Marshall Goldsmith

FEBRUARY 8, 2018

Author or editor of 29 books. Thinkers50 – World’s Most Influential Management Thinkers. Called ‘The Academy Awards of Leadership’ by the Economist, Thinkers50 is the world’s most reliable resource for identifying, ranking and sharing the leading management ideas of our age. Authority on new technology and communication.

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MAY 26, 2014

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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N2Growth Blog

OCTOBER 10, 2010

Sure, great leaders never lose sight of their core business, they pay attention to managing risk, etc., 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. One example from my latest book, Ruthless Focus, is Staples.

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JUNE 28, 2017

Whitney Johnson – Thinkers 50 award-winning Management Thinker 2015-17, Disruptive Innovation expert, author Disrupt Yourself: Putting the Power of Disruptive Innovation to Work. Then Ayse asked us to describe what made us think of them as heroes. Thought Leaders – Cohort 2.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 28, 2015

Technologies like 3-D printing, robotics, advanced motion controls, and new methods for continuous manufacturing hold great potential for improving how companies design and build products to better serve customers. Why are older incumbent firms slow to adopt new technologies even when the economic or strategic benefits are clear?

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 15, 2016

Sure, people print nostalgic books and holiday cards, but that volume pales in comparison to Kodak’s heyday. Kodak was so blinded by its success that it completely missed the rise of digital technologies. So, another explanation is that Kodak invented the technology but didn’t invest in it. Why did this happen?

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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. That vestiges of old technologies linger on, capable of being resurrected into viable businesses again, doesn’t seem strange to us.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 1, 2012

As we grew, I knew it would be very difficult to continue to create the breakthrough innovations that had led to Medtronic's high growth rate, which had exceeded 18% per annum for a decade. 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

NOVEMBER 10, 2011

In 1995, a young Harvard Business School Professor co-authored an article in Harvard Business Review , "Disruptive Technology: Catching the Wave." 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.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 17, 2012

In fact, one of my clients recently asked me, not at all unkindly, "What drives so many Mormons to be management thought-leaders?" Certainly, it is interesting to note how many Mormons have played an active role in shaping modern management theory. He sold 20 million books and taught more than 50 heads of state. of the U.S.

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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. Are they "real" innovations or gimmicks? Apple and Steve Jobs surely offer a safe haven for innovation elites.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 22, 2011

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. The term "disruptive innovation" has become an industry buzzword. Perhaps you too are ready to disrupt yourself. Columbia University professor Amar V.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 28, 2011

So, my colleague Josh Suskewicz and I put our heads together and came up with the 10 innovation myths that we encounter most often in the field. Innovation is random Innovation is a discipline — it can be measured and managed. Only creative geniuses can innovate. We will win with superior technology.

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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?

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 10, 2013

As noted management expert Geoffrey Moore told me with respect to high-velocity competition, "I''m not sure you ever want to be in the public markets." Moreover, firms are often investing in venture capital-type organizations with the hope of striking it lucky with a new technology or offer.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 22, 2013

You may ask, what are some risky investments that stand a high chance of failure but, if successful, enable larger technological leaps that promise earthshaking impact? Three major factors drive convergence: technology, competition, and the customer. Amazon created the online retail pivot to outcompete brick-and-mortar book retailers.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 5, 2013

I’m told that all articles on productivity must at some point recite economist Paul Krugman’s line from his 1990 book The Age of Diminished Expectations : Productivity isn’t everything, but in the long run it is almost everything. Disruptive innovation Economy Productivity'

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 15, 2013

Technology changes. This is an era of disruption. Not disruption as the occasional event, but disruption as the constant, chronic condition of our professional lives. You would hope that we were getting better at understanding and managing change. Disruptive innovation' Markets change.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 10, 2011

Last week I attended an Executive Sustainability Summit hosted by Xerox , Waste Management (WM), and Arizona State University. The short conference brought together public and private sector managers working on environmental and social issues. billion "managed print services" (MPS) industry ( according to research firm IDC ).

