The Exigent Duality
Teetering - 07:40 CST, 12/04/18 (Sniper)
This reads like a gold mine's worth of advice to modern-day companies.

I wish my employer would take up this approach-- specifically, the one about setting up a team completely outside of the current business, to rapidly iterate through ways to disrupt that business. I've argued long and often within my workplace to whomever would listen, for the company to do just that.

Instead, they are one of those "run by people who have been with the company for thirty years", and the business is built for "efficiency and predictability". As this author would anticipate then, this firm has been one of Minnesota's highest profile corporations to be in a perpetual state of struggle, for several years in a row now.

What's funny is that the executives acquired a hot, relatively new company in their market, with a West Coast-styled visionary CEO. Shortly after the sale went through, the guy gave the first-ever great speech I'd ever heard from a company leader. Almost immediately thereafter? The board "disappeared" him, relegating him to some meaningless desk job, until he left. They couldn't tolerate a speech, much less actual change.

On the other hand, perhaps this author's take is merely based on the ephemeral "late stage empire collapse" moment in which the world presently lives? Stuff like "don't own assets" is so far from what has been basic common sense, that this trend towards a "sharing" economy might be temporary.