Tag: social ineptness

  • The Best Companies Don’t Adapt, Rather Prepare

    In 1960, Harvard professor Theodore Levitt published a landmark paper in Harvard Business Review that urged executives to adapt by asking themselves, “What business are we really in?” He offered both the railroad companies and Hollywood studios as examples of industries that don’t adapt because they defined their business incorrectly. Yet today, the railroads don’t seem to be doing too badly.…