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 10, 2011

The Verizon Wireless side of the telecom giant, which is 45 percent owned by Vodafone, is also deepening ties with Google for the Droid and betting on its faster fourth generation (4G) network based on new LTE (long term evolution) technology to leap forward in the wireless marketplace.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 19, 2015

Hailed in the 1960s as bastions of sophisticated management, they used cheap financing to acquire, then rationalize, many family-owned firms. The technology’s flexibility introduces synergies where none existed before. Conglomerates, at least in the United States, have a checkered history. GE might be first to capitalize on this.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 13, 2013

As I''ve written in my previous two blog posts, our first inclination is usually to play down the potential impact of a new technology. But even great management cannot protect these airlines. We are capable of grasping the change as a literal shift in technology and even as a shift in the way we travel. Put it this way.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 11, 2012

It is one that I tell in my book, The Coming Prosperity ) When he started building the mobile phone company Roshan in 2003, he faced some singular challenges. Khoja recalls his chief technology officer, Eric Chapman, announcing a week into the search that they were going to have to choose their engineers in a different way.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 10, 2018

Hence, when a new potential stream of revenue presents itself, the company’s management feels it cannot afford to just leave it. Yet Capitec’s management was thinking ahead. Capitec’s management realized the company had moved on and that those branches needed closing.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 6, 2012

In the early 2000s, the notion of open innovation was still reasonably fringe stuff in business circles. Henry Chesbrough's seminal book on the topic wasn't published until 2003. Breaking Out" stood proudly at the lunatic fringe of innovation. HBR's 90th Anniversary: Why Management Matters. Spock — poker!".

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 13, 2017

Anthony, Innosight managing partner, discusses why established corporations should be better at handling disruptive threats. He also discusses the leadership qualities of executives who effectively navigate their companies’ imminent disruption. Download this podcast.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 14, 2011

Then the middle managers left, and the gloves came off. Innovation requires a bit of anarchy and a willingness to challenge the status quo. As a contrast to the meeting I observed, consider Start-up Nation , a fascinating book by Dan Senor and Saul Singer. The technology is simple. Then the top brass left.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 23, 2015

They are about technology and its dynamics, about a company’s strengths and weaknesses.” ’ It also answers the fundamental questions every manager must ask: How do we make money in this business? Introducing a better business model into an existing market is the definition of a disruptive innovation.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 20, 2011

Innovation is now perceived as a panacea for job creation, income generation, economic growth, dollar strength, and the revival of the U.S. But if innovation is going to save us, we must understand why is has so far failed us. Unpacking the past decade's experience with innovation can guide us. as global hegemon.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 11, 2012

It is one that I tell in my book, The Coming Prosperity ) When he started building the mobile phone company Roshan in 2003, he faced some singular challenges. Khoja recalls his chief technology officer, Eric Chapman, announcing a week into the search that they were going to have to choose their engineers in a different way.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 4, 2017

Disruption is a systemic problem: Clayton Christensen outlined in 1997 why it was so difficult for any individual business to defuse disruptive threats and embrace disruptive trends. But the corporate innovators we’ve talked to all know that. They’ve read Christensen’s book The Innovator’s Dilemma.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 12, 2016

First impressions matter so much because they happen fast, and they are stubborn , says Whitney Johnson , the author of Disrupt Yourself: Putting the Power of Disruptive Innovation to Work. If, for instance, colleagues say you are a great people manager, seek out metrics to support that idea. What the Experts Say.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 15, 2017

Making matters more challenging, these shifts are happening across practically every retail category – books, entertainment, housewares, clothing, food, financial services, and even energy. More retail purchases are moving online, and a growing number of manufacturers now sell to consumers directly, cutting out retailers entirely.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 10, 2011

billion global IT services firm, HCL Technologies, puts it: "The CEO should be the Chief Question Asker, not the final provider of answers." Polly LaBarre is editorial director of the Management Innovation Exchange. As Vineet Nayar, CEO of the $3.5

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 17, 2012

Of course, being a dominant film provider became increasingly irrelevant in light of recent technological shifts. The engineer behind that project, Steve Sasson, offered a memorable one-liner to the New York Times in 2008 when he said management's reaction to his prototype was, "That's cute — but don't tell anyone about it.".

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 29, 2010

I've also had the chance to experience the world of venture capital investing through the small fund that our team in Singapore manages on behalf of the Singapore government. I argued a few months ago that the innovation axis was shifting from the West to the East. That point led to spirited discussion with my VC friends.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 1, 2011

I wrote a case study about this for my book and it ended up on the cutting room floor, but it's still a fascinating story and one that has valuable lessons for today. On the contrary, success was achieved by senior managers humble enough not to take their initial strategic positions too seriously.

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