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Christensen on How to Measure Your Life

LDRLB

(Ironically, a large number of them are written by individuals with little career success other than writing about career success). With that I picked up Clayton Christensen’s How Will You Measure Your Lif e. Christensen is one of the giant minds behind strategy and innovation. David Burkus is the editor of LDRLB.

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Mindful Leadership And Personal Values

Joseph Lalonde

Clayton Christensen, a Harvard Professor says that only few people tend to hurt others and be dishonest in the initial stages of their career. However, as the time passes by and they climb the leadership ladder, they start making assumptions to the rules and their definition of success changes. This is a guest post by Ali Jafri.

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Disruptive Business Models | N2Growth Blog

N2Growth Blog

While much has been written about corporate vision, mission, process, leadership, strategy, branding and a variety of other business practices, it is the engineering of these practices to be disruptive that maximizes opportunities. link] LEADERSHIP : Disruptive Business Models – N2Growth Blog « Tech4buziness – Eng [.]

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How New Managers Can Send the Right Leadership Signals

Harvard Business Review

One of the most exciting and — sometimes anxiety-producing transitions in a career — comes when you move from being an individual contributor to becoming a manager. So, as a new manager, how do you build an authentic and connected leadership presence that has a positive impact on your team and colleagues?

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Mindfulness Helps You Become a Better Leader

Harvard Business Review

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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0511 | Larry Downes: Full Transcript

LDRLB

In that sense, the Christensen solution has become counterproductive; in fact, it’s become dangerous. It’s not generally a technology problem; it’s a leadership problem. One of the reasons, I think, for that is, like you said, it’s a leadership issue, but it’s also what models are you using. DAVID: Yeah.

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Ideas Don't Equal Innovation | N2Growth Blog

N2Growth Blog

In order for your enterprise to turn an idea into a monetizing and/or value creating event you should develop a strategic plan that attempts to measure the idea against the following 15 elements: 1. It should be developed as a solution to a problem or to exploit an opportunity. It must be actionable through tactical implementation.

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