First Friday Book Synopsis

MARCH 12, 2012

Clayton Christensen, Harvard Business School professor and the world’s most influential management guru according to the Thinkers50, lays out his landmark theory about disruptive innovation. Christensen is the Robert and Jane Cizik Professor of Business Administration at the Harvard Business School. To view it, please click here.

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Leading Blog

APRIL 2, 2021

In The Innovator’s DNA , Clay Christensen identified five attributes that correlate closely with Future-Back Leadership: associating, questioning, observing, experimenting, and networking. A leader described the left side as “serious, disciplined, and self-critical” and the right side as “aspiration, optimism, and risk orientation.”.

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First Friday Book Synopsis

OCTOBER 2, 2016

At the November First Friday Book Synopsis, Randy Mayeux will present Competing Against Luck: The Story of Innovation and Customer Choice, (New York: Harper, 2016)written by Clayton Christensen as the lead author, along with three others (Taddy Hall, Karen Dillon, and David S. The book focuses on marketing and consumer behavior.

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Leading Blog

JULY 31, 2012

Bill_George: Fellow HBS professor Clay Christensen shares 15 business theories to improve your life. @RosabethKanter: Doing the job well is just the start. Six Extras that build influence & leadership. MarkDMcKinney: How sales people really feel! Find out when your creative and productive geniuses are at the best during the workday.

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First Friday Book Synopsis

OCTOBER 6, 2016

Subtitled The Twelve Technological Forces That Will Shape our Future, Mr. Kelly, one of the founders of Wired Magazine, knows what he is talking… Read More Just to whet your appetite… book selections for upcoming months – (Clayton Christensen; Robert Cialdini; Tim Ferris; and other authors).

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Lead Change Blog

FEBRUARY 19, 2020

As the co-founder of a boutique investment firm with Clayton Christensen, Whitney Johnson came to realize that the frameworks of disruption not only apply to innovation and investing, but to individuals. .): The act of using a practice employed by companies — wherein a product deemed inferior by the market leader (Amazon v. Borders, Uber v.

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Coaching Tip

MAY 10, 2012

Christensen: How do you keep high achievers from being disrupted in their own lives? After Professor Christensen's heart attack, which required immediate stenting, and treatment for follicular lymphoma, during the first half of 2010, there were some who wished he'd slow down; those close to him knew he wouldn't.

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N2Growth Blog

JUNE 14, 2010

Disruptive Innovation (per the Christensen model) generally takes place in an industry dominated by an oligopoly and having an unserved segment ( towards the lower end in terms of profit margins and product capability) which attains visibility as a result of technological expansion in what is most of the time, a non-related field.

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CEO Blog

AUGUST 14, 2011

I read a great book by Clay Christensen , Jeff Dyer and Hal Gregersen called The Innovator's DNA - Mastering the Five Skills of Disruptive Innovators. Christensen is one of the great thinkers of our time. We are having a lovely rain day today. The gardens need it.

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Lead Change Blog

JULY 3, 2019

As president and co-founder of Rose Park Advisors’ Disruptive Innovation Fund with Clayton Christensen, Whitney Johnson utilized the theory of disruptive innovation to invest in publicly traded stocks and private early stage companies.

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Leading Blog

MARCH 6, 2019

Efosa Ojomo, Research Fellow, Clayton Christensen Institute. ? If you push solutions onto a problem effects may be temporary and short-lived. The power of pull uses internal capabilities and create long-lasting impact. Leadership is a distributed capability throughout the organization. David Ulrich, Professor, University of Michigan. ?

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LDRLB

DECEMBER 10, 2012

How Will You Measure Your Life by Clay Christensen, James Allworth & Karen Murphy. Clay Christensen new book helps build that foundation by taking well-research business concepts and outlining how to apply them to your own life. If you haven’t there’s still time left in 2012 to dig into these great books. Leadership.

