Innovation is inevitability, but managers doing the right thing will lead their companies to a bad place. The old powerful company was built around a different view of the world that got them to where they are. When you're growing and getting big, you're building walls around you that aren't visible until you need to shift. And then you're like, whoa, I'm in a straight jacket. You have an ossified business model. If you're in the view you're at, you're super flexible. But as you adapt to the environment and evolve and build into that environment and become a big organism or organization, that by definition means that if the environment starts to