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Disruptive Business Models | N2Growth Blog

N2Growth Blog

With the continued rapid development of technology taking the concept of globalization and turning it into hard reality facing businesses of all sizes, it is time for executives and entrepreneurs to examine their current business models from a disruptive perspective.

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Clayton Christensen: What I’ll Miss About Andy Grove

Harvard Business Review

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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Ideas Don't Equal Innovation | N2Growth Blog

N2Growth Blog

This may be the first time in my career that I've been accused of taking a standard management approach.:) Moore and Christensen tell us what to do, but their prescription is rarely followed. If someone at the C-suite level is against the new idea, it will likely die on the cutting-room floor. via n2growth.com [.]

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Jobs to be Done

Deming Institute

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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0511 | Larry Downes: Full Transcript

LDRLB

I think our principal observation was that what was happening was that disruptive innovations driven by largely information technology but lots of other technologies on the fringe here that are getting ready to exhibit the same kind of characteristics were entering the market in kind of this better and cheaper way.

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Lessons from a Career, Interrupted

Harvard Business Review

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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11 Books Every Young Leader Must Read

Harvard Business Review

Invariably, many people will think some of the choices are poor or that the list is incomplete, but I hope it can serve as a start for young business leaders looking for literature to help them chart their careers. Christensen, The Innovator's Dilemma: When New Technologies Cause Great Firms to Fail.

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