I like this last paragraph for Black Swan and anthropological reasons as contrasted with technology and linear logic. It could be Ford is less precisely right and more hedged against being narrowly more wrong (hedged). The motivation for this thought has at it’s roots in a premise that is unquestionably suspect — the idea that culture is not only real but persistent (in the same way all the cells in our body change but we come back the same way). Ford’s extended production (and profits) of the model “T” eroded in the 1920s as superior technology from innovators reduced sales. Ford’s delayed introduction of the model “A” put them on a self imposed adaptation blitz that eventually lead to the 1935 “Model 48” which earned them with the highest volume selling brand car in America in 1935 (820,000 units … a decline of from the peak of about 2 million Model Ts sold per year in it’s peak of popularity). I find this odd sojourn from “top” to “challenged” to “top” interesting because it involves the “not in forecast” (The Great Depression) and the scramble of change that produced leadership at odds with the general idea of the innovation dilemma. It would be the often true but rarely used on a test correct answer of “choice [D: None of the above]”.