N2Growth Blog

JUNE 14, 2010

While much has been written about corporate vision, mission, process, leadership, strategy, branding and a variety of other business practices, it is the engineering of these practices to be disruptive that maximizes opportunities. link] LEADERSHIP : Disruptive Business Models – N2Growth Blog « Tech4buziness – Eng [.]

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Engaging Leader

SEPTEMBER 15, 2014

It presents a method for leveraging a set of tools emerging from lean start-up, design thinking, and agile software development. The new book The Innovator''s Method: Bringing the Lean Start-up into Your Organization, by Nathan Furr and Jeff Dyer, is a leader’s guide to validating new ideas, refining them, and bringing them to market.

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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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Joseph Lalonde

JANUARY 3, 2015

Clayton Christensen, a Harvard Professor says that only few people tend to hurt others and be dishonest in the initial stages of their career. However, as the time passes by and they climb the leadership ladder, they start making assumptions to the rules and their definition of success changes.

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Leading Blog

OCTOBER 31, 2015

The Real Leadership Lessons of Steve Jobs via HBR. MIT: New research fundamentally challenges Clay Christensen's theory of disruptive innovation. Mark Leslie: Putting the “We” in Leadership via @StanfordBiz. Mark Leslie: Putting the “We” in Leadership via @StanfordBiz. 29 Lessons from the Past 29 years by @pauljsohn.

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Mike Cardus

NOVEMBER 8, 2013

Hjørland & Sejer Christensen, 2002). Definition of Relevance : Something (A) is relevant to a task (T) if it increases the likelihood of accomplishing the goal (G), which is implied by T. 1 = What is relevant to people on the team. 1: Explain & explore the skill sets and why each person was chosen to be on this team.

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Lead Change Blog

DECEMBER 29, 2015

Perhaps it is some combination of them, some attainable format for effective leadership that requires work, certainly, but that also works. Here they are: Daniel Pink – In 2015, London-based Thinkers 50 named him, alongside Michael Porter and Clayton Christensen, as one of the top 10 business thinkers in the world.

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Management Excellence

FEBRUARY 25, 2020

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Skip Prichard

SEPTEMBER 20, 2020

Only those who are able to reinvent themselves, imagining new solutions, and developing new products and services to be relevant in the future will be poised to thrive. Who better to quote in this instance than the late, great, Clayton Christensen who famously answered this question in his book The Innovator’s Dilemma.

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The Horizons Tracker

FEBRUARY 22, 2022

One of the more interesting applications has been “StockCity”, which was developed by Fidelity International to allow traders and investors to traverse a fully 3D virtual city, with buildings representing each stock and complete with pertinent data about that company.

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Strategy Driven

JUNE 29, 2016

How do organizations achieve longevity, the kind of longevity that survives long past the founder or any particular leader or leadership team? On reflection, though, I find that the evidence does not support competitive advantage as a path to longevity. Resistance from the Customer. The customers are in the drivers seat, no doubt about it.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 11, 2012

Reading has a host of benefits for those who wish to occupy positions of leadership and develop into more relaxed, empathetic, and well-rounded people. But I have tried to make all the choices directly relevant to young businesspeople interested in leadership. Recently, I wrote that leaders should be readers.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 11, 2012

Reading has a host of benefits for those who wish to occupy positions of leadership and develop into more relaxed, empathetic, and well-rounded people. But I have tried to make all the choices directly relevant to young businesspeople interested in leadership. Recently, I wrote that leaders should be readers.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 22, 2011

Learn how to master the art of the performance review: define job responsibilities, set goals, assess performance, provide recognition, and create development plans. By Jeff Dyer, Hal Gregersen, and Clay Christensen. The Innovator's DNA shows readers how to develop these core skills and use them in combination to generate new ideas.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 8, 2017

At this juncture, what you think, what you say, and how you show up — in effect, your leadership presence — can have a direct impact on those you are now leading and managing for the first time. Set a leadership values-based goal. Leadership presence is therefore an “and/both” versus an “either/or.”

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 15, 2012

But you know, my leadership team is smart. Academics offer up at least three answers: Clayton Christensen asserts that a single organization can't house two competing systems; companies seeking to drive disruptive growth therefore need to create spinoff organizations. That iteration-itis post you wrote really hit home," she said.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 13, 2014

As Clayton Christensen likes to note , the primary job of leadership today is to “source, assemble, and ship numbers.” Thought leaders like Christensen, Roger Martin , Michael Porter , and Steve Denning have all argued that shareholder value has been exposed as a flawed paradigm. Innovation Leadership Strategy'

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 26, 2012

My colleague, Harvard Professor Clayton Christensen, addressed this topic in his HBR article, How Will You Measure Your Life? But then, Christensen says, they started making exceptions to the rules "just this once.". The practice of mindful leadership gives you tools to measure and manage your life as you're living it.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 8, 2014

