N2Growth Blog
JUNE 14, 2010
As a CEO, I would strongly suggest you conduct a gut check during your next executive meeting by counting the number of times you hear your CXOs say things like: “That will never work,&# &# We can’t do that,&# “That’s not my problem,&# “We’ve always done it that way.&#
Harvard Business Review
MARCH 24, 2016
But this confidence served as a platform that allowed Andy to learn important things from every person — even Clayton Christensen. He was a powerful executive because he understood how organizations really operate and could harness this knowledge. He had a high level of self-esteem, of course. He was confident in his abilities.
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Mills Scofield
APRIL 15, 2012
Long before it became fashionable, Saul was leveraging the power of business models in his career. ” Clayton Christensen , an advisor to BIF, taught us that customers are hiring companies to “do a job” for them. If you want your organization to survive and thrive well into the 21 st Century, read this book.
Chart Your Course
JUNE 30, 2016
Studies show that a person’s emotional intelligence (the ability to manage one’s own emotions and the emotions of others) is not only more important than their IQ, but the single most important variable in career and life success. The Effective Executive: The Definitive Guide to Getting the Right Things Done (1967).
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. Christensen. What the Experts Say. ” But rarely are those the things that translate to satisfaction.
Harvard Business Review
OCTOBER 26, 2012
This happened to me in 1988, when I was an executive vice president at Honeywell, en route to the top. My colleague, Harvard Professor Clayton Christensen, addressed this topic in his HBR article, How Will You Measure Your Life? But then, Christensen says, they started making exceptions to the rules "just this once.".
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?" Several years ago Clayton Christensen (author of The Innovator's Dilemma ) and colleagues at Innosight coined the phrase "jobs-to-be-done" as part of a methodology they use to build new billion dollar businesses.
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