QAspire

JANUARY 17, 2022

Personally, I have seen friends in industries like travel and hospitality whose businesses and hence careers were suddenly disrupted with no where else to go. In our careers, sometimes the best way to move forward is to step back or sideways from our current path. Step back to grow. Growth often involves taking a step back.

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Constraint Market Risk Workshop Disruptive Innovation 172

QAspire

MAY 7, 2017

Our workplace conversations today are dominated by topics like increasing globalization, economic uncertainties, automation, disruptive innovations, social technologies, generational shifts, mobility, people analytics, gig economy and such.

Learning-by-Doing 195

Learning-by-Doing Disruptive Innovation Brand Long-term 195

Coaching Tip

OCTOBER 17, 2013

The Innovative Leader "Out Thinks". Innovation Execution. Advantages of Disadvantages.

Innovation 107

Innovation Self-aware Shaw Disruptive Innovation 107

LDRLB

DECEMBER 15, 2015

She is the author of Disrupt Yourself: Putting the Power of Disruptive Innovation to Work. In this interview, we describe how to upend your career and move into the leadership role you’ve always wanted. Listen below or follow via iTunes or Stitcher. This podcast is supported by Audible.com.

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Disruptive Innovation Christensen Innovation Creativity 60

QAspire

JANUARY 17, 2022

Personally, I have seen friends in industries like travel and hospitality whose businesses and hence careers were suddenly disrupted with no where else to go. In our careers, sometimes the best way to move forward is to step back or sideways from our current path. Step back to grow. Growth often involves taking a step back.

Constraint 91

Constraint Market Risk Workshop Disruptive Innovation 91

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 7, 2012

Disruptive innovators ask the right questions, observe the world like anthropologists, network for novel ideas, and experiment to make things work. For a more detailed look at these skills, see The Innovator's DNA ). Disruptive innovators approach networking in a unique way. Here's how: Step 1.

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Disruptive Innovation Innovation Christensen Long-term 19

Marshall Goldsmith

NOVEMBER 9, 2016

Herminia Ibarra – Thinkers 50 #8 Management Thinker 2015, #1 Leadership Thinker 2013, Professor at INSEAD, best-selling author Working Identity: Unconventional Strategies for Reinventing Your Career. David Peterson – Pioneer executive coach, head of coaching at Google, author Development FIRST and Leader as Coach.

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Disruptive Innovation Executive Coaching Human Resources CEO 70

LDRLB

APRIL 27, 2020

There are a variety of purpose-driven organizations whose sense of meaning and mission are drawn directly from the product offered—they sell a disruptive innovation or sustainably sourced consumer product with zero environmental impact. It’s not about the product, it’s about the company culture.

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Mission Statement Organization Company Business Model 117

Chart Your Course

JUNE 30, 2016

Studies show that a person’s emotional intelligence (the ability to manage one’s own emotions and the emotions of others) is not only more important than their IQ, but the single most important variable in career and life success. This is the book that launched the idea of EQ into the public domain. By David Ulrich.

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Human Resources Talent Management Resources Ulrich 100

Eric Jacobson

OCTOBER 13, 2020

Breakthrough ideas and disruptive innovation stem from a deep understanding of the customer. When it comes to innovation, culture is more important than strategy. By embedding innovation in your organizational culture, you can set yourself up for future wins.

How To 65

How To Handbook Tactics Open-book 65

Eric Jacobson

MARCH 5, 2020

Breakthrough ideas and disruptive innovation stem from a deep understanding of the customer. When it comes to innovation, culture is more important than strategy. By embedding innovation in your organizational culture, you can set yourself up for future wins.

Handbook 65

Handbook Innovation Tactics Open-book 65

Skip Prichard

AUGUST 2, 2019

Technology change is speeding business up and providing an edge for disruptive innovators. It used to be that you could learn the core skills for a career in college and graduate school – think management, accounting, law – and then apply it over forty years.

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Disaggregation McKinsey Skills Gordon 84

LDRLB

APRIL 27, 2020

There are a variety of purpose-driven organizations whose sense of meaning and mission are drawn directly from the product offered—they sell a disruptive innovation or sustainably sourced consumer product with zero environmental impact. It’s not about the product, it’s about the company culture.

Mission Statement 78

Mission Statement Organization Company Business Model 78

LDRLB

MAY 26, 2014

Paul Nunes and I have known each other for many years, and we’ve both been writing about the subject of disruptive innovation from different vantage points and different angles. I felt like those rules as I was reading what sort of makes these big bang disruptive innovations succeed, those rules I think are still in place.

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Early Adopters Rogers Disruptive Innovation Innovation 60

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 22, 2011

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. Time to disrupt myself. We typically define disruption as a low-end product or service that eventually upends an industry.

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Disruptive Innovation Christensen Metrics Innovation 20

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 28, 2012

Whitney Johnson , president and cofounder of Rose Park Advisors, applies Harvard Business School professor Clayton Christensen's concept of disruptive innovation to a creative career path.

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Christensen Disruptive Innovation Career Creativity 17

Roundtable Talk

JUNE 22, 2010

The book shared that winners do ALL 4 of the following activities: Strategy - Team based game plans Execution - Top quartile performance Culture - High performance team Flat Structure – Minimize bureaucracy And that they do ANY 2 of 4 following activities: Talent - Build & grow talented employees Innovation - Disruptive, innovative (..)

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Tips Team Bottom-up Teamwork 34

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 5, 2018

Do you want to shake up your career? In this episode of HBR’s advice podcast, Dear HBR: , Dan and Alison answer your questions with the help of Whitney Johnson , the author of Disrupt Yourself: Putting the Power of Disruptive Innovation to Work. In the interim, make use of anything as a trigger. ”

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Career Disruptive Innovation Long-term Agility 9

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

JANUARY 8, 2014

But there are also entire sectors of the innovation economy that are ceasing to rely on traditional credentials and don’t even bother with the skeumorph of an adapted degree. Career planning Disruptive innovation Education' Designers now show their work on Dribbble or other design posting and review sites.

