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 Books 28

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 24, 2016

But this confidence served as a platform that allowed Andy to learn important things from every person — even Clayton Christensen. In his long career at Intel and at Stanford Business School, he passed along his deep wisdom with uncommon generosity, touching generations of managers and leaders. He was confident in his abilities.

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Christensen Incentives Price Course 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 5, 2012

It's not news to anyone who's looked for a job recently that the days of a monolithic career spent at one company or in one well-defined field are over. Many of us have had to — willingly or out of necessity — rethink our career paths. At six years old, I knew what I wanted to be: a designer. I started out designing cars.

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Career Christensen Disruptive Innovation Travel 8

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. Capturing the Innovation Mind-Set at Bally Technologies. If you say we should, let’s do it. In 2010, the first year, the event was fledgling, but charming.

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Innovation Christensen Decisionmaking CTO 15

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 24, 2014

Yes, digital technology enables a lot of unbundling. I had worked for several businesses during my career by that time that had become conglomerates, some fairly large, and then had divested themselves of various businesses. Andreessen: I think a lot of it is based on the underlying technology change. Why is this? HBR: Right.

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How To Technology Industry Venture Capitalist 19

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 26, 2013

It''s a point that Clay Christensen put his own twist on with The Innovator''s Dilemma : Even when leaders know intellectually that groundbreaking innovation is imperative, they find themselves investing in incremental refinements to please their most sophisticated customers, and leave themselves wide open to disruption by upstarts.

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Core Competence Christensen Innovation Disruptive Innovation 14

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 19, 2013

I never intended to disrupt my career over and again, eventually becoming a free agent. When my husband was on the hunt for an academic job after completing his PhD, his choices were Boston and San Antonio, both of which had the potential to cut my Wall Street career short. Certainly that has been the case for me.

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MBO Learning Curve Christensen Trends 14

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. As one data point, while something in the range of 1.9% of the U.S. Fourth, a focus on developing leaders.

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Management Covey Ulrich Christensen 13

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. Becoming a new manager is an important leadership passage in your career. Be clear and direct, always with respect.

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Management Emotional Intelligence Leadership Drotter 16

Harvard Business Review

MAY 7, 2015

But they worry about “flexibility stigma”—the likelihood that they’ll be labeled less than fully committed to work if they avail themselves of arrangements like flex time and paternity leave — and as a result suffer negative job and career consequences. For the U.S. This is the flexibility stigma at work.)

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Survey Christensen Globalization Travel 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 11, 2015

” That would neither be in line with our primary objectives, nor fit our consultants’ career expectations. Christensen, Dina Wang, and Derek van Bever predicted the disruption of elite consulting firms. If we accepted all such requests, we would end up with 30 “chiefs of staff” or “operations leads.”

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Consultative Team How To McKinsey 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 4, 2014

The web did not invent community-driven brands – just think of Harley Davidson — but technology has surely made the strategy more popular. While digital technology can empower social initiatives, they are essentially human endeavors. These days, it’s pretty easy to interact with consumers directly. Yet that’s exactly the problem.

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Media Marketing Strategy Groupthink Kaplan 10