This is an amazing lesson for business owners about looking at the alternative perspective of advantages versus disadvantages. Goliath may have been a person suffering from a hormone disorder, which accounts for his size. This same hormone disorder caused his sight to fail. The sling shot of the boy David, was in fact a deadly weapon in his skilled hands, wielding the power of a modern 45 calibre gun. When viewed like this we can see that this is not really a story of an underdog coming out on top despite the odds, but rather reads like the slaying of a disabled person my a ruthless mercenary. Malcom Gladwell tells of how big businesses are in a way handicapping themselves for example through the pursuit of processes such as Mergers and Acquisitions, when in fat agility and slightness might serve them better.