Lead on Purpose

MAY 4, 2013

His book The Innovators Dilemma has impacted the business world perhaps more than any other book in recent history. According to Christensen, you keep nimble and respond to up-and-coming innovations at the bottom of the market. Integrity Leadership Purpose change Clayton Christensen Innovation'

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QAspire

JANUARY 17, 2022

We have a choice of either being pushed by the disruption or be ready with our surfing boards in advance so that we could ride the wave. Whitney Johnson wrote a book titled “ Disrupt Yourself ” in 2015 that effectively underlines the need to take right risks proactively and offers very useful stories and insights on how to disrupt yourself.

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Leading Blog

DECEMBER 16, 2013

Moreover, the true litmus test for a thought leader is when their unique ideas are implemented in the marketplace, they tend to create disruptive innovation, and often change the way we view the world. Let me begin by stating that authentic thought leaders, the real deals, are not created via great marketing and PR alone.

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N2Growth Blog

JUNE 24, 2014

Thanks to Professor Clayton Christensen of Harvard University and his 1997 landmark book, The Innovator’s Dilemma , we have a new way of understanding the life cycle of companies and why some market leaders maintain their dominant position and other one-time market leaders disappear. WHAT IS A DISRUPTIVE INNOVATION?

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Tanveer Naseer

APRIL 1, 2014

From blue ocean strategy to Michael Porter’s five forces, Vijay Govindarajan’s reverse innovation to Richard D’Aveni’s hypercompetition, great thinkers and their ideas directly effect how companies are run and how business people think about and practice business. Stuart and Des are the authors of more than 15 books available in 20 languages.

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First Friday Book Synopsis

JANUARY 17, 2016

His life’s work has focused on the market dynamics surrounding disruptive innovations. His first book, Crossing the Chasm, 3rd… Read More Geoffrey Moore on competing in the Age of Disruption: An interview by Bob Morris.

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First Friday Book Synopsis

DECEMBER 9, 2015

His life’s work has focused on the market dynamics surrounding disruptive innovations. His first book, Crossing the Chasm, 3rd… Read More Geoffrey Moore on Zone to Win: An interview by Bob Morris.

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Eric Jacobson

OCTOBER 13, 2020

Earlier this year brought the book, Create The Future: Tactics For Disruptive Thinking , by J eremy Gutsche , CEO of Trend Hunter. Gutsche shares that, Create The Future , "is a book about Disruptive Thinking, so it makes sense that it shouldn't follow conventional norms. Stop saying : We’re too big. We’re too small.

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First Friday Book Synopsis

DECEMBER 13, 2014

His life’s work has focused on the market dynamics surrounding disruptive innovations. His first book, Crossing the Chasm, 3rd […].

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LDRLB

MAY 26, 2014

The most recent being Big Bang Disruption: Strategy in the Age of Devastating Innovation. 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. DAVID: Yeah.

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N2Growth Blog

OCTOBER 10, 2010

If you cannot turn an idea into innovation, if you can’t put thought into practice, it’s not a game changer. I plan on circulating your information and just ordered your book. link] mikemyatt Thanks for the kind words Dan, and I hope you enjoy the book. If it’s not really meaningful, it’s not a game changer so why do it?

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Skip Prichard

AUGUST 2, 2019

Their new book is BULLETPROOF PROBLEM SOLVING: The One Skill That Changes Everything. Technology change is speeding business up and providing an edge for disruptive innovators. That is what this book is about. Problems are not stop signs, they are guidelines.” New Skills Required. 7 Steps to Problem Solving.

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Marshall Goldsmith

FEBRUARY 8, 2018

Author or editor of 29 books. Whitney Johnson – Author of the critically acclaimed: Disrupt Yourself. Co-founder of Rose Park Advisors—Disruptive Innovation Fund. A leading thinker on strategy and breakthrough innovation. Liz Wiseman – Author of the best-selling books: Rookie Smarts and Multipliers.

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N2Growth Blog

JANUARY 13, 2011

As a result of our conversation, I decided to dust-off an old post, give it a few updates, and pass along my thoughts, which can be best summarized as “ Ideas Don’t Equal Innovation. “ It is my hope to help dispel the myth that ideas are inherently good things.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 28, 2011

I'm doing an innovation update at one of our meetings and I'm hoping you can assist me with some conversation starters," a senior leader said to one of our clients. The main point of the presentation is to get the audience thinking proactively and positively about how they can contribute to innovation.".

