How Steve Jobs Solved the Innovator's Dilemma

hype7 writes "With yesterday's release of the Steve Jobs biography, a raft of interesting information has come to light — including Jobs' favorite books. There's one book there listed as 'profoundly moving' to Jobs — The Innovator's Dilemma by innovation professor Clayton Christensen. The book explains how in the pursuit of profit, good managers leave their companies open to disruption. There's an interesting article over at the Harvard Business Review that explains how disruption works, and how Jobs managed to solve the dilemma by focusing Apple on products rather than profit."

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Re:How long...

[MobileTatsu-NJG]

Slashdot is ad-driven and Apple brings a lot fo comments, both good and bad.

Think about that next time you whine about too many Apple stories floating around.

Re:Cue the haters

[bky1701]

Sure they're Apple haters, and you're not an Apple fanboi? Reality gets skewed a bit once you drink the flavor-aid... but I have to say, your post is a new extreme.

I am completely tired of Jobs stories. This is worse than the usual Apple fanboyism; it seems anything at all even remotely related to Steve-baby gets on the front page, no matter how irrelevant or pointless. Look at how many stories there are about the marketing mogul Jobs (sorry, no time to count), and how many there are about REAL computer pioneers like John McCarthy (1) and Dennis Ritchie (also 1).

Slashdot has fallen far when someone like you can be modded up for whining about "Apple haters" not likely a Jobs-a-day story, while ignoring actually important people and their contributions. You make me sick.