The great Horace Deidu, on how HP and other computing giants missed the wave of mobile growth a decade ago:
But that’s the nature of unforeseeable growth: you cannot foresee what will happen and plans never work out. Data and planning don’t help. The lesson is that you need to plan for that which cannot be planned. When you are at your peak you must assume failure is imminent and when you are at the trough you must assume success is inevitable.
Utterly true.