Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 30, 2011

In the course of writing Passion & Purpose , I was fortunate enough to meet and interview hundreds of young leaders, many of them "rockstar" twenty-somethings who command high six-figure salaries, are in stable relationships, and have all the career options in the world. First, they realize that large companies aren't safe options anymore.

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Career Christensen Hedge Short-term 20

Deming Institute

JANUARY 19, 2017

In Clayton Christensen’s new book, Competing Against Luck , the authors delve into the importance of gaining a deep understanding of what your customers desire. Some are little (pass the time while waiting in line); some are big (find a more fulfilling career). We all have many jobs to be done in our lives.

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Deming Christensen System Innovation 28

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 19, 2012

After studying Hollywood actors for three years, MIT Professor Ezra Zuckerman found that actors who typecast themselves (PDF) early in their careers tend to earn more money, have longer lifespans, and enjoy more fame compared to generalist actors. Over the long term, that is a career strategy with diminishing returns.

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Career Long-term Christensen CFO 15

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 5, 2012

It's not news to anyone who's looked for a job recently that the days of a monolithic career spent at one company or in one well-defined field are over. Many of us have had to — willingly or out of necessity — rethink our career paths. At six years old, I knew what I wanted to be: a designer.

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Career Christensen Disruptive Innovation Travel 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 4, 2015

Everyone aspires to have purpose or meaning in their career but how do you actually do that? Here are principles you can follow to find a career — and a specific job —­ you don’t just enjoy, but love. What are the beliefs and priorities of the company and the people you work with? What the Experts Say.

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Career How To Finance Case Study 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 22, 2011

Notwithstanding the considerable career and financial (I am the primary breadwinner) risks involved, it was time to leave my comfortable perch and become an entrepreneur. 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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Disruptive Innovation Christensen Metrics Innovation 17

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 16, 2012

Yet every day you get dressed, eat breakfast and go to work for a company you think hurts other people and the planet. In this role, Gregor helped to infuse the company with the kind of conscious, ethical values that its products represent. Find others in the company who think as you do. What was it that he was here to do?

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Company Ethics Due Diligence Mission Statement 10

LDRLB

MAY 26, 2014

In that sense, the Christensen solution has become counterproductive; in fact, it’s become dangerous. What we say is, long before Netflix showed up, long before any of these disruptives showed up, the leadership of these companies knows full well that there are technology disruptors that are on the horizon.

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Early Adopters Rogers Disruptive Innovation Innovation 60

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 14, 2011

Or consider the influence of Clayton Christensen, who tops the new ranking. Christensen's influence on the business world has been profound. In The Innovator's Dilemma , he looked at why companies struggle to deal with radical innovation in their markets. Finally, management ideas can be the catalyst for a better future.

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Blue Ocean Strategy Management Christensen Balanced Scorecard 15

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 7, 2012

For example, an executive in his mid-thirties and in a career transition began by asking "How can I make a bucket of money?" As a result, he's moved into different kinds of job interviews, landing one with a big multinational company that otherwise would never have happened had he not changed his question.

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Disruptive Innovation Innovation Christensen Long-term 16

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 26, 2012

My colleague, Harvard Professor Clayton Christensen, addressed this topic in his HBR article, How Will You Measure Your Life? Clay observed that few people, if any, intend at the outset of their career to behave dishonestly and hurt others. But then, Christensen says, they started making exceptions to the rules "just this once.".

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Christensen Self-aware Short-term Long-term 15

Chart Your Course

JUNE 30, 2016

Good to Great: Why Some Companies Make the Leap … and Others Don’t (2001). In one of the defining management studies carried out in the 90s, Collins and his team complied a list of 1,435 companies in search of those special few that could truly be called “great.” Ineffective companies operate only from the other two layers.

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Human Resources Talent Management Resources Ulrich 100

Harvard Business Review

MAY 7, 2015

It asked 9,700 full-time workers in eight countries, and in companies of varying sizes, about what makes today’s workers tick—and ticked off. They must invest more hours in both their emerging careers and their families. companies and competitiveness. companies do) and flexibility for all. For the U.S.

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Survey Christensen Globalization Human Capital 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 11, 2015

In-house strategy and consulting groups are growing in popularity , supplementing and increasingly winning business from traditional consulting firms such as McKinsey & Company, Boston Consulting Group and Bain & Company. For a company our size, with reported revenue of $24.4 But the key was knowing when to stop growing.

