The Innovator's Dilemma: The Revolutionary Book that Will Change the Way You Do Business (Collins Business Essentials)

You'd like to think that a book this widely praised must have risen above the most obvious pitfalls, but in this case it actually didn't. Christensen is looking at "disruptive technologies" in retrospect, pointing out what could have been done to capitalize on them, but he misses an obvious point: It's rarely apparent which technologies will be "disruptive" before the fact. And any company that applies his prescriptions to every potentially disruptive technology that comes its way will use a lot of time & resources following dead ends. Until they go bankrupt, that is.

(As an aside: I'm no businessman, and am not really that interested in how businesses run. I read this because it was required for a class on emerging technologies, and for the life of me I can't figure out why it was required. But that's a criticism of the instructor, not this book.)