Silicon Valley firms don’t just create technology. Over the past 30 years they’ve invented a new way of running companies, what author Andrew McAfee calls the “Geek Way.” It’s comprised of four norms that increasingly define successful businesses: Speed, ownership, science, and openness. Companies that resist this recipe risk being left behind.
The digital transformation of the business world has created two major challenges for today’s incumbents — but they’re only aware of one of them.