> Drucker was a critic of the idea that small firms are more innovative than large firms.

That's nice to sell a book, but I see no need to read that pablum. A large established company vs a startup (<50 employees) is night and day.

Having worked for decades in the "industry", which is a conglomeration of all industry, an Amazon team pushes a production button style change and it goes on the quarterly release notes with fanfare, while small companies are iterating daily. JPMorgan, Experian, Cambia...you hear VPs talking about meetings with congress critters, but it's largely to pull blood from stone, not to make a better product. That would be incidental, if ever, as long as the metrics they are fed show an incline.