
Blitzkrieg: How Britain Invented, Then Ignored It
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How to Do New Things in Old Organizations
The dominant organization of yesterday has a good chance of being the dominant organization of tomorrow. IBM's problem was that its old organizational structures and systems had become a liability, not an advantage. Before the First World War, armies had been organized for centuries around cavalry and infantry. The mounted troops offered mobility, the foot soldiers' strength in numbers, and the ability to dig in defensively.
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