Nunca descansar, nunca assentar, nunca confiar que o futuro será uma extrapolação linear do presente

"Therefore, a company must never settle for what it has. While fighting it out in its current position, it must continuously search for new positions and new opportunities (Moi ici: a exploration e exploitation de March).
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Simple as this may sound, it contrasts sharply with the way most firms compete in their industries: most of them take the established rules of the game as given and spend all their time trying to become better than each other in their existing positions - usually through cost or differentiation strategies. Little or no emphasis is placed at becoming different from competitors. This is reflected in the fact that most firms which strategically innovate by breaking the rules of the game are small niche players or new market entrants. It is rare to find a strategic innovator who is also an established industry big player - a fact which hints at the difficulties of risking the sure thing for something uncertain."
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Para terminar a leitura do artigo  da revista Business Strategy Review, publicado em 1999, da autoria de Constantinos Markides, intitulado "Six Principles of Breakthrough Strategy".
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Nichos, nichos, nichos, nichos, nichos, nichos.
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Chegar e deitar abaixo o pau do circo para, no meio da confusão instalada, enquanto os incumbentes tentam perceber o que se passou, avançar com algo novo, com algo diferente.