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Just because you can make an omelet, doesn’t mean you’re a restaurateur!

Mills Scofield

Long before it became fashionable, Saul was leveraging the power of business models in his career. 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.

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Innovating Your Way Out Of The Resource Curse

The Horizons Tracker

Since then, oil and gas has regularly contributed around 20% of national GDP, with figures in 2012 revealing that the petroleum sector constituted 23% of GDP, 30% of government revenues and 52% of total exports. Norway has been in a similar situation since oil and gas deposits were discovered in the North Sea shelf in the 1960s.

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Mindfulness Helps You Become a Better Leader

Harvard Business Review

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? I don't use the word "practice" lightly.