{"id":22036,"date":"2013-09-08T10:53:02","date_gmt":"2013-09-08T15:53:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=22036"},"modified":"2013-09-08T10:54:30","modified_gmt":"2013-09-08T15:54:30","slug":"sometimes-the-worst-possible-thing-for-you-is-to-dominate-your-market","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2013\/09\/08\/sometimes-the-worst-possible-thing-for-you-is-to-dominate-your-market\/","title":{"rendered":"Sometimes the worst possible thing for you is to dominate your market"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/charleshughsmith.blogspot.ca\/2013\/09\/when-dominance-leads-to-incompetence.html\" target=\"_blank\">Charles Hugh Smith<\/a> on the dangers of being too big in your own market:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong>Microsoft is a case study in dominance leading to incompetence and catastrophe<\/strong>. Within the moat of near-monopoly\/dominance, competence dwindles to the ability to keep doing what worked spectacularly well in the past, and keeping bureaucratic infighting and divisional rivalries down to a dull background erosion of initiative and talent.<\/p>\n<p>Doing more of what succeeded spectacularly in the past works until it doesn&#8217;t, at which point doggedly pressing on with the old formula of success leads to catastrophic failures.<\/p>\n<p>Nokia and Blackberry are recent case studies, but the rise of Google Chrome and smart-phone\/tablet computing is beginning to threaten Microsoft&#8217;s core business of being the utility monopoly in the PC space.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Dominance means leaders and employees alike lose the ability to experience risk<\/strong>. The customer will take what is delivered, regardless, for the simple reason that alternatives are either unavailable or cumbersome.<\/p>\n<p>[&#8230;]<\/p>\n<p><strong>Dominance in any space breeds complacency and enables the luxuries of political squabbling, sclerosis and loss of focus<\/strong>. Competence becomes incompetence, and the infrastructure that fosters creativity and flexibility &mdash; that is, a keen appreciation of risk and spontaneity &mdash; is slowly dismantled.<\/p>\n<p>That applies not just to corporations but to governments, nations and empires.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>H\/T to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.zerohedge.com\/news\/2013-09-07\/guest-post-when-dominance-leads-incompetence-and-catastrophe\" target=\"_blank\"><em>Zero Hedge<\/em><\/a> for the link.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Charles Hugh Smith on the dangers of being too big in your own market: Microsoft is a case study in dominance leading to incompetence and catastrophe. Within the moat of near-monopoly\/dominance, competence dwindles to the ability to keep doing what worked spectacularly well in the past, and keeping bureaucratic infighting and divisional rivalries down to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[831],"tags":[484,109,328,94],"class_list":["post-22036","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business","tag-competition","tag-computers","tag-google","tag-microsoft"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2hpV6-5Jq","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22036","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22036"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22036\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22039,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22036\/revisions\/22039"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22036"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22036"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22036"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}