Michael L. Tushman
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Sep 29, 2026
TomHOST
The film we watched is from 2017, The Current War, directed by Alfonso Gomez-Rayton and distributed by 101 Studios.
TomHOST
We also read two papers from Administrative Science Quarterly, Michael Tushman and Philip Anderson's Technological Discontinuities and Organizational Environments from 1986, and Benjamin Cole and David Chandler's A Model of Competitive Impression Management, Edison vs. Westinghouse in The War of the Currents from 2019.
TomHOST
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Freddie WagnerGUEST
This is Freddie Wagner calling from Düsseldorf in Germany.
speaker_0HOST
The film we watched is from twenty seventeen, The Current War, directed by Alfonso Gomez-Rejon and distributed by One O One Studios.
speaker_0HOST
We also read two papers from Administrative Science Quarterly, Michael Tushman and Philip Anderson's Technological Discontinuities and Organizational Environments from nineteen eighty-six, and Benjamin Cole and David Chandler's A Model of Competitive Impression Management: Edison versus Westinghouse in the War of the Currents from twenty nineteen.
speaker_0HOST
The War of the Currents was a real competition between two important industrial figures, Thomas Edison and George Westinghouse, over which type of power would become the dominant standard for distributing electricity across the United States.
speaker_0HOST
Edison was the initial combatant and championed direct current, or DC, in which electricity would flow in one direction as batteries do.
Wendy SmithGUEST
I mean, right up there, number one is this paradox of change and innovation, the tension between the old and the new, the existing and the novel.
Wendy SmithGUEST
In some of the work that I've done with my co-author colleague Marianne Lewis at the University of Cincinnati and my colleague and advisor from Harvard Business School, Mike Tushman, we identify these four core paradoxes.
Wendy SmithGUEST
And we identify for organizations, the first is this innovation paradox, the old and the new.
Wendy SmithGUEST
The second is what we call the globalization paradox, the tension that leaders feel when they want to have universal practices, processes, strategies that are consistent across the organization and yet want to enable local autonomy and distinction.
Steve RaderGUEST
And then maybe on another strand, be looking at where to go jump into my next investment.
Steve RaderGUEST
But it's, you know, Michael Tushman wrote a really great work at Harvard Business School.
Steve RaderGUEST
on ambidextrous organizations.
Steve RaderGUEST
And what that means is that the most successful companies that he found were those that could hold in their strategy to competing priorities.