Eric Jacobson

NOVEMBER 15, 2017

"The clearer your company culture, the less likely it will be hijacked by the weaker personalities in your team," explains Mary Christensen , author of the book, Be A Network Marketing Leader. "A Christensen's recommended eight guidelines are: We respect each other. We support each other.

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Guidelines Christensen Company Operations 50

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. When was the last time you entered a new market? Are your management and executive ranks void of youth?

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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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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. Five personal leadership competencies are essential for success in today’s environment: A Leapfrogging Mindset. Boundary Pushing.

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Disruptive Innovation Innovation Christensen Kaplan 133

LDRLB

AUGUST 5, 2011

Our monthly full-length podcast released on Monday, featuring an interview with Pam Fox Rollin and some vitals rules for new senior leadership. We dabbled our hand in marketing as Tim Vanderpy reviewed UnMarketing. We reposted a teaser video for Clayton Christensen’s new one The Innovative University.

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Christensen Ethics Survey Review 79

Skip Prichard

SEPTEMBER 20, 2020

Good marketers, and particularly researchers, tackle business problems by directly challenging the core beliefs around the ‘consumer reality’ of a brand—which are very often based on either outmoded, unrealistic or simply wishful thinking. How will the COVID-19 pandemic impact innovation and leadership in organizations around the world?

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The Horizons Tracker

FEBRUARY 22, 2022

It’s a market that is already worth $3.1 But in industrial deployments, think 5G powered ports, mines, and factories, operations can re-configure the signal to support even faster upload speeds,” Brian Chamberlin, Executive Advisor, Huawei Carrier Marketing, says. “ There are cases with upload speeds of over 1Gbps.

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Stephenson Wireless Christensen Automotive 109

N2Growth Blog

JANUARY 13, 2011

Champion : Senior leadership must champion any new idea being adopted. " Regards, Leadership Freak Dan Rockwell [link] Bob MacNeal Mike, Thanks for this helpful post. Senior leadership must champion any new idea being adopted. Actionable : A successful idea cannot remain in a strategic planning state. via n2growth.com [.]

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Blog Innovation Brand Strategic Planning 413

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? This can be done by building alliances of support, having reputable endorsements, establishing high quantity, and using means such as discounts or samples to build a market presence.

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LDRLB

MAY 26, 2014

One of the things I think is most interesting is there’s a lot of old models of innovation and of strategy that I won’t say they don’t necessarily apply anymore, but they apply to very, very, almost static markets. In that sense, the Christensen solution has become counterproductive; in fact, it’s become dangerous.

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Early Adopters Rogers Disruptive Innovation Innovation 60

Deming Institute

JANUARY 19, 2017

In Clayton Christensen’s new book, Competing Against Luck , the authors delve into the importance of gaining a deep understanding of what your customers desire. Edwards Deming and Clayton Christensen understand that the customer is part of the system in a way that most others don’t appreciate. I strongly recommend it.

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Deming Christensen System Innovation 28

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 13, 2014

In 1960, marketing legend Ted Levitt provided perhaps his seminal contribution to the Harvard Business Review : “ Marketing Myopia.” As Clayton Christensen likes to note , the primary job of leadership today is to “source, assemble, and ship numbers.” Innovation Leadership Strategy' And short-term numbers at that.

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Levitt Christensen Competitive Advantage Welch 12

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 29, 2012

Not a bad metaphor for work, life, and leadership. But the Kodak ship ultimately drifted so far away from a changing market that no leap year could save it. Easier than we all think (and Clayton Christensen's The Innovator's Dilemma is one of the best books around on leadership drift). We live in a world of uncertainty.

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Leadership Christensen Innovation Metrics 15

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. That's a tough question.

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Books Cialdini Christensen Collins 22

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 22, 2011

By Jeff Dyer, Hal Gregersen, and Clay Christensen. Alongside Clay Christensen, Jeff Dyer and Hal Gregersen conducted an in-depth study that uncovered the five skills shared by the best innovators in the world. Winning the War for Talent in Emerging Markets: Why Women are the Solution. By Sylvia Ann Hewlett and Ripa Rashid.

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Kaplan Christensen Books Disruptive Innovation 14

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 10, 2011

The most punishing innovations, they argued, were the ones that were easy to dismiss at first blush — simple, affordable solutions that took root outside the mainstream market. Of course, that young HBS professor was Innosight co-founder Clayton Christensen. Capital markets is one explanation.

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Innovation Disruptive Innovation Christensen Kahneman 15

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. That's a tough question.

