William J. Abernathy, Kim B. Clark, and Alan M. Kantrow Quotes

History does not treat kindly those societies that diagnose their structural weaknesses only after those weaknesses have become irreversible.

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Under the new industrial competition, there are no frozen niches in frozen markets for which established producers compete like so many successive dictators in a banana republic. Markets and industries are themselves in flux, and to the winners belong not so much the old-fashioned spoils of victory as the right to define the terms of competition in the future.

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