What's been missing from regions outside of Silicon Valley is a 'playbook.' In American football, a playbook contains a sports team's strategies and plays. It struck me that every region needs its own industry playbook on how to compete globally.

Steve Blank
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  3. In corporations, the penalty for repeated failure on known tasks is being reassigned to other tasks or asked to leave the company.
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