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Mills Scofield

DECEMBER 6, 2013

Clay Christensen Culture Huffington Post Innovation John Hagel Leadership Networking Top 100 Twitter Vala Afshar' I can''t believe I''m on the same list as John Hagel and so many other famous, wise people!! Thank you, Vala Afshar , for this honor of being on your Huffington Post list of 100 Must Follows.

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Art Petty

FEBRUARY 25, 2020

I'm referencing Harvard's Clayton Christensen, perhaps best known for his thinking and books focused on The Innovator's Dilemma. Wally Bock and I connected on the latest episode of our podcast to talk about Christensen and his books. The world of business lost a giant thinker recently, who by all accounts was a fabulous person.

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Engaging Leader

SEPTEMBER 15, 2014

Jeff Dyer’s previous book The Innovator’s DNA, co-authored with by Clayton Christensen and Hal Gregersen, is a bestseller, has already been published in more than 13 languages, and won the 2011 Innovation Book of the Year Award from Chartered Management Institute.

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First Friday Book Synopsis

FEBRUARY 3, 2014

Christensen. We know of the value of disruptive change, described best by Clayton M. Here’s the description (from Wikipedia): A disruptive innovation is an innovation that helps create a new market and value network, and eventually disrupts an existing market and value network (over a few years or decades), displacing an earlier technology.

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First Friday Book Synopsis

OCTOBER 9, 2016

On Friday, I presented my synopsis of The Inevitable by Kevin Kelly, and my colleague presented his synopsis of CHAOS MONKEYS by… Read More Pre-Suasion by Robert Cialdini; Competing Against Luck by Clayton Christensen – Coming for the November 4 First Friday Book Synopsis.

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First Friday Book Synopsis

SEPTEMBER 26, 2013

So, how do you stop and think in this too-much-information-to-assimilate-all-at-once world? You spend a day – a full day – focused on one book. And, what books do you focus on for a full day? Books that have “stood the test of time.” Not necessarily “really old books,” but books that have been around long […]. Randy''s blog entries'

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Next Level Blog

MAY 26, 2020

Innovation – The late, great Harvard Business School professor Clayton Christensen was famous for coming up with and exploring the idea of disruptive innovation – the impact a small upstart company can have on an industry when it disrupts the competitive landscape by doing something radically new that works.

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LDRLB

AUGUST 4, 2011

Clayton Christensen is the genius behind “disruptive innovation” and The Innovator’s Dilemma. Innovation christensen innovation university' In doing so, I’m desperately trying to mesh together the positives of both while leaving the negatives behind. As such, this video (and book) caught my idea.

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Leading Blog

OCTOBER 31, 2015

MIT: New research fundamentally challenges Clay Christensen's theory of disruptive innovation. by Chris Patten via @wef. 5 Ways Listening Like an Anthropologist Will Make You a Better Leader by Karin Hurt @LetsGrowLeaders. How to Manage Your Ego by Anne Perschel @bizshrink.

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LDRLB

AUGUST 22, 2012

Clayton Christensen. @ProfBeechler. Michael Tushman. Professor, Harvard Business School. MichaelTushman. Innovation. Richard Florida. Professor, Rotman School of Management. Richard_Florida. Professor, Harvard Business School. claychristensen. Chair, Åbo Akademi University. Assistant Professor, Harvard Business School. klakhani.

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LDRLB

AUGUST 5, 2013

Clayton Christensen. @terriscandura. Schon Beechler. ProfBeechler. Terri Linhart. Bethel College. TerryLinhart. Innovation. Richard Florida. Rotman School of Management. Richard_Florida. Harvard Business School. claychristensen. Calestous Juma. Harvard University. Åbo Akademi University. Cyndi Burnett. Buffalo State College.

