How Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang’s success discredits ‘stick to your knitting’ leadership advice

A key lesson advocated in the 1980s management bestseller In Search of Excellence advised leaders to “stick with your knitting” and remain “only with the businesses you know best.” That insularity may have hurt adaptiveness a generation ago and is surely not the wisdom for the AI generation. Two weeks ago, Nvidia founder Jensen Huang revealed to 175 top CEOs across industries how he tossed out his business plans not once but twice to embrace disruptive new advances on the frontiers of technology...