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 8, 2013

Why does disruptive innovation seem to take so long? And why don’t the usual levers we deploy to speed up our innovation efforts–like pushing more resources, more frequent check-ins, and tighter deadlines–seem to deliver results? Innovation webinar'

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 10, 2011

The most punishing innovations, they argued, were the ones that were easy to dismiss at first blush — simple, affordable solutions that took root outside the mainstream market. The authors called these "disruptive" solutions and provided a straightforward prescription for leaders looking to turn disruption into an opportunity.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 14, 2011

The first experience involved extensive field visits to India and China as part of work with a multinational company looking to boost growth in those markets. Our team collectively spent about 100 days across the two markets, visiting urban areas, rural areas, homes, retail locations, hospitals, and more.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 30, 2013

One of the most common complaints senior executives have about disruptive innovation is its seemingly snail-like pace. How is it, they wonder, that it takes us forever to pursue ideas that promise to create new markets when the world seems to be innovating at a dizzying pace? Push to learn in market. Innovation'

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 29, 2011

We've all been in conversations on the topics of creativity and innovation when Henry Ford's most famous adage is (excuse the pun) trotted out, usually accompanied by a knowing smirk and air of self-evidence. Battle lines are quickly drawn. Having grown weary of both sides of the debate, I was curious; did Ford utter those words?

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 27, 2010

I thought it would be helpful to provide the list of 31 questions, and my one sentence perspective on each question, as it dovetails with my current book project (tentatively titled, The Little Black Book of Innovation.) How do you define innovation? What are different types of innovation? Who are your influences?

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 22, 2011

As the beach-read season comes to a close, check out these new and forthcoming books from HBR Press: How to Be Good at Performance Appraisals: Simple, Effective, Done Right. The Innovator's DNA: Mastering the Five Skills of Disruptive Innovators. Winning the War for Talent in Emerging Markets: Why Women are the Solution.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 25, 2013

health care market more than a decade ago, they were greeted with high expectations. Nonetheless, their performance has been disappointing: Their growth has been less than expected, they have not expanded care to underserved markets (namely, the poor), and their impact on health care spending — helping to lower it — remains unclear.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 30, 2011

That McDonald's or Pret a Manger is less open to disruptive innovation than El Bulli? If you believe any, or all, of those things, then you're not a business sophisticate, you're an innovation snob. My concern over innovation condescension was provoked by surprising comments on a previous post. How trite and trivial.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 16, 2017

There’s little argument that Tesla is a wildly innovative company. Tesla clearly doesn’t qualify under the traditional definition of a disruptive innovation. Tesla is also not comparable to Netflix, another frequently-cited example of a disruptive innovator. car manufacturer and all but three worldwide.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 17, 2012

Last week, John Coleman posted a list of recommended books, 11 Books Every Young Leader Should Read. There were no books by women on the list. When I recently asked a group of successful professional women to list their favorite books about entrepreneurship, the list skewed largely male. Not too long ago, my list did too.

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Coaching Tip

APRIL 18, 2017

Today's conventional wisdom says to survive, companies must move beyond incremental innovation and invest in radical, disruptive innovation. In "THE POWER OF LITTLE IDEAS" , Wharton professor David Robertson examines an approach to innovation; one that is neither incremental nor disruptive. Unlocking Innovation.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 22, 2011

But I've found that the rules of disruption apply to the individual too. Or as thought leader Jennifer Sertl writes, "innovation ultimately begins on the inside.". Six years into my mid-career move, here are some lessons learned from my personal disruptive trajectory: If it feels scary and lonely, you're probably on the right track.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 29, 2010

I argued a few months ago that the innovation axis was shifting from the West to the East. Silicon Valley remains the global hot spot of innovation, and America continues to churn out innovative companies like Groupon and Bloom Energy. Chinese companies like BYD are well positioned to lead the electrical vehicle market.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 12, 2011

Our eyes are underrated innovation tools. This Monday, I was in Mumbai conducting market research with a project team. These observations weren't closely connected with my client work, but they did help to provide local context and might ultimately spur thoughts about opportunities for innovation.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 28, 2014

A recent article in The Economist , citing the work of Ryan Raffaelli at Harvard Business School, points to what it calls a “paradox” in the aftermath of disruptive innovation. Today, the company does roughly $50 million in total sales, with the home market accounting for over 80% of them. That’s a healthy company.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 24, 2011

As a business researcher, I was particularly interested in this recent article that referenced from his biography a list of Jobs's favorite books. There's one business book on this list, and it "deeply influenced" Jobs. That book is The Innovator's Dilemma by HBS Professor Clay Christensen. They're freaks." And he did.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 1, 2012

In the mid-90s as CEO of Medtronic, I was concerned about whether we could sustain the remarkable success in innovation that we had enjoyed during the previous 10 years. Then I read Clay Christensen and Joe Bower's 1995 article "Disruptive Technologies: Catching the Wave" in HBR.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 29, 2014

As the Internet of Things (IoT) spreads, the implications for business model innovation are huge. And when feature innovation eventually proved to be too incremental, price competition would ensue, and products would become obsolete. Design Disruptive innovation Internet'

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 2, 2011

Editor's note: This post is part of a three-week series examining innovation in health care, published in partnership with the Advanced Leadership Initiative at Harvard University. The transformational force that has brought affordability and accessibility to other industries is disruptive innovation.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 1, 2014

By contrast, disruptors like Tesla (or, for that matter, Google ) gain a new advantage by understanding, leveraging, and ultimately staking a claim in the broader ecosystem, drawing heavily on innovation from outside traditional industry boundaries. Not exactly – despite the product it markets and sells to consumers.

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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.

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