The mantra of top business minds (at least since Tom Peters made the call) and leading business schools has been: "Focus on your core business"; that is to say, on your core competencies. Diversions were to be avoided at all costs.
Now Adam Harting warns, in a Forbes article, that doing so is a sure route to oblivion. Being nimble-footed -- able to shift gears as quickly as rapidly changing fields of play demand -- is what is called for; better still, being able to juggle several balls of commitment and focus at the same time, to multi-task, to diversify activity, to hedge risk and even to anticipate the future -- as Google seems to be (as AIG was not) good at.
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