Sales-Product Tension: Small Companies Scale and Big Companies Fail

Steve Denning has a great short article in Forbes, referencing Peggy Noonan on what Steve Jobs had to say about why big companies fail. The article is worth reading - actually, the entire Isaacson biography of Jobs is a great read - but here is the money quote: The company does a great job, innovates and becomes a monopoly or close to it in some field, and then the quality of the product becomes less important.