THE DISRUPTION
MACHINE: What the gospel of innovation gets wrong.
BY JILL LEPORE
Jill Lepore offers a blistering (and frankly, a much needed)
critique of Christensen’s thesis of disruptive innovation. Lepore wisely observes:
“Every age has a
theory of rising and falling, of growth and decay, of bloom and wilt: a theory
of nature. Every age also has a theory about the past and the present, of what
was and what is, a notion of time: a theory of history.”