Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 25, 2014

The financial risk of a career in entrepreneurship is the chance of spending 20 years in startups with nothing to show for it — neither money nor an impact on the world. Develop deep expertise — your best risk-mitigation strategy . Lean Product Development and Customer Development processes) decreases the chance of a startup’s failure.

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Career Company IPO Christensen 10

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 7, 2012

For example, an executive in his mid-thirties and in a career transition began by asking "How can I make a bucket of money?" Several years ago Clayton Christensen (author of The Innovator's Dilemma ) and colleagues at Innosight coined the phrase "jobs-to-be-done" as part of a methodology they use to build new billion dollar businesses.

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Disruptive Innovation Innovation Christensen Long-term 19

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 26, 2012

My colleague, Harvard Professor Clayton Christensen, addressed this topic in his HBR article, How Will You Measure Your Life? Clay observed that few people, if any, intend at the outset of their career to behave dishonestly and hurt others. But then, Christensen says, they started making exceptions to the rules "just this once.".

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Christensen Self-aware Short-term Long-term 15

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 25, 2011

While it's written from my perspective, he was central to the development of the idea. An engineer, designer, serial entrepreneur, investor, and researcher, he has developed 1,000+ products/services and has collaborated with Clay Christensen at HBS for more than 15 years. Drive = How motivated is the mentee?

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Mentor Christensen Incubator Learning-by-Doing 17

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 4, 2015

Everyone aspires to have purpose or meaning in their career but how do you actually do that? Here are principles you can follow to find a career — and a specific job —­ you don’t just enjoy, but love. Christensen. What the Experts Say. ” But rarely are those the things that translate to satisfaction.

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Career How To Finance Case Study 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 17, 2012

Consider the following examples: The #1 Management Thinker on the Thinkers 50 list is Clay Christensen , Harvard Business School professor and author of The Innovator's Dilemma , which introduced the idea of disruptive innovation. Fourth, a focus on developing leaders. As one data point, while something in the range of 1.9% of the U.S.

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Management Covey Ulrich Christensen 13

Harvard Business Review

MAY 20, 2013

In a world of layoffs, outsourcing, and industry disruption, the only "career insurance" you can get is through figuring out the answer to one particular question: how can you make yourself truly valuable professionally? Those paths were developed by people who rely on process and rules to tame the chaos that is life. Maxwell Wessel.

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Advice Learning-by-Doing Career Open-book 15

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 8, 2017

One of the most exciting and — sometimes anxiety-producing transitions in a career — comes when you move from being an individual contributor to becoming a manager. Help connect work deliverables or professional development to what’s happening at the organizational level. Don’t dilute your message.

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Management Emotional Intelligence Leadership Drotter 16

N2Growth Blog

JANUARY 13, 2011

In order for your enterprise to turn an idea into a monetizing and/or value creating event you should develop a strategic plan that attempts to measure the idea against the following 15 elements: 1. It should be developed as a solution to a problem or to exploit an opportunity. via n2growth.com [.]

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Blog Innovation Brand Strategic Planning 413

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 11, 2015

Like any firm in need of business development, we build relationships with executives across the company, and pitch proposals. ” That would neither be in line with our primary objectives, nor fit our consultants’ career expectations. Win on merit. Our group welcomes the competition. Exceed client expectations.

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Consultative Team How To McKinsey 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 23, 2015

This doesn’t necessarily mean setting up a department, but at the very least develop a set of criteria by which to judge ideas and have suggestions for how the best ideas can be acted on. But inside most companies, working on something that “fails” commercially carries significant stigma, if not outright career risk.

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Innovation Company Six Sigma Constraint 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 1, 2017

By diving into the data, we were able to dramatically reduce customer dissatisfaction, increase customer loyalty, and develop new, differentiating service offerings. Figuring Out What Our Customers Wanted. Fashion and clothing were central to the guest experience — much more so than we had realized.

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Hotels Fashion Budgeting Retail 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 11, 2016

Renowned management thinker Clay Christensen recommends spending time formulating the right questions. But forming broad, deep relationships within your team and throughout the organization can help you manage your current responsibilities while also boosting personal development. Ask questions — good ones.

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Critical Success Factor Ryan Christensen Advice 8

LDRLB

MAY 26, 2014

In that sense, the Christensen solution has become counterproductive; in fact, it’s become dangerous. If it’s a Kickstarter kind of situation, they may be funding, actually, the development of the product before you’ve even put pen to paper. Because when these innovations show up, they are better and cheaper right from the start.

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Early Adopters Rogers Disruptive Innovation Open-book 60

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 22, 2011

I had worked for over a decade to develop relationships with Latin American business leaders, several of whom were on Forbes' billionaire list. Notwithstanding the considerable career and financial (I am the primary breadwinner) risks involved, it was time to leave my comfortable perch and become an entrepreneur. STOP IT.".

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Disruptive Innovation Christensen Metrics Innovation 20

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 19, 2012

The obvious targets were people in the field of innovation — those working in strategy, R&D, business development, and entrepreneurship. My own publisher, HBS Press, published two the very same month as my book — one of them co-authored by heavyweight Clay Christensen. In response, I usually tell the following story.

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Succession Diversity Open-book Innovation 21

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 16, 2012

Communities of practice, where they share a common career or field of business, will extend your offer because it extends their expertise (like McAfee mavens ). Many of you know of Clay Christensen's iconic work the Innovators Dilemma. Everything. Disrupting How We Work. How does this lead to disruption?

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Christensen Business Model Decentralization Innovation 19

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 4, 2014

After a successful career as a corporate consultant, he became the Director of Economic Development for Rhode Island, a cabinet level position, where he saw the opportunity to put his ideas into action and create innovation at scale. American Express has developed “Small Business Saturday.” The contrast is stark.

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Media Marketing Strategy Groupthink Kaplan 10

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 11, 2013

When I suggested to Clayton Christensen that we partner with Hatkoff to create the Tribeca Disruptive Innovation Awards , Clay’s response was : I trust you Whitney. Today, she’s the Head of Stakeholder Engagement for their in-development Dengue Fever vaccine — one of Sanofi’s largest business initiatives.

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Innovation Christensen Decisionmaking CTO 15