LDRLB

APRIL 27, 2020

Their most known for the debut product, a biodegradable smartphone case. Unlike nearly every other smartphone case, their products aren’t made from plastic. They found out how to take waste products from farming and turn them into a moldable plastic. But within 10 years, Pela’s products become waste-free.

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Mission Statement Organization Company Business Model 78

N2Growth Blog

OCTOBER 10, 2010

If you cannot turn an idea into innovation, if you can’t put thought into practice, it’s not a game changer. Leaders focused on products, profits, processes, and procedures are aiming too LOW. If it’s not really meaningful, it’s not a game changer so why do it? Focus on value creation. Thanks for laying out key success factors.

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Blog Media Open-book Learning-by-Doing 322

Marshall Goldsmith

JUNE 28, 2017

Whitney Johnson – Thinkers 50 award-winning Management Thinker 2015-17, Disruptive Innovation expert, author Disrupt Yourself: Putting the Power of Disruptive Innovation to Work. Telisa Yancy – Executive vice president and champion of customers, employees, growth, and innovation for American Family Insurance.

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Executive Coaching Human Resources Magazine CEO 70

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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Blog Innovation Strategic Planning Brand 384

Skip Prichard

AUGUST 2, 2019

Technology change is speeding business up and providing an edge for disruptive innovators. It used to be that you could learn the core skills for a career in college and graduate school – think management, accounting, law – and then apply it over forty years. How will AI impact the bulletproof approach?

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Disaggregation McKinsey Skills Gordon 79

LDRLB

MAY 26, 2014

You are also the author of a ton of different stuff around this idea of disruption, the most recent one being- I’m making sure I get this title right. The most recent being Big Bang Disruption: Strategy in the Age of Devastating Innovation. You call it this big bang disruption. DAVID: Yeah.

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Early Adopters Rogers Disruptive Innovation Innovation 60

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 31, 2014

One of the first, and most lasting, pieces of career advice I received came from Linda Bush, my first project manager when I was a wee pup working at McKinsey & Company. Research by Hal Gregersen and Jeffrey Dyer in fact shows that questioning is one of the behaviors that successful innovators share. It is the innovator’s job.

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Innovation Disruptive Innovation Learning-by-Doing Participative 12

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 5, 2012

Most companies sabotage their own innovation processes without meaning to. Innovation is episodic. We've all seen this movie: A few people in the organization have a burning desire to foster more innovation, or a different kind of innovation, so they invent a new process. It's easy to ax innovation. What to do?

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Process Innovation Diversity Budgeting 16

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 30, 2011

That McDonald's or Pret a Manger is less open to disruptive innovation than El Bulli? If you believe any, or all, of those things, then you're not a business sophisticate, you're an innovation snob. Be warned: uppity attitudes undermine companies and careers. There's nothing innovative about bleach.

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Innovation Disruptive Innovation Technology Fashion 14

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. Time to disrupt myself. We typically define disruption as a low-end product or service that eventually upends an industry.

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Disruptive Innovation Christensen Metrics Innovation 17

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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Career Christensen Disruptive Innovation Travel 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 8, 2014

Higher education, however, is in the midst of dramatic, disruptive change. It is, to use the language of innovation theorists and practitioners, being unbundled. But there are also entire sectors of the innovation economy that are ceasing to rely on traditional credentials and don’t even bother with the skeumorph of an adapted degree.

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Education Disruptive Innovation Software Engineering 14

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 25, 2023

The authors predict that AI will emerge not merely as a technological marvel, but as a beacon of hope in addressing demographic and productivity challenges. With AI’s influence, their projections suggest a potential resurgence in global GDP growth, envisioning a substantial boost to the global economy by 2032.

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GDP Analysis Globalization Influence 25

Roundtable Talk

JUNE 22, 2010

Plan: Plans need to be continually reviewed to keep the team on track Productivity (Measures & Accountability