History repeats itself and right now, the tech industry is starting to look a lot like it was in the 1970s. In the 70s, the tech was dominated by 2 firms: AT&T and IBM. AT&T’s telephones were in every home in America and it controlled pretty much the full gamut of communications – local, long-distance,…
Category: Innovation
The Culture of Innovation
This story about some of the most innovative organizational cultures in history was originally published in MISC Magazine as a two-part series (part 1 here and part 2 here). History is rife with examples of breakthroughs and innovative leaps. However, if we look to the past 150 years, we begin to notice a clustering of…