"Early Chinese thinkers had taken variety at face value. They had favored diversification and collected anomalies instead of trying to explain them away."

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If you want to make better theory, you've got to use the best that's available and look through the lens of another discipline to see if you can uncover more anomalies. By looking at the phenomena of failure from the perspective of sales, marketing, finance, general management, and the equity markets, I was able to see things that Rebecca [Henderson] hadn't.

— Clayton Christensen