N2Growth Blog

JANUARY 13, 2011

Aside from being costly, a flawed execution can cast doubt on management credibility, have a negative impact on morale, taint the brand, adversely affect external relationships, and cause a variety of other problems for your business. It should be developed as a solution to a problem or to exploit an opportunity.

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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. Jeff is Professor of Strategy at Brigham Young University and Wharton.

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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.

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Leading Blog

OCTOBER 31, 2015

How to Manage Your Ego by Anne Perschel @bizshrink. MIT: New research fundamentally challenges Clay Christensen's theory of disruptive innovation. Don’t Manage Time – Manage Your Values, Priorities, & Habits by @scedmonds. Like us on Facebook for additional leadership and personal development ideas.

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Mike Cardus

NOVEMBER 8, 2013

You can adjust the system they work within meaning the environment, work itself, rewards and tasks , management , etc… By adjusting the system of work you will adjust the behaviors and hopefully increase motivation. Hjørland & Sejer Christensen, 2002). What challenges does the team leaders manager have? What do you think?

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Management Excellence

FEBRUARY 25, 2020

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First Friday Book Synopsis

NOVEMBER 26, 2014

Karl Ronn is the managing director of Innovation Portfolio Partners. He is also developing a software company building diagnostic competency for […]. He is also developing a software company building diagnostic competency for […].

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Lead Change Blog

DECEMBER 29, 2015

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. Bill George – He has taught leadership since 2004 and is a professor of management practice at Harvard Business School, where.

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First Friday Book Synopsis

MAY 6, 2013

I hope that at least a few of these recent posts will be of interest to you: BOOK REVIEWS Customer CEO: How to Profit from the Power of Your Customers Chuck Wall The Referral Engine: Teaching Your Business to Market Itself John Jantsch Disney U : How Disney University Develops the World’s Most Engaged, Loyal, [.].

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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. It equips you with the necessary tools and techniques to manage and measure your life in the present moment of time.

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The Horizons Tracker

DECEMBER 28, 2021

The late Clayton Christensen famously highlighted that consumers are not buying our product as much as they are hiring it to complete a particular job. Bunkered away in R&D labs they often fall into the trap of focusing almost exclusively on the technology they’re developing rather than on the customer need it should be meeting.

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Modern Servant Leader

JANUARY 15, 2015

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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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Strategy Driven

JUNE 29, 2016

It is fashionable today to have management committees, at various organizational levels, working as teams. To address the concerns of the standard supply chain providers, assure them that once developed, the innovative product will be best served by an efficient supply chain, but while in the development stage, responsiveness is essential.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 24, 2013

The result, I think, is a set of ideas that together are important, useful, and original, and that feel like quite an accurate account of the management concerns many of us shared in 2013. The right kind of project management — and project manager — really matters. government, excellent project management is extremely rare.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 8, 2017

One of the most exciting and — sometimes anxiety-producing transitions in a career — comes when you move from being an individual contributor to becoming a manager. So, as a new manager, how do you build an authentic and connected leadership presence that has a positive impact on your team and colleagues?

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 16, 2011

Clayton Christensen would agree with the intuition that Groupon displays but ignores: businesses should become profitable before they become big. The best way to manage a fledgling business is for managers to be impatient for profit but patient for growth.

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LDRLB

MAY 26, 2014

In that sense, the Christensen solution has become counterproductive; in fact, it’s become dangerous. If it’s a Kickstarter kind of situation, they may be funding, actually, the development of the product before you’ve even put pen to paper. The managers just don’t have the tool set often to operate.

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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 22, 2011

I had worked for over a decade to develop relationships with Latin American business leaders, several of whom were on Forbes' billionaire list. What you can know is that the markets for disruptive innovations are unpredictable, and therefore your initial strategy for entering a market will be wrong," writes Christensen. STOP IT.".

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 15, 2012

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. But companies that follow this approach don't develop a capability to create new growth businesses.

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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. No, it’s to maximize shareholder value.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 18, 2017

Garvin was a generalist more than a specialist, perhaps because he came of age at HBS during the 1980s, when the school’s primary focus was the development of skilled general managers. Kaplan’s balanced scorecard or Clayton Christensen’s disruptive innovation.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 16, 2012

While management often espouses the notion that good ideas can come from everywhere, in practice there are "thinkers" who create strategies and designated "doers" who execute those strategies. Many of you know of Clay Christensen's iconic work the Innovators Dilemma. What could you do together? What would be one way to try it out?

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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

OCTOBER 17, 2012

To become a complete man or woman, each must develop both sides of the psyche. The Innovator's Dilemma by Clayton Christensen (which is also on John Coleman's list) builds on the notion of a growth mindset more specifically within a business context. With all this learning by doing, setbacks will be inevitable.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 7, 2012

Several years ago Clayton Christensen (author of The Innovator's Dilemma ) and colleagues at Innosight coined the phrase "jobs-to-be-done" as part of a methodology they use to build new billion dollar businesses. If you like to try new things, think about hobbies or activities you could engage in to develop new skills.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 11, 2013

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. She loved her job, and with a background in public affairs in communications had been successful in both international business and management roles. Innovation'

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 31, 2016

But without good options for doing that, I ended up doing nothing – what Harvard Business School professor Clayton Christensen calls “non consumption.” ” But as Christensen observes, finding pockets of non consumption is a ripe opportunity for innovation. Too often, organizations are myopic.

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First Friday Book Synopsis

SEPTEMBER 17, 2011

Spear McGraw-Hill (2009) The power of causal mechanisms that can drive a continuously self-improving system Clayton Christensen’s high praise of Steven Spear and this book is well-deserved. The High-Velocity Edge: How Market Leaders Leverage Operational Excellence to Beat the Competition Steven J.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 3, 2017

But their way of thinking about prosperity also offers direction for any managers who want to work harder to make the world better off: your mission is to imagine, develop, and launch more life-improving solutions, especially the kinds of goods and services that improve ordinary people’s lives. Many minds make lighter work.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 7, 2013

Both articles espoused slightly new definitions of disruption, expanding the categorization of the world that Clay Christensen introduced us to more than 20 years ago. It's the paradox that plagues managers of successful firms, tempted to make all the right decisions, right up until they're flung off a cliff.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 23, 2012

For example, I'm sure that most innovation practitioners wouldn't put baseball researcher Bill James on their list, but his mission to find patterns, develop theories, and overturn orthodoxy has greatly influenced my own thinking. After all, Lafley's bent is to manage innovation in a systematic, disciplined way. Stefan Lindegaard.

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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. Bob is the Managing Partner of The Re-Wired Group in Detroit, an innovation incubator and consultancy specializing in demand-side innovation. Finally, assess the level of time you're willing to put into developing this person.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 3, 2012

Managers working on ideas discover that detailed PowerPoint documents are their biggest enemy, because the details act as bait for nit-picking devil's advocates. Applying this same discipline to nascent opportunities in new spaces can be disastrous. Endless pre-meetings crowd out action-based learning. Then, the bar goes up.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 1, 2012

They're bad at innovation by design: All the pressures and processes that drive them toward a profitable, efficient operation tend to get in the way of developing the innovations that can actually transform the business. However, in the process of unleashing this potential, leaders must make sure their innovators develop sustainability.

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