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Seeking Alpha: Apple and Tesla Motors: Serial Disruptors

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The second positive TSLA article on Seeking Alpha in two days!

Apple and Tesla Motors: Serial Disruptors

Any manager or growth investor should read the excellent and revolutionary book, "Innovator's Dilemma" by Clayton Christensen. We know that it was one of Steve Jobs' favorite books and "deeply influenced" him. I was very surprised, however, that Elon Musk had not read it...

This article proposes a comparative analysis of how Apple (AAPL) has solved and how Tesla (TSLA) is trying to solve the very difficult problem of going to market with revolutionary products. These two companies don't follow the strategies proposed by Christensen, demonstrating out-of-the-box thinking in every aspect. They're probably evolving new paradigms for the business world.
 
Picked up a copy of the book that Nicu and John are referencing. Even if you only read chapter 10 where Christian predicts what a disruptive electric car might look like if you were a major auto manufacturer and wanted to be apart of the revolution. He gets a lot right but misses Tesla's "top down" plan. Was a fun read!

http://www.amazon.com/The-Innovator...0244/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1334344563&sr=8-1

I found this were the author (who coined "Disruptive Technology "had been helping GM with a marketing plan.

Can't find anything recent he has said about Tesla.