, just prior to sleep –
this is An Hour’s Good Read
