Harvard Business Review

JUNE 28, 2012

Whitney Johnson , president and cofounder of Rose Park Advisors, applies Harvard Business School professor Clayton Christensen's concept of disruptive innovation to a creative career path.

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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. Even in the middle of my career, it felt like a punch to the solar plexus. Love your returns. Of course, no one deserves to go unnoticed.

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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.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 25, 2014

The financial risk of a career in entrepreneurship is the chance of spending 20 years in startups with nothing to show for it — neither money nor an impact on the world. In financial terms, focuses expertise is a call option on other careers, and it increases your chance of startup success, to boot. Career planning Entrepreneurship'

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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. Six years into my mid-career move, here are some lessons learned from my personal disruptive trajectory: If it feels scary and lonely, you're probably on the right track.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 14, 2011

Or consider the influence of Clayton Christensen, who tops the new ranking. Christensen's influence on the business world has been profound. In recent years, for instance, Christensen has applied his ideas to healthcare and education — showing how enlightened management thinking can tackle the big issues facing society.

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LDRLB

MAY 26, 2014

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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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 26, 2012

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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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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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. Becoming a new manager is an important leadership passage in your career.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 7, 2015

But they worry about “flexibility stigma”—the likelihood that they’ll be labeled less than fully committed to work if they avail themselves of arrangements like flex time and paternity leave — and as a result suffer negative job and career consequences. For the U.S. This is the flexibility stigma at work.)

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 19, 2013

I never intended to disrupt my career over and again, eventually becoming a free agent. When my husband was on the hunt for an academic job after completing his PhD, his choices were Boston and San Antonio, both of which had the potential to cut my Wall Street career short. Certainly that has been the case for me.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 25, 2011

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. Looking at it from a " jobs-to-be-done " perspective, a prospective mentee is usually trying to get the functional job done of advancing his career.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 26, 2013

It''s a point that Clay Christensen put his own twist on with The Innovator''s Dilemma : Even when leaders know intellectually that groundbreaking innovation is imperative, they find themselves investing in incremental refinements to please their most sophisticated customers, and leave themselves wide open to disruption by upstarts.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 16, 2012

Harvard Business School professor Clayton Christensen, during his battle with cancer, helped answer his own ethical questions by looking inward. At the end of his Harvard Business Review article, "How Will You Measure Your Life?,"

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 11, 2015

” That would neither be in line with our primary objectives, nor fit our consultants’ career expectations. Christensen, Dina Wang, and Derek van Bever predicted the disruption of elite consulting firms. If we accepted all such requests, we would end up with 30 “chiefs of staff” or “operations leads.”

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 19, 2013

Questions alone might be clever, but as Jeff Dyer, Clayton Christensen, and I found in our research behind The Innovator''s DNA , they rarely produce positive impacts. What you discover in this questioning quest might not only surprise you, but may also unearth an entirely new direction for your team, organization, or career.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 1, 2017

To borrow Clayton Christensen’s phrase, our hotel laundry’s “job to be done” is not cleaning dirty clothes; it is preserving and enhancing our guests’ sense of participation in the world of fashion. Fashion and clothing were central to the guest experience — much more so than we had realized.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 15, 2011

I had worked on a variety of volunteer projects with Clayton Christensen over several years, which led to an overlap of exchanges, including having several common acquaintances. Yet, if we distill the three reasons into one, we network because we need to get something done, now or in the future, and we can't do it alone.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 11, 2016

Renowned management thinker Clay Christensen recommends spending time formulating the right questions. .” It’s critical that your colleagues view you as someone who is resourceful and independent enough to bring something new to the table instead of just stopping every time there is a bump in the road.

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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. Christensen, The Innovator's Dilemma: When New Technologies Cause Great Firms to Fail.

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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. Christensen, The Innovator's Dilemma: When New Technologies Cause Great Firms to Fail.

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Books Cialdini Christensen Collins 18

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 16, 2014

As Harvard Business School professor Clay Christensen described in his mega-bestseller How Will You Measure Your Life? (with Karen Dillon and James Allworth), the ROI of work is immediately apparent. For many top performers, the idea of dialing back on work is also disturbing because they fear it will torpedo their career.

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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 ). 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.

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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? But those paths, the ones you learned about in your career offices aren''t the only ones afforded to you.

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Advice Learning-by-Doing Career Open-book 13

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

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 19, 2012

My own publisher, HBS Press, published two the very same month as my book — one of them co-authored by heavyweight Clay Christensen. Ask for the keys to career success and you'll get logical explanations, recommendations, pathways and approaches. Your organization, career, even life can change in a single moment.

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Succession Diversity Open-book Innovation 17

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 23, 2015

But inside most companies, working on something that “fails” commercially carries significant stigma, if not outright career risk. .” Indeed, the academic literature suggests that almost every commercial success had a failure somewhere in its lineage. It’s no surprise that people play it safe!

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 8, 2013

And it''s not just behaviors in the workplace that Lean In takes this approach — it''s in career management, too. There is far more to life than climbing a career ladder, including raising children, seeking personal fulfillment, contributing to society, and improving the lives of others." Career planning Gender Leadership'

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 24, 2014

I had worked for several businesses during my career by that time that had become conglomerates, some fairly large, and then had divested themselves of various businesses. HBR: Clay Christensen has described this progression in technology from the integrated product to the modular. Barksdale: That’s right.

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How To Technology Industry Venture Capitalist 15

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. Its founder, Saul Kaplan , is a self-professed innovation junkie. The contrast is stark.

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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. As one data point, while something in the range of 1.9% of the U.S. For the record, I am staunchly independent.

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