Scott D. Anthony

I was even more hooked.

And the world certainly is different than it was in 2000 in lots of ways, for better in some and for worse in others.

I always think about the sign that Clay had hanging in his office, the famous sign, anomalies wanted.

Clay was a very good social scientist.

When he saw something that didn't fit his research,

He didn't seek to go and hide it or to refute it.

He sought to understand it so he could make his models, tools, and frameworks better.

And certainly over the past 25 years, the world has gotten more complicated.

I look a lot now to the research of my tech colleague, Ron Adner, who has done some great work on ecosystems to understand disruption sometimes occurs in a pocket of an ecosystem

And if you don't take what Ron calls the wide lens and look at the entire ecosystem, you can sometimes miss the implications of it.

So that's one thing.

You've had ecosystems and platforms emerge.

So it's gotten more complicated.

The other big thing that I would point out is Clay's first book, a famous book, The Innovator's Dilemma.

The subtitle kind of says it all.

When new technologies cause, wait for it,

great firms to fail.

What he said is there is a dilemma when disruption strikes.

When someone makes the complicated simple, the expensive affordable, my research says you bet on the attacker, the incumbent struggle with it.

Over the past 25 years, people have read that book and read all the other work that's been produced and have learned that the innovator's dilemma presents the innovator's opportunity.