Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 8, 2017

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. Help connect work deliverables or professional development to what’s happening at the organizational level. Don’t dilute your message.

Management 15

Management Emotional Intelligence Leadership Drotter 15

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 25, 2011

While it's written from my perspective, he was central to the development of the idea. An engineer, designer, serial entrepreneur, investor, and researcher, he has developed 1,000+ products/services and has collaborated with Clay Christensen at HBS for more than 15 years. Drive = How motivated is the mentee?

Mentor 15

Mentor Christensen Incubator Learning-by-Doing 15

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 11, 2015

Like any firm in need of business development, we build relationships with executives across the company, and pitch proposals. ” That would neither be in line with our primary objectives, nor fit our consultants’ career expectations. Win on merit. Our group welcomes the competition. Exceed client expectations.

Consultative 8

Consultative Team How To McKinsey 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 1, 2017

By diving into the data, we were able to dramatically reduce customer dissatisfaction, increase customer loyalty, and develop new, differentiating service offerings. Figuring Out What Our Customers Wanted. Fashion and clothing were central to the guest experience — much more so than we had realized.

Hotels 8

Hotels Fashion Budgeting Retail 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 11, 2016

Renowned management thinker Clay Christensen recommends spending time formulating the right questions. But forming broad, deep relationships within your team and throughout the organization can help you manage your current responsibilities while also boosting personal development. Ask questions — good ones.

Critical Success Factor 8

Critical Success Factor Ryan Christensen Advice 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 11, 2012

Reading has a host of benefits for those who wish to occupy positions of leadership and develop into more relaxed, empathetic, and well-rounded people. Christensen, The Innovator's Dilemma: When New Technologies Cause Great Firms to Fail. Recently, I wrote that leaders should be readers. That's a tough question.

Books 21

Books Cialdini Christensen Collins 21

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 11, 2012

Reading has a host of benefits for those who wish to occupy positions of leadership and develop into more relaxed, empathetic, and well-rounded people. Christensen, The Innovator's Dilemma: When New Technologies Cause Great Firms to Fail. Recently, I wrote that leaders should be readers. That's a tough question.

Books 17

Books Cialdini Christensen Collins 17

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. Their business model allows them to persistently review "what's the next big thing" and adjust.

Christensen 15

Christensen Business Model Decentralization Innovation 15

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? Those paths were developed by people who rely on process and rules to tame the chaos that is life. Maxwell Wessel.

Advice 12

Advice Learning-by-Doing Career Open-book 12

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. Today, she’s the Head of Stakeholder Engagement for their in-development Dengue Fever vaccine — one of Sanofi’s largest business initiatives.

Innovation 11

Innovation Christensen Decisionmaking CTO 11

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 19, 2012

The obvious targets were people in the field of innovation — those working in strategy, R&D, business development, and entrepreneurship. My own publisher, HBS Press, published two the very same month as my book — one of them co-authored by heavyweight Clay Christensen. In response, I usually tell the following story.

Succession 17

Succession Diversity Open-book Innovation 17

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 23, 2015

This doesn’t necessarily mean setting up a department, but at the very least develop a set of criteria by which to judge ideas and have suggestions for how the best ideas can be acted on. But inside most companies, working on something that “fails” commercially carries significant stigma, if not outright career risk.

Innovation 8

Innovation Company Six Sigma Constraint 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 4, 2014

After a successful career as a corporate consultant, he became the Director of Economic Development for Rhode Island, a cabinet level position, where he saw the opportunity to put his ideas into action and create innovation at scale. American Express has developed “Small Business Saturday.” The contrast is stark.

Media 8

Media Marketing Strategy Groupthink Kaplan 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 17, 2012

Consider the following examples: The #1 Management Thinker on the Thinkers 50 list is Clay Christensen , Harvard Business School professor and author of The Innovator's Dilemma , which introduced the idea of disruptive innovation. Fourth, a focus on developing leaders. As one data point, while something in the range of 1.9% of the U.S.

Management 9

Management Covey Ulrich Christensen 9