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Education Disruptive Innovation Software Engineering 15

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 5, 2012

But unless there is some way of protecting people's careers, that's all it is: brave talk. I thought to myself, We need some way of protecting people from the career costs of innovation. But the real world of innovation will remain undone. There is verity in a popular saying: fear is the enemy of innovation.

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Innovation Brainstorming Collins Disruptive Innovation 15

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 14, 2011

Think of Charles Darwin, the ultimate disruptive innovator. In The Innovator's Dilemma , he looked at why companies struggle to deal with radical innovation in their markets. The book introduced the idea of disruptive innovation to a generation of managers. First, ideas are important.

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Blue Ocean Strategy Management Christensen Balanced Scorecard 15

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 31, 2014

One of the first, and most lasting, pieces of career advice I received came from Linda Bush, my first project manager when I was a wee pup working at McKinsey & Company. Identifying the Threat of Disruption. One of the central tenets of disruptive innovation is that companies innovate faster than people’s needs change.

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Innovation Disruptive Innovation Learning-by-Doing Participative 15

Harvard Business Review

JULY 10, 2012

Management Tip Video: Applying Disruptive Innovation to Your Career Path (HBR.org). BONUS BITS: Crash Courses. 10 Minutes on Global Talent Mobility (PwC). 30 Second MBA: What if You Lost the Competition for a Senior Job? Fast Company).

Leadership Development 15

Leadership Development Development Disruptive Innovation Leadership 15

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 30, 2011

That McDonald's or Pret a Manger is less open to disruptive innovation than El Bulli? If you believe any, or all, of those things, then you're not a business sophisticate, you're an innovation snob. Be warned: uppity attitudes undermine companies and careers. Airy — dare I say arrogant?

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Innovation Disruptive Innovation Technology Fashion 15

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 5, 2012

Second, recognize that on-again, off-again innovation is worse than nothing. It sends the signal that these are not the projects that people should bet their careers on. Build it into good people's career paths. then reorganized because this left them vulnerable to disruptive innovation. Set aside a regular budget.

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Process Innovation Diversity Budgeting 19

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 28, 2016

During the last five years of my corporate management career, I had a great deal of leadership development. It’s way more fascinating to discuss disruptive innovation than to talk about how to run a meeting that doesn’t drive attendees crazy. Leadership development is sexier. Well, you know what I mean. Less prosaic.

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Training Development Management Budgeting 15

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 27, 2011

His original business, GetAGreatBoss.com , lets great managers showcase their skills to attract talent and boost their own careers by conducting a 360 review of the manager by his or her staff, and if the results are favorable, he links the results to job ads that the boss is trying to fill, making these job ads far more appealing.

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How To Creativity Innovation Disruptive Innovation 19

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 3, 2012

According to Méndez-García, one of the best models for making sense of a non-linear world is the S-curve , the model we have used to understand the diffusion of disruptive innovations, and which he and I speculate can be used to understand personal disruption — the necessary pivots in our own career paths.

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Learning Curve Market Penetration Disruptive Innovation Kaplan 14

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 27, 2012

This is the essence of what we call "disruptive innovation." Though it didn't deal explicitly with the concept of disruption, it did bring up a concept very important to the disruption of the television industry: ecosystem development.

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Rogers Telecommunications Disruptive Innovation Innovation 16

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 6, 2012

The unsolvable problem that has become the "white whale" of my career's own captain story was posed by Nick Donofrio, IBM's senior vice president of technology (and official protector of innovators) a year before I wrote "Breaking Out." Disruptive Innovation Comes to Health Care. The HBR article was the result.

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Game Theory Open-book Innovation Disruptive Innovation 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? But those paths, the ones you learned about in your career offices aren''t the only ones afforded to you.

Advice 15

Advice Learning-by-Doing Career Open-book 15

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 26, 2013

Ballmer, whose skills were in many ways complementary to Gates'', took the helm of an already massive organization as it entered an era of relentless disruptive innovation by competitors. He managed to hold the stock price on a pretty even keel, but no better than that. Well, guess what: it does.

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Core Competence Innovation Christensen Disruptive Innovation 14

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 11, 2013

Four years ago, Craig Hatkoff, co-founder of the Tribeca Film Festival, approached me about a brainstorm: an event recognizing and celebrating breakthrough innovators. 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.

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Innovation Christensen Decisionmaking CTO 14

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 20, 2011

And most CEOs who talked about using Design Thinking to remake their companies' culture appeared to choose globalization over innovation. The Corporate Elite continued to do what they did most of their careers: increase efficiencies, boost scale, and lower costs to maximize profits. and the level of employment.

Innovation 15

Innovation Supply Chain Offshoring Policies 15

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 17, 2012

SUGAR AND SPICE AND DISRUPTIVE INNOVATION. Wired) The Geography of American’s Who Work From Home (Atlantic Cities) History's Most Famous Serial Career Changers (OnlineCollege.org). Female Leaders Make Startups Successful (Bloomberg Businessweek). BONUS BITS: Please Don't TiKL Me.

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Marketing Rate of Return Letter Disruptive Innovation 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 12, 2011

A prescient call provides career rocket fuel, while the wrong one can be career limiting. Aside from some tough comments on my blog, the long-term repercussions were low. That's pretty much what happens to a pundit who gets it wrong — nothing. Life is tougher for the strategist.

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Press Release Strategy Long-term Video 15