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LeadershipNow 140: January 2020 Compilation

Leading Blog

Here are a selection of tweets from January 2020 that you don't want to miss: Teaching By Heart: A Guide For Great #Leadership This It is a remarkable book and a perfect means to refocus your leadership development this year. Clayton Christensen Rocked The World Gently from @JohnBaldoni. via @FortuneMagazine.

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How Testbeds Can Help Us To Co-Create The Future

The Horizons Tracker

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. Bunkered away in R&D labs they often fall into the trap of focusing almost exclusively on the technology they’re developing rather than on the customer need it should be meeting.

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Disruptive Business Models | N2Growth Blog

N2Growth Blog

Why didn’t Folgers recognize the retail consumer demand for coffee and develop a Starbucks type business model? How did the brick and mortar book stores let Amazon get the jump on them? Why didn’t IBM see Dell coming? How did Microsoft not keep Google at bay?

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The High-Velocity Edge: A book review by Bob Morris

First Friday Book Synopsis

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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What Is The Job Metaverse Is Trying To Do?

The Horizons Tracker

While the metaverse sprang to public attention with the renaming of Facebook earlier this year, the phrase was coined back in 1996 in Neal Stephenson’s book Snow Crash, in which the science fiction author described an immersive version of the internet that was accessed via virtual reality.

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0511 | Larry Downes: Full Transcript

LDRLB

I’ve really enjoyed that for this book. Talk about some of the ideas that kind of led you both to wanting to write this book, and then we’ll get into what this term big bang disruption means. We’re glad to hear that you thought the article worked as an entire book. LARRY: Sure. Thank you, by the way.

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What Business Schools Don???t Get About MOOCs

Harvard Business Review

Clay Christensen, the innovation expert, advocates instead the approach taken by Wharton, which has made MOOCs out of all its core courses. This brings to mind the dilemma faced by bookseller Barnes & Noble (B&N) back in the 1990s, when Amazon started selling books online. But I dont have to. Business education'