“The person who is the star of previous era is often the last one to adapt to change, the last one to yield to logic of a strategic inflection point and tends to fall harder than most.”
“In short, strategic inflection points are about fundamental change in any business, technological or not”
“You can be the subject of a strategic inflection point but you can also be the cause of one”
“The strategic inflection point is the time to wake up an listen”
“One of the best and most efficacious methods for dealing with such a State, is for the Prince who acquires it to go and dwell there in person, since this will tend to make his tenure more secure and lasting.”
“a strategic inflection point is a time in the life of business when its fundamentals are about to change. that change can mean an opportunity to rise to new heights. But it may just as likely signal the beginning of the end”