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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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The World’s Top 50 Leadership and Management Thinkers

N2Growth Blog

Every two years since 2001, Thinkers50 has published their ranking of the world’s top 50 management and leadership thinkers. Those recognized previously have included Peter Drucker, Michael Porter, Bill Gates, Steve Jobs, Tom Peters, Richard Branson, Clayton Christensen and other esteemed thinkers.

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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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How do leaders make lasting change?

Lead on Purpose

One of the great leaders and thinkers of our time is Clayton Christensen , ”a down-to-earth” alum of BYU, Oxford and Harvard. I found two recent articles about Clayton Christensen that have increased my understanding about leadership: The first is published in the BYU Magazine’s Spring 2013 edition. (As

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Revealing Leadership Insights From Thinkers50

Tanveer Naseer

State of the art management and leadership techniques are continually evolving. 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. Business best practice never stands still.

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35 Leadership Quotes from the 10th Global Peter Drucker Forum

Leading Blog

Leadership should shift from hierarchy to hustle. The CEO needs to take up the leadership challenge to help others respond to that. Efosa Ojomo, Research Fellow, Clayton Christensen Institute. ? Leadership is a distributed capability throughout the organization. Isabelle Kocher, Engie. ? Move to the next step.

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Lead from the Future

Leading Blog

In building it, you should measure dollars but also people and leadership mindshare, as talent and leadership energy are often more scarce in big companies than seed funding. The leadership framework shown below highlights the mindsets for both present-forward and future-back leadership.