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Revealing Leadership Insights From Thinkers50

Tanveer Naseer

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. In The Innovator’s Dilemma , he looked at why companies struggle with radical innovation in their markets. This compares with just one in 2011.)

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4 Steps to the Next Breakthrough Idea

First Friday Book Synopsis

Here is an article written by Herb Schaffner for BNET, The CBS Interactive Business Network (March 23, 2011). To check out an abundance of valuable resources and obtain a free subscription to one or more of the BNET newsletters, please click here. * * * Thousands of business books are published every year, so sometimes [.].

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Ideas Don't Equal Innovation | N2Growth Blog

N2Growth Blog

An idea is not synonymous with a competitive advantage, an idea is not necessarily a sign of creativity, an idea does not constitute innovation, and as much as some people wish it was so, an idea is certainly not a business. Moore and Christensen tell us what to do, but their prescription is rarely followed. Thanks David.

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Rules For the Social Era

Harvard Business Review

It's not to create more jargon, it's to emphasize a point: that social is more than the stuff the marketing team deals with. Fifteen years ago, The Cluetrain Manifesto taught us that markets are conversations and that was a great starting point. Mass markets were a convenient fiction created by mass media. How does this work?

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The Most Efficient Die Early

Harvard Business Review

On March 11, 2011, a magnitude-9.0 So, as Pixar cofounder and president Ed Catmull advocates , leaders interested in creative outcomes should focus on fixing problems rather than on eliminating errors. A lot of businesses have done better, and not just obviously creative businesses like Pixar, Amazon, IDEO, and Google.

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What the Best Transformational Leaders Do

Harvard Business Review

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.