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The Illusion of Innovation

Leading Blog

Clayton Christensen wrote, The worst place to develop a new business model is from within your existing business model. To correct this, they try to repurpose their existing operating systemdesigned for efficient, scaled executionto do something it was never designed to do: operate with a degree of inefficiency to create learning.

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Christensen on How to Measure Your Life

LDRLB

With that I picked up Clayton Christensen’s How Will You Measure Your Lif e. Christensen is one of the giant minds behind strategy and innovation. For each chapter, Christensen begins with an explanation of a theory and outlines it’s application to the business world. David Burkus is the editor of LDRLB.

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Lead from the Future

Leading Blog

Sometimes they do invent something that has the potential to be transformative, but they develop it within a system that is defined and constrained by the facts of the present —like a spaceship in a Jules Verne story with lace curtains hanging over its portholes, and a cockpit fitted out with gas lamps, Persian rugs, and overstuffed armchairs.”.

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LeadershipNow 140: January 2020 Compilation

Leading Blog

Here are a selection of tweets from January 2020 that you don't want to miss: Teaching By Heart: A Guide For Great #Leadership This It is a remarkable book and a perfect means to refocus your leadership development this year. Clayton Christensen Rocked The World Gently from @JohnBaldoni. How To Invest In Startups by @sama Sam Altman.

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LeadershipNow 140: July 2012 Compilation

Leading Blog

Bill_George: Fellow HBS professor Clay Christensen shares 15 business theories to improve your life. Developing Trust by @LeadingSolution. Like us on Facebook for additional leadership and personal development ideas. @RosabethKanter: Doing the job well is just the start. Six Extras that build influence & leadership.

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Revealing Leadership Insights From Thinkers50

Tanveer Naseer

And, the winner of the 2013 Thinkers50, Clay Christensen, now sees his ideas of disruptive innovation used and applied by managers in their relentless quest for competitive advantage. Also making the list is Wang Shi, founder and chairman of Vanke, the world’s largest residential home developer.

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Why do so many leadership development programs fail?

Great Results Team Building

Way back in January 2014, in an issue of McKinsey Quarterly , a group of researchers attempted to answer this question: “Why do so many leadership development programs fail?” ” They summarized their finding into the four main issues that led to a lack of results in most leadership development programs.