State of mind

[A new era is only a new state of mind](http://www.asymco.com/2011/04/23/a -new-era-is-only-a-new-state-of-mind)

Its hard for companies to let go of their past successes

What makes a company successful with innovation long term is to always keep innovating. Often coming up with the next big thing means damaging the old thing. That’s hard to do for many companies so they don’t do it and somebody else does. This is why great companies end up as formerly-great companies.