Chart Your Course

JUNE 30, 2016

It is hands-down the most popular leadership book of all time. He demonstrates that the ability to build trust is THE key leadership competency of the new global economy. The Five Dysfunctions of a Team: A Leadership Fable (2002). Christensen. Listed in no particular order. The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People (1989).

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Human Resources Talent Management Resources Ulrich 100

N2Growth Blog

JUNE 14, 2010

While much has been written about corporate vision, mission, process, leadership, strategy, branding and a variety of other business practices, it is the engineering of these practices to be disruptive that maximizes opportunities. link] LEADERSHIP : Disruptive Business Models – N2Growth Blog « Tech4buziness – Eng [.]

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Business Model Blog Disruptive Innovation Brand 361

N2Growth Blog

JANUARY 13, 2011

Champion : Senior leadership must champion any new idea being adopted. " Regards, Leadership Freak Dan Rockwell [link] Bob MacNeal Mike, Thanks for this helpful post. Senior leadership must champion any new idea being adopted. Actionable : A successful idea cannot remain in a strategic planning state. via n2growth.com [.]

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Blog Innovation Brand Strategic Planning 413

Deming Institute

JANUARY 19, 2017

In Clayton Christensen’s new book, Competing Against Luck , the authors delve into the importance of gaining a deep understanding of what your customers desire. Some are little (pass the time while waiting in line); some are big (find a more fulfilling career). We all have many jobs to be done in our lives.

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Deming Christensen System Innovation 28

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. So, as a new manager, how do you build an authentic and connected leadership presence that has a positive impact on your team and colleagues?

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Management Emotional Intelligence Leadership Drotter 16

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 11, 2012

Reading has a host of benefits for those who wish to occupy positions of leadership and develop into more relaxed, empathetic, and well-rounded people. But I have tried to make all the choices directly relevant to young businesspeople interested in leadership. Recently, I wrote that leaders should be readers. That's a tough question.

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Books Cialdini Christensen Collins 22

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 11, 2012

Reading has a host of benefits for those who wish to occupy positions of leadership and develop into more relaxed, empathetic, and well-rounded people. But I have tried to make all the choices directly relevant to young businesspeople interested in leadership. Recently, I wrote that leaders should be readers. That's a tough question.

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Books Cialdini Christensen Collins 18

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

LDRLB

MAY 26, 2014

In that sense, the Christensen solution has become counterproductive; in fact, it’s become dangerous. It’s not generally a technology problem; it’s a leadership problem. One of the reasons, I think, for that is, like you said, it’s a leadership issue, but it’s also what models are you using. DAVID: Yeah.

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Early Adopters Rogers Disruptive Innovation Innovation 60

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 16, 2012

"Leadership" has changed when a decentralized group of people can take down a government. 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.

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Christensen Business Model Decentralization Innovation 16

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. Celine Schillinger sought to change the leadership landscape of Sanofi, a major pharmaceutical company. If you say we should, let’s do it.

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Innovation Christensen Decisionmaking CTO 12

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 26, 2013

The debate has focused almost entirely on the leadership of innovation. Two other observations can be made about the public autopsy of Ballmer''s career: It may constitute another small way that Steve Jobs left a dent in the universe. Innovation Leadership Leadership transitions' Well, guess what: it does.

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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? But those paths, the ones you learned about in your career offices aren''t the only ones afforded to you.

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Advice Learning-by-Doing Career Open-book 13

Harvard Business Review

JULY 19, 2013

Questions alone might be clever, but as Jeff Dyer, Clayton Christensen, and I found in our research behind The Innovator''s DNA , they rarely produce positive impacts. Catalytic Questioning ensures this essential leadership skill improves over time to unlock even better, more creative solutions. Step 5: Get to work! Find some answers.

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Brainstorming Christensen Disruptive Innovation Innovation 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 25, 2011

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. Looking at it from a " jobs-to-be-done " perspective, a prospective mentee is usually trying to get the functional job done of advancing his career.

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Mentor Christensen Incubator Learning-by-Doing 15

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 1, 2017

In early 2016 some numbers surfaced at a few of the Dorchester Collection’s luxury hotels that caught leadership’s attention: Complaints about our laundry service were on the rise, as was the cost of compensating guests for damage to their clothes. One hotel had to replace a fabulously expensive Givenchy evening gown.

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Hotels Fashion Budgeting Retail 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 8, 2013

While it might have been written as a treatise of what women could be doing to more of to gain more leadership positions in our organizations, and how we would all benefit from that happening, there was something else that stood out for me: it read as a pretty comprehensive list of things that the men have been doing wrong. The end result?

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Career Long-term Christensen Advice 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. One of the reasons for this is that leadership responsibilities begin in earnest at the age of 12.

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