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    • A British parliamentary committee assessed whether Edison's light bulb woul

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    "Success is one of the leading causes of failure," writes consultant Jim Clemmer in his new book, Pathways to Performance (Macmillan Canada). Current market and customer research creates tunnel vision, causing companies to overlook the potential of new ideas. Mr. Clemmer's examples from history:

    • When trains were first developed, the King of Prussia confidently predicted: "No one will pay good money to get from Berlin to Potsdam in one hour when he can ride his horse there in one day for free."

    • In 1903, the president of Michigan Savings Bank gave this market advice to Horace Rackham, Henry Ford's lawyer: "The horse is here to stay. The automobile is only a fad, a novelty."

    • A British parliamentary committee assessed whether Edison's light bulb would

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    and customer research creates tunnel vision, causing companies to overlook the potential of new ideas. Mr. Clemmer's examples from history:

    • When trains were first developed, the King of Prussia confidently predicted: "No one will pay good money to get from Berlin to Potsdam in one hour when he can ride his horse there in one day for free."

    • In 1903, the president of Michigan Savings Bank gave this market advice to Horace Rackham, Henry Ford's lawyer: "The horse is here to stay. The automobile is only a fad, a novelty."

    • A British parliamentary committee assessed whether Edison's light bulb woul

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    ains were first developed, the King of Prussia confidently predicted: "No one will pay good money to get from Berlin to Potsdam in one hour when he can ride his horse there in one day for free."

    • In 1903, the president of Michigan Savings Bank gave this market advice to Horace Rackham, Henry Ford's lawyer: "The horse is here to stay. The automobile is only a fad, a novelty."

    • A British parliamentary committee assessed whether Edison's light bulb woul

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    his horse there in one day for free."

    • In 1903, the president of Michigan Savings Bank gave this market advice to Horace Rackham, Henry Ford's lawyer: "The horse is here to stay. The automobile is only a fad, a novelty."

    • A British parliamentary committee assessed whether Edison's light bulb woul

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    r: "The horse is here to stay. The automobile is only a fad, a novelty."

    • A British parliamentary committee assessed whether Edison's light bulb would ever be useful. They concluded it was "unworthy of the attention of practical or scientific men."

    • Edison himself made these market assessments: "The phonograph is not of any commercial value" and "the radio craze will die out in time."

    • In 1946, Darryl Zanuck, then head of 20th Century Fox, predicted: "Video (television) won't hold any market it captures after the first six months. People will soon get tired of staring at a plywood box every night."

    • News item in an 1868 New York paper: "A man has been arrested in New York for attempting to extort funds from ignorant and superstitious people by

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