In the The Capitalists Dilemma, Clay Christensen and Derek van Bever suggest that leaders have been trained and socialized to their role as capitalists, and thus come to rely too heavily on familiar and traditional finance principles. Human resources Leadership Talent management'

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 24, 2013

The good news is that millennial men are changing the way they define leadership and demanding work that fits around their families. According to Clay Christensen and his coauthors Dina Wang and Derek van Bever, the strategy consulting industry is about to blow up the same way the legal world just did.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 2, 2011

Editor's note: This post is part of a three-week series examining innovation in health care, published in partnership with the Advanced Leadership Initiative at Harvard University. Precise definition of the problem, in this and in every industry, is a prerequisite to the development of a predictably effective solution.

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

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 17, 2012

For Clayton Christensen, this is a basic flaw of incumbency. Steve Jobs, influenced by Christensen, was keenly aware of the innovator's dilemma. Firms guided by embedded lead users cannot be disrupted in the Christensen sense. It didn't work. Management can create these circumstances on purpose.

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Leading Blog

JULY 31, 2012

Six Extras that build influence & leadership. Bill_George: Fellow HBS professor Clay Christensen shares 15 business theories to improve your life. mikemyatt: 4 Leadership Lessons From The Olympics on @Forbes. Agility: The Ingredient That Will Define Next Generation Leadership - Forbes. Genius Log From @davelogan1.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 30, 2014

Questioning is also seen by many business leaders as “inefficient,” according to the author and Harvard Business School professor Clayton Christensen. This requires a leadership team and work force that is always trying to ask the questions that can light up the big honking issues.”.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 25, 2011

While it's written from my perspective, he was central to the development of the idea. An engineer, designer, serial entrepreneur, investor, and researcher, he has developed 1,000+ products/services and has collaborated with Clay Christensen at HBS for more than 15 years.

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N2Growth Blog

JANUARY 13, 2011

In order for your enterprise to turn an idea into a monetizing and/or value creating event you should develop a strategic plan that attempts to measure the idea against the following 15 elements: 1. It should be developed as a solution to a problem or to exploit an opportunity. It must be actionable through tactical implementation.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 1, 2012

Then I read Clay Christensen and Joe Bower's 1995 article "Disruptive Technologies: Catching the Wave" in HBR. Christensen and Bower's article offered the counterintuitive notion that great companies fail for the same reasons they initially experience success.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 2, 2014

As Steve Blank, Clay Christensen, and many others have pointed out, once firms reach a certain size, most of their resources (and investment dollars) are rightly devoted to executing and defending their existing business model. To reverse this, senior leadership took a number of steps. It’s not easy for big companies to innovate.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 13, 2012

Being a giant in today's industry doesn't guarantee even short-term success as industries collide and hungry startups from around the globe keep developing innovative ways to siphon profits from even the most seemingly staid of industries.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 20, 2013

What leadership position — perhaps that no one else wants — can you leverage to build connections and a solid professional reputation? A member of the Forum for Growth and Innovation, a Harvard Business School think tank developing and refining theory around disruptive innovation. Answering those questions isn''t easy.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 30, 2014

Short-term thinking has been charged with no less than a chronic decline in innovation capability by Clayton Christensen who termed it “the Capitalist’s Dilemma.” ) Corporations continue to focus too narrowly on shareholders , with terrible consequences – even at great companies like IBM. Townes, and Henry L. Other universities followed.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 3, 2014

Some may have short onboarding programs for new employees; at best some multinational companies will budget similar training budgets as in their developed market businesses. By finding high potential candidates early, companies can develop them for many years before bringing them onboard. Align Culture and Incentives.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 2, 2013

Without the foresight and intervention of senior leadership, the firm will simply concentrate on the opportunities that it was destined to concentrate on. It's why Christensen's Innovator's Dilemma is so difficult to overcome. At its core, Penrose's idea is the reason innovation requires sponsorship.

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Modern Servant Leader

JANUARY 15, 2015

Are you looking for the top leadership experts to follow in 2015? Maybe you need a leadership development expert or public speaker. Or, maybe you’re focused on personal development and want to find the best content online to help you grow as a leader. 64 11,700 182 Bill Hybels Leadership, Ministry Sr.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 8, 2017

He got the top job because of that, and then as CEO he accelerated cloud-business development to make it the company’s primary strategy. Clay Christensen , Professor at Harvard Business School and Innosight co-founder. ” They Develop a Road Map Before Disruption Takes Hold.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 28, 2012

At least in the US, we seemed to have developed a sort of allergy to the idea of a CEO getting into policy-shaping. And Clay Christensen talked about the increasing pace of disruption across all sectors. Should business leaders be political? Let me rephrase — should business leaders be involved in politics?

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