Skip Prichard

SEPTEMBER 20, 2020

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. How will the COVID-19 pandemic impact innovation and leadership in organizations around the world? Would you briefly touch on your thinking? Photo Credit: Riccardo Annandale.

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Tony Mayo

JULY 26, 2010

Top Executive Coaching with Tony Mayo About Tony Mayo Newsletter Sign-up Sections Client Comments For Executive Coaches For Executives For Fun For Salespeople Quotes and Aphorisms Recommended Books Technology Tips Videos & Podcasts Popular Posts Twitter Log IX About Tony Mayo Truth or Consequences?

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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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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.

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Mills Scofield

APRIL 15, 2014

Add to this that more and more interfaces are standardized and subjected to competition (per Clay Christensen ) and we are seeing an emerging alphabet — components that can be assembled in endless combinations as manifestations of unique ideas. Personal leadership and character become more important.

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LDRLB

MAY 26, 2014

I think our principal observation was that what was happening was that disruptive innovations driven by largely information technology but lots of other technologies on the fringe here that are getting ready to exhibit the same kind of characteristics were entering the market in kind of this better and cheaper way.

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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. If you are in the business of making carburetors you are at risk of technological innovation putting you out of business.

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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

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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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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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. Most disruptions have three enablers: a simplifying technology, a business model innovation, and a disruptive value network.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 10, 2011

In 1995, a young Harvard Business School Professor co-authored an article in Harvard Business Review , "Disruptive Technology: Catching the Wave." Of course, that young HBS professor was Innosight co-founder Clayton Christensen. Perhaps the root problem is leadership limitations. Yet, the innovator's dilemma persists.

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Tanveer Naseer

APRIL 1, 2014

State of the art management and leadership techniques are continually evolving. Technology has clearly paid a huge part in this, but the biggest driver of change in how organizations are run is the ceaseless quest for improvement; to manage more efficiently and effectively to better achieve business results.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 17, 2012

They knew digital photography was the future and invested heavily in hybrid technology in the hope of managing the transition from physical photo printing. For Clayton Christensen, this is a basic flaw of incumbency. Steve Jobs, influenced by Christensen, was keenly aware of the innovator's dilemma. Kodak is a poster-child.

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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 one thing, it’s not clear what disruptive technology the company is offering.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 7, 2011

Clayton Christensen has long been a proponent of hiring managers with the right " schools of experience." Sales were flat and Yahoo managed to lose its allure as a technology focused organization. Christensen's theory, however, could have predicted this failure.

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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. First, we increased our R&D budget from 9% to almost 12% of revenue.

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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. How Netflix Reinvented HR.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 15, 2014

He argues more broadly that all the “low-hanging fruit” produced by some non-repeatable breakthroughs (including fundamental technological triumphs) has been plucked. An impassioned counterargument comes from Erik Brynolfsson and Andy McAfee of MIT, who reject the premise that technology’s big leaps are all behind us.

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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. Capturing the Innovation Mind-Set at Bally Technologies.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 26, 2013

The debate has focused almost entirely on the leadership of innovation. We''re figuring out that innovation is the be-all and end-all in every kind of business, and that the quality of leadership is a big factor in determining where it happens. Innovation Leadership Leadership transitions'

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 9, 2010

A quick background on the players: the Summit was thrown by a new organization dedicated to green business leadership, with events aided mightily by friend and colleague, the uber-connected Aimee Christensen. CWR's goal is also to find large-scale technologies and strategies for tackling climate change.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 8, 2017

Clay Christensen , Professor at Harvard Business School and Innosight co-founder. In 2011 the board selected as the new CEO one of its own members, Heinrich Hiesinger, a Siemens executive with experience supplying technology to many industries. The Transformation 10 Judges Chris Chadwick , former CEO of Boeing Defense.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 14, 2011

One group wanted me to detail the essential habits of disruptive innovators (where I happily leveraged the great work on the innovator's DNA by Jeffrey Dyer, Hal Gregersen, and Clayton Christensen). A third wanted to "expand the minds of its regional leadership team." Experimenting with new material always helps to spur new insights.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 12, 2013

But as I kept thinking about the less obvious harm technology could do, the one possibility that really got me worried was the unstoppable rise of what I will call the “advertising/narcissism complex.”. Innovation Leadership' The world suffers from big problems: How can we feed the 10 billion people who will inhabit the Earth in 2050?

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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. One of the reasons for this is that leadership responsibilities begin in earnest at the age of 12.

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