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The Architect of Ruin: Decoding Corporate Extinction

Key Insights
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  • Organizational inertia prevents adaptation to changing market conditions.
  • Cognitive rigidity blinds leaders to emerging threats.
  • The competence that builds success often becomes the trap that ensures failure.
  • Successful companies develop blind spots that competitors can exploit.
  • Strategic renewal requires dismantling the very structures that created initial success.

References
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  2. Collins, J. (2009). How the Mighty Fall: And Why Some Companies Never Give In. HarperCollins.
  3. Foster, R., & Kaplan, S. (2001). Creative Destruction: Why Companies That Are Built to Last Underperform the Market–and How to Successfully Transform Them. Currency.
  4. Sull, D. (2005). Reviving Growth at Mature Companies. Harvard Business Review.
  5. Tripsas, M., & Gavetti, G. (2000). Capabilities, cognition, and inertia: Evidence from digital imaging. Strategic Management Journal, 21(10-11), 1147-1161.