Os mordomos de Gondor e os outros

Ao ler este postal de Steven Blank "There's Always a Plan B" e em especial:
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"I realized that this was a real-world example of the difference between an entrepreneur and an operating executive.
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There’s Always a Plan B
My formal definition of a startup is a temporary organization in search of a scalable and repeatable business model. Yet if you’ve founded a company you know that regardless of any formal definition, startups are inherently pure chaos. As a founder, keeping your company alive requires you to think creatively and independently because more often than not, conditions on the ground will change so rapidly that any original well-thought-out plan quickly becomes irrelevant. (It’s equally true for startups, war, love and life.)
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The reality is that to survive requires a mindset which can quickly separate the crucial from the irrelevant, synthesize the output, and use this intelligence to create islands of order in the all-out chaos of a startup.
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To do this you are instinctually creating and testing multiple hypotheses which are creating an infinite number of possible future plans. And when the inevitable happens and some or all your assumptions were wrong, you pivot your model into the next plan and continue forward. You do this until you find a scalable and repeatable business model or you die by running out of money."
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Eu acrescentaria, e não é só na fase de start-up, é para sempre. Basta estar atento e perguntar se a empresa tem futuro a fazer o que faz actualmente daqui a 5 anos, e perceber as ameaças e perceber as oportunidades, para começar a namorar com uma alternativa onde se poderá estar melhor dentro de 5 anos...
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Claro que os incumbentes já não são empreendedores, são gestores do que existe... são mordomos de Gondor, têm medo de perder o pé, têm medo de arriscar, têm medo ...