N2Growth Blog

JANUARY 13, 2011

As a result of our conversation, I decided to dust-off an old post, give it a few updates, and pass along my thoughts, which can be best summarized as “ Ideas Don’t Equal Innovation. “ It is my hope to help dispel the myth that ideas are inherently good things.

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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. Or as thought leader Jennifer Sertl writes, "innovation ultimately begins on the inside.". The term "disruptive innovation" has become an industry buzzword.

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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. I started out designing cars.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 5, 2012

When Clay Christensen, his son Matt, and I first launched Rose Park Advisors, we considered bringing on investors at the GP (general partner) level. During one of these conversations, a prospective investor turned to Clay, and said (paraphrasing), "Love disruptive innovation theory. Love your returns. I felt invisible.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 14, 2011

Think of Charles Darwin, the ultimate disruptive innovator. 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.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 1, 2017

Our innovation team, at 45 Park Lane, in London, started by compiling data about our guests’ clothing behaviors and our hotel laundry processes, getting housekeeping and bell staff involved, as well as searching social media for customer posts. We are rolling out these innovations, and more, to our other hotels.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 11, 2013

Four years ago, Craig Hatkoff, co-founder of the Tribeca Film Festival, approached me about a brainstorm: an event recognizing and celebrating breakthrough innovators. 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.

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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. Richard Tedlow, Giants of Enterprise: Seven Business Innovators and the Empires They Built.

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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. A creativity consultant said to signal that it was a new era in the organization, all of the top executives should dress up as innovation superheroes. The problem was clear.

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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. Richard Tedlow, Giants of Enterprise: Seven Business Innovators and the Empires They Built.

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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 ). This can change how we organize every single part of these organizations — from what we make, to how we product and distribute, to how we market and sell. Everything.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 19, 2012

The book did quite well — it has been translated into 18 languages at this point, become part of the ongoing innovation dialogue, allowed me to present ideas to executives across the world, and to build a unique consulting firm with clients on six continents. Once the book had been written, I had to market it.

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The Horizons Tracker

FEBRUARY 2, 2020

Qatar have attempted to overcome this via the creation of the Qatar Foundation in 1995, which aimed to unlock the human potential of the nation via education, innovation and entrepreneurship. Core sectors.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 4, 2014

All too often, when marketers talk about their “social strategy,” they really mean a digital marketing strategy implemented on social platforms, rather than using social dynamics to benefit their business. Pepsi actually lost market share and fell to number three in the cola wars for the first time in modern history.

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