Size and popularity are no guarantee of survival when confronting the Innovator's Dilemma. 10 years ago, very few people could have conceived of a day when the landscape would change so dramatically that a company nearly as ubiquitous as Starbucks would implode and be brushed into the dustbin of history. But that is exactly what has happened to Blockbuster, which failed to envision the changing course of the future, as Netflix did. The lesson here, of course, among many, is that the giant Netflix, sitting pretty today, must always be scanning the horizon, not for the next David, but for the composition of the stone in his slingshot. http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2013-11-06/blockbuster-video-rental-chain-will-shut-remaining-u-s-stores.html

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