A perspective on “reinvention”

Think about a perspective called “creative destruction” aka “reinvention”the new makes obsolete and replaces the old…

In business, If one takes this concept to heart [and to the max], a notion might be to set up an organization within an organization to destroy it. Better to be destroyed from within than from without if you own the destroyer from within. So, In addition to a CEO an organization would also have an LOO [Loyal Opposition Officer] who leads the destructive unit.*

For example, before there were electronic pocket calculators, scientists, mathematicians, etc. had to use a slide rule for certain calculations. The leading slide rule manufacturer was damaged from parties outside [e.g., Texas Instruments], not from the inside… Get it?

*Who knows organizational weaknesses better than an insider?

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