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Disrupt Yourself

Lead Change Blog

As president and co-founder of Rose Park Advisors’ Disruptive Innovation Fund with Clayton Christensen, Whitney Johnson utilized the theory of disruptive innovation to invest in publicly traded stocks and private early stage companies. This movement was all over the news, internet, and social media.

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Disruptive Business Models | N2Growth Blog

N2Growth Blog

Has your business embraced social media? Significance Your Story Matters Service Above Self Capital vs. Influence Dealing with Tough Times The Lost Art of Brevity The Leadership Vacuum Shut-up & Listen Stop Selling and Add Value Social Media Influence The Influence Factor Ideas Dont Equal Innovation Indispensable? I Think Not.

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Just because you can make an omelet, doesn’t mean you’re a restaurateur!

Mills Scofield

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. Saul cites Whitney Johnson’s description of what jobs social media does for her [3].

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Three Ways to Overcome Career Anxiety

Harvard Business Review

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. Gone are the days where working for LargeCo meant a career for life.

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Disrupt Yourself

Harvard Business Review

When I decided to leave Wall Street, I was the Senior Media and Telecom analyst for Latin America at Merrill Lynch, and the top-ranked analyst in my field. 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.

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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. Because when these innovations show up, they are better and cheaper right from the start. If you’ve been waiting for them to enter the market and start to establish their customers before you do anything, you’ve now waited too long.

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How Our Hotel Used Data to Make Our Laundry Service Glamorous

Harvard Business Review

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. In addition, fashion has become a larger part of our social media outreach.

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