The more interdependent the choices in an industry, the more rugged its landscape: local peaks multiply, incremental improvement stops working, and organisations that learn fast on their current peak fall into competency traps.

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Local peaks limit the effectiveness of processes of incremental experiential search and result in competency traps

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Rapid competence learning may cause an inherently inferior alternative appear to be preferred

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the species sitting at the lowest fitness peak has the smallest valley