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Disruptive Business Models | N2Growth Blog

N2Growth Blog

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. link] LEADERSHIP : Disruptive Business Models – N2Growth Blog « Tech4buziness – Eng [.]

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Voting ends Sept 1st for Thinkers50 Top Management Thinker Award for 2013

Marshall Goldsmith

Previous winners of the Top Management Thinker Award have included Peter Drucker (2001 & 2003), Michael Porter (2005), CK Prahalad (2007 & 2009), and Clayton Christensen (2011). I am honored to have been recognized as the #1 Leadership Thinker and the #7 Business Thinker in the World in 2011.

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Overcoming the Barriers to Corporate Entrepreneurship

Strategy Driven

How do organizations achieve longevity, the kind of longevity that survives long past the founder or any particular leader or leadership team? Copyright 2007-2016 by StrategyDriven Enterprises, LLC. On reflection, though, I find that the evidence does not support competitive advantage as a path to longevity. Consider leaving a comment!

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Jobs to be Done

Deming Institute

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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Ideas Don't Equal Innovation | N2Growth Blog

N2Growth Blog

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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Mindfulness Helps You Become a Better Leader

Harvard Business Review

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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Is Tesla Really a Disruptor? (And Why the Answer Matters)

Harvard Business Review

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. Then Amazon launched the Kindle in 2007, at last igniting transformation of the sluggish book business. None of them succeeded.