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Jesse Lyn Stoner Blog

JUNE 13, 2013

Whitney Johnson – Co-founder of Rose Park Advisors, Clayton Christensen’s investment firm, and author of Dare-Dream-Do. Ken Blanchard – Author of The One Minute Manager and over 30 other leadership books. Jim Kouzes and Barry Posner – Authors of The Leadership Challenge. Doug Conant – Former CEO of Campbell Soup.

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LDRLB

JULY 17, 2012

In the book, the Innovator’s DNA , Clayton Christensen and colleagues list five behaviors that characterize innovative leaders: associational thinking, questioning, observing, networking and experimenting.

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First Friday Book Synopsis

OCTOBER 12, 2011

COMPLIMENTARY LIVE AUDIO WEBINAR Co-conductors: Clay Christensen and Hal Gregersen Renowned innovation expert and HBS Professor, Clay Christensen, and Hal Gregersen, INSEAD Senior Affiliate Professor, share secrets to cultivating [.]. Here are the details.

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First Friday Book Synopsis

JUNE 18, 2011

Christensen and Michael E. In a previous work, The Innovator’s Dilemma, Christensen [.]. The Innovator’s Solution: Creating and Sustaining Successful Growth Clayton M. Raynor Harvard Business Press (2003) Note: I read and then reviewed this “business classic” when it was first published and recently re-read it.

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First Friday Book Synopsis

OCTOBER 15, 2013

Bob''s blog entries 3M Andrew King Citizens of Dublin Columbia Business School Publishing Design Management Institute (DMI) University of Virginia''s Daren School of Business IBM FiDJI Here''s a blueprint for deploying design thinking to embed a more creative approach to problem solving Intuit Jeanne Liedtka Karen Christensen Kevin Bennett MeYou Health (..)

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Leadership Freak

SEPTEMBER 29, 2016

In an article titled, Clayton Christensen’s “How Will You Measure Your Life?, Christensen wrote, … life is just one unending stream… Continue reading → Everything becomes distraction and reaction when you lose control of you calendar.

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Jesse Lyn Stoner Blog

JUNE 27, 2013

Whitney Johnson is a leading thinker on driving innovation via personal disruption and a co-founder of Clayton Christensen’s investment firm Rose Park Advisors.

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First Friday Book Synopsis

NOVEMBER 26, 2014

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First Friday Book Synopsis

JUNE 20, 2013

Christensen of The Innovator’s Solution, which was on The Wall Street Journal and The New York Times bestseller lists, and […]. Christensen Financial Times Michael E. In his research and client work he explores corporate strategy, innovation, and growth across a wide variety of industries.

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First Friday Book Synopsis

NOVEMBER 6, 2013

Bob''s blog entries 3M Andrew King Citizens of Dublin Columbia Business School Publishing Design Management Institute (DMI) University of Virginia''s Daren School of Business IBM FiDJI Here''s a blueprint for deploying design thinking to embed a more creative approach to problem solving Intuit Jeanne Liedtka Karen Christensen Kevin Bennett MeYou Health (..)

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First Friday Book Synopsis

JUNE 16, 2011

Christensen HarperCollins (2003) A brilliant analysis of a multi-dimensional paradox Having just re-read this “business classic,&# I admire it even more now than I did when it was first published. In his Introduction, Christensen makes his objective crystal clear: “This book is [.].

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Management Excellence

FEBRUARY 25, 2020

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First Friday Book Synopsis

JUNE 28, 2011

Here is an excerpt from a special article co-authored by Clayton Christensen and Henry Eyring featured by CNN online. To read the complete article and check out a wealth of other resources, please click here. * * * • CNN.com’s op-eds on college ranged from calling it a waste of time to high praise • [.].

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First Friday Book Synopsis

MAY 16, 2013

Christensen Frederick F. Bob''s blog entries " "Marketing Myopia “Harvard Business Essentials” “Harvard Business Review on” Bob Markey Clayton M. Revised and Expanded Edition): How Net Promoter Companies Thrive in a Customer-Driven World Theodore Levitt'

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