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Consultative Team How To McKinsey 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 19, 2013

I never intended to disrupt my career over and again, eventually becoming a free agent. When my husband was on the hunt for an academic job after completing his PhD, his choices were Boston and San Antonio, both of which had the potential to cut my Wall Street career short. Certainly that has been the case for me.

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MBO Learning Curve Christensen Trends 11

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 26, 2013

He pointed out that companies had much more to gain in the short-term, and therefore were tooled to compete, by exploiting opportunities already found than by exploring the business landscape for new ones. Geoffrey Moore once compared big companies trying to innovate to right-handed people writing with their left hands.

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Core Competence Innovation Christensen Disruptive Innovation 11

N2Growth Blog

JANUARY 13, 2011

There are iterative steps that we all go through to validate the worth of an idea with ever-increasing detail in each iteration until the company can confirm that an idea should be embraced. This may be the first time in my career that I've been accused of taking a standard management approach.:) via n2growth.com [.]

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Blog Innovation Strategic Planning Brand 384

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 15, 2011

I had worked on a variety of volunteer projects with Clayton Christensen over several years, which led to an overlap of exchanges, including having several common acquaintances. When he and his son Matt decided to launch Rose Park, a nationwide search for a company president didn't take place. They came straight to me.

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Christensen Project Social Capital Banking 15

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 11, 2012

Invariably, many people will think some of the choices are poor or that the list is incomplete, but I hope it can serve as a start for young business leaders looking for literature to help them chart their careers. Jim Collins, Good to Great: Why Some Companies Make the Leap.and Others Don't. Marcus Aurelius, The Emperor's Handbook.

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Books Cialdini Christensen Collins 22

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 11, 2012

Invariably, many people will think some of the choices are poor or that the list is incomplete, but I hope it can serve as a start for young business leaders looking for literature to help them chart their careers. Jim Collins, Good to Great: Why Some Companies Make the Leap.and Others Don't. Marcus Aurelius, The Emperor's Handbook.

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Books Cialdini Christensen Collins 18

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 23, 2015

The executive team of a consumer healthcare company had concluded that the rise of new competitors meant the company needed to up its innovation game. The company had spent the past two decades focused on implementing Six Sigma processes across the enterprise and it was primed to execute on the best and smartest ideas.

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Innovation Company Six Sigma Constraint 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 16, 2012

Communities of practice, where they share a common career or field of business, will extend your offer because it extends their expertise (like McAfee mavens ). Many of you know of Clay Christensen's iconic work the Innovators Dilemma. Everything. Disrupting How We Work. In particular some 80% of their business resources are fluid.

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Christensen Business Model Decentralization Innovation 16

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 11, 2013

When I suggested to Clayton Christensen that we partner with Hatkoff to create the Tribeca Disruptive Innovation Awards , Clay’s response was : I trust you Whitney. Celine Schillinger sought to change the leadership landscape of Sanofi, a major pharmaceutical company. If you say we should, let’s do it.

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Innovation Christensen Decisionmaking CTO 12

Harvard Business Review

MAY 20, 2013

In a world of layoffs, outsourcing, and industry disruption, the only "career insurance" you can get is through figuring out the answer to one particular question: how can you make yourself truly valuable professionally? How can you make yourself a connector in your company, and share information with those that need it?

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Advice Learning-by-Doing Career Open-book 13

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 19, 2012

My own publisher, HBS Press, published two the very same month as my book — one of them co-authored by heavyweight Clay Christensen. In many cases it dramatically changed how a company thought about both diversity and innovation. Your organization, career, even life can change in a single moment. Lucky thing, that. "I

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Succession Diversity Open-book Innovation 17

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 24, 2014

I had worked for several businesses during my career by that time that had become conglomerates, some fairly large, and then had divested themselves of various businesses. I’m on the board of Time Warner, we have just parsed off our third major part — our original company, Time Inc., There are companies entirely focused on touring.

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How To Technology Industry Venture Capitalist 15

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 4, 2014

Pepsi never earned that particular mission and therefore consumers saw little need to reward the company for its efforts. McDonald’s has a great business in India, where beef is taboo and the company must cater to strict vegetarian diets. Its founder, Saul Kaplan , is a self-professed innovation junkie. The contrast is stark.

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Media Marketing Strategy Groupthink Kaplan 8

The Horizons Tracker

FEBRUARY 2, 2020

To date, 20 startups have been created and sit alongside over 50 multinational companies, including Cisco, Microsoft, General Electric, and a who’s who of the global oil and gas community. Core sectors. Curating inspiration.

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