The Innovator's Dilemma Disolves When Truth Is Boss
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The article discusses how embracing a 'reality-first culture' can help overcome the innovator's dilemma by prioritizing truth and customer needs over ego and past successes, with commenters exploring the idea and seeking counterexamples.
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It frames a reality-first culture that celebrates endings, updates quickly, and serves customers over attachments to past wins, titles, narratives, metrics, and stories that made us look good yesterday.
Curious for counterexamples where this still fails. Or examples of times where you were in a company that operated in this way.