Now, I think it is only partially correct. In an environment that keeps changing rapidly, if you keep doing what brought you to the level of success you now enjoy, you'll probably fall further and further behind. Faster electric typewriters didn't change the way documents are produced. Faster adding machines didn't revolutionize the financial industry. Word processing programs and spreadsheets whacked the existing industry up side the head and changed the way business is done forever.
Innovation is the key .
Technological innovation has spurred the economic revolution today more than anything politicians have done. Some would say technological innovation has done it in spite of what the politicians have done. Your business success in the future will be closely aligned with the quality and quantity of brilliant, radical, crazy and wild-eyed innovations that you and your people can generate. Breakthrough ideas often happen when you let your logical side take a nap. Study any successful humorist and comedian and you'll notice they have a style that looks at life differently than others.