Eric Jacobson

OCTOBER 18, 2019

"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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First Friday Book Synopsis

FEBRUARY 3, 2014

Christensen. Here’s the description (from Wikipedia): A disruptive innovation is an innovation that helps create a new market and value network, and eventually disrupts an existing market and value network (over a few years or decades), displacing an earlier technology. But I […].

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Eric Jacobson

MARCH 20, 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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Eric Jacobson

FEBRUARY 19, 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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The Horizons Tracker

JUNE 5, 2022

This results in a growing amount of market power being concentrated in a small number of incumbents. They then create this idea and attempt to sell it on the market. This can result in our entire worldview revolving around that idea and block out vital bits of information about the market, our customers, and other key stakeholders.

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Eric Jacobson

NOVEMBER 3, 2016

"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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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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Engaging Leader

SEPTEMBER 15, 2014

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. It presents a method for leveraging a set of tools emerging from lean start-up, design thinking, and agile software development.

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First Friday Book Synopsis

JUNE 19, 2014

Bob''s blog entries Albert Einstein Brilliant Mistakes Brooke Manville Building a Growth Factory Clayton Christensen David Duncan Harvard Business School Harvard Business School Press Howard Aiken Innosight Innosight Ventures Isaac Asimov James O''Toole Judgment Calls Lao-Tse Paul Schoemaker Peter Drucker Richard Dawkins Scott D.

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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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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. These new insights shape our future actions that are even better calibrated to the needs of the market. Boundary Pushing.

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N2Growth Blog

JUNE 14, 2010

So, in today’s post I’ll examine the power of disruption as a key business driver… Disruptive business models focus on creating, disintermediating, refining, reengineering or optimizing a product/service, role/function/practice, category, market, sector, or industry. When was the last time you entered a new market?

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First Friday Book Synopsis

JUNE 16, 2011

Christensen HarperCollins (2003) A brilliant analysis of a multi-dimensional paradox Having just re-read this “business classic,&# I admire it even more now than I did when it was first published. In his Introduction, Christensen makes his objective crystal clear: “This book is [.].

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 15, 2012

This week marks the release of Clayton Christensen's highly-anticipated book, How Will You Measure Your Life (with co-authors James Allworth and Karen Dillon). The book expands on Christensen's McKinsey-award-winning HBR article , drawing life lessons from the models that form the basis of his business-oriented writing. Persistence.

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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. The facility, which is located in the Cambridge Science Park in the UK, strives to help bring new ideas and applications to the market.

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LDRLB

AUGUST 5, 2011

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. Our monthly full-length podcast released on Monday, featuring an interview with Pam Fox Rollin and some vitals rules for new senior leadership.

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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. Would you like to meet my team? Amy Cuddy – She is known around the world for her 2012 TED Talk, which is the second-most-viewed talk in TED’s history.

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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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First Friday Book Synopsis

OCTOBER 3, 2011

Harvard Business Review on Reinventing Your Marketing Various Contributors Harvard Business Review Press (2011) How to use innovative thinking to improve how you create or increase demand for what you offer Those who aspire to maximize the impact of their marketing initiatives will find the material in this HBR book invaluable.

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Joseph Lalonde

JANUARY 3, 2015

Unfortunately, people sitting at the top had no time to examine the process which helped them to recover as the bonus pools grew and markets eventually rose. Clayton Christensen, a Harvard Professor says that only few people tend to hurt others and be dishonest in the initial stages of their career.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 19, 2019

Efosa Ojomo, global prosperity lead at the Clayton Christensen Institute, argues that international aid is not the best way to develop poor countries, nor are investments in natural resource extraction, outsourced labor, or incremental improvements to existing offerings for established customer bases.

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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. Be aware of cultural signals and market dynamics. So…think like Rene Descartes.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 4, 2017

Disruption is a systemic problem: Clayton Christensen outlined in 1997 why it was so difficult for any individual business to defuse disruptive threats and embrace disruptive trends. They’ve read Christensen’s book The Innovator’s Dilemma. For the everyday student of business history, this might be unsurprising.

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Mills Scofield

APRIL 15, 2012

That’s why we see so many good ideas either not make it to market or not for long. ” Clayton Christensen , an advisor to BIF, taught us that customers are hiring companies to “do a job” for them. ” [1] It is simple, but not easy and in today’s world very short-lived.

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Strategy Driven

JUNE 29, 2016

Instead, longevity is based on entrepreneurial thinking and innovation – in exploring ways to adapt corporate and business strategies in response to market, technological, and social and cultural change. On reflection, though, I find that the evidence does not support competitive advantage as a path to longevity.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 27, 2013

In 2007, Clayton Christensen co-founded Rose Park Advisors, a hedge fund devoted to investing in disruptive companies. Disruptive innovation can take several forms, and the market understands some types better than others. But do markets really follow the logic of an academic theory? Mostly, though, markets get things right.

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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. 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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N2Growth Blog

JANUARY 13, 2011

Disruptive innovation is rarely raw genius that bubbles-up, but rather the culmination of several things: a sound idea, vetted through great process, refined by innovative application and brought to market by outstanding leadership. Moore and Christensen tell us what to do, but their prescription is rarely followed. Thanks David.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 21, 2017

Just as we wouldn’t rely on a single marketing tactic or a single source of financing for the entire life of an organization, we need to build up a portfolio of innovation strategies designed for specific tasks. Clay Christensen's landmark theory -- in under two minutes. Related Video. The Explainer: Disruptive Innovation.

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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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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 7, 2016

The latter is according to Clayton Christensen, Michael Raynor, and Rory McDonald in their recent HBR article “ What is Disruptive Innovation?” ” They also write that “disruptive innovations originate in low-end or new-market footholds.” Zipcar counts as a disruptive innovation. Uber doesn’t.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 18, 2015

That’s no surprise, since Clayton Christensen co-founded our company in 2000, five years after his Harvard Business Review article with Joseph L. Bower “ Disruptive Technologies: Catching the Wave ” introduced the idea of disruption to the mainstream market. One yes bears watching; two yeses is a standup moment.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 10, 2015

My own take is that Clay Christensen and his co-authors on the theory made a substantial contribution to our understanding of innovation. In particular, Christensen’s research offers a powerful lens for understanding why incumbents so often lose to upstarts attacking from the low end of the market.

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First Friday Book Synopsis

SEPTEMBER 17, 2011

The High-Velocity Edge: How Market Leaders Leverage Operational Excellence to Beat the Competition Steven J. 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.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 12, 2012

The work of two of the most important scholars in the field, Clayton Christensen and Richard N. One of the key tipping points in a market occurs when a company, in Christensen's language, overshoots a given market tier by providing them performance that they can't use. Foster , suggests considering five questions: 1.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 31, 2016

Measuring Marketing Insights. Enter ING Direct, which looked at the market through a new lens. But without good options for doing that, I ended up doing nothing – what Harvard Business School professor Clayton Christensen calls “non consumption.” That got old quickly. Insight Center. Turning data into action.

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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.” No, it’s to maximize shareholder value. And short-term numbers at that.

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