But it can also do the more careful navigation on rough terrain where we need to plan really one foothold after the next.
"A disruptive innovation, by definition, starts from one of those two footholds," Christensen says.
In recent years, however, Mr. Waxman has bounced from one project to another, never seeming to get a foothold.
Which may be partly why the foothold that African-Americans manage to gain in Hollywood from one generation to the next can seem so fragile, and progress so easily reversible.
The classic coming-out narrative describes how the central character makes a leap from one identity to another, into a different, freer life, while the classic immigrant novel depicts what it's like to straddle two worlds, old and new, with a foothold in each.
As you see from the progression above, Trump supporters, including many Evangelicals, have slowly accepted a little bigotry, a little lack of compassion, giving the Devil of hate just one small foothold at a time.
Salyut, Mir, Skylab, and the ISS were seen as a step back because the public perceived that we were retracting from our foothold on the Moon.
Rio Tinto P.L.C., the London-based mining concern, offered to buy out its minority partner Ashton Mining Ltd. for 612 million Australian dollars, or $350 million, in an attempt to keep its rival De Beers from gaining a foothold in one of the world's largest diamond mines.
We believe this work will be one of footholds toward achieving various whole-body behaviors of humanoid robots, especially carrying behaviors.