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Books Cialdini Christensen Collins 18

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 17, 2012

For Clayton Christensen, this is a basic flaw of incumbency. Unfortunately, however, customers for firms serving the mass market, by definition, have largely of middle-of-the-road needs. Unfortunately, however, customers for firms serving the mass market, by definition, have largely of middle-of-the-road needs. It didn't work.

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Christensen Disruptive Innovation Mass Marketing Wireless 8

Eric Jacobson

OCTOBER 30, 2016

Here, from the new book, Be A Network Marketing Leader , are some tips on how, as a leader, you can connect with your individual team members: Send cards on their birthdays and anniversary-of-joining dates. Keep yourself updated with what's happening in their personal lives. Show your support during personal or family crises.

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Team How To Tips Books 50

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 17, 2012

What actually concerns me — and I hope you as well — is that in his canon of leadership books there are no women's voices, at least not in the top 11 that he relies on and that inspire him to greatness. Perhaps this explains why so few of our "Lists on Leadership" include the voices of women. So does leadership.

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Tanveer Naseer

APRIL 1, 2014

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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Blue Ocean Strategy Prahalad Christensen Leadership 250

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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Charan Finance Human Resources Supply Chain 15

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 7, 2011

Clayton Christensen has long been a proponent of hiring managers with the right " schools of experience." Christensen's theory, however, could have predicted this failure. Her success was a function of being good at increasing earnings (in the face of rapid market expansion) and managing investors.

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Christensen Price CEO Media 15

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 16, 2012

"Leadership" has changed when a decentralized group of people can take down a government. This can change how we organize every single part of these organizations — from what we make, to how we product and distribute, to how we market and sell. Many of you know of Clay Christensen's iconic work the Innovators Dilemma.

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Christensen Business Model Decentralization Innovation 16

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 26, 2012

As markets rose and bonus pools grew, it was all too easy to celebrate the rising tide of wealth without examining the process that created it. My colleague, Harvard Professor Clayton Christensen, addressed this topic in his HBR article, How Will You Measure Your Life? That is much easier said than done.

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Christensen Self-aware Short-term Long-term 15

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 13, 2012

This unnamed company had been the gorilla of its market for the past two decades and had gotten used to throwing its weight around, particularly with suppliers that wanted both the positive reputation effects and the volume that came from serving a market leader. There's nothing wrong with a company being proud of its accomplishments.

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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. Celine Schillinger sought to change the leadership landscape of Sanofi, a major pharmaceutical company. If you say we should, let’s do it.

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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. Still, it enabled Medtronic to expand into the Chinese market.

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Disruptive Innovation Christensen Telecommunications Incubator 8

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. Because the high end of most markets is where the most attractive profits are made, serving the most profitable customers. and Jason Hwang M.D.

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Health Care Disruptive Innovation Christensen Business Model 15

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.”. So why open the floodgates?

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Company Ries Christensen Innovation 11

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 16, 2017

In the model described by Clayton Christensen, a new entrant offers substitute products using technology that is cheaper but initially inferior to products offered by mature incumbents. For the cash-strapped Tesla, waning sales may cut short any hopes of securing a sustainable leadership position in a reinvented transportation industry.

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Supply Chain Automotive Disruptive Innovation Transportation 12

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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Management Health Care Middle Management Agility 21

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 18, 2011

The company is already in market and earning revenue. "The company needs to start raising money soon, or it is never going to realize its full potential," Piyush argued. That's utter baloney," I responded. It needs to figure out its business model before it raises more money.". Piyush looked at me blankly.

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Power Consensus Christensen Disruptive Innovation 14

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. Many emerging markets in Africa fall into this ‘not-good-enough’ category. A good training strategy is a competitive advantage. Align Culture and Incentives.

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Training Company Metrics Real Estate 8

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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Innovation Metrics Christensen Workshop 9

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 1, 2017

In early 2016 some numbers surfaced at a few of the Dorchester Collection’s luxury hotels that caught leadership’s attention: Complaints about our laundry service were on the rise, as was the cost of compensating guests for damage to their clothes. One hotel had to replace a fabulously expensive Givenchy evening gown.

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Hotels Fashion Budgeting Retail 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 8, 2017

In a study of S&P 500 and Global 500 firms, our team found that those leading the most successful transformations, creating new offerings and business models to push into new growth markets, share common characteristics and strategies. Clay Christensen , Professor at Harvard Business School and Innosight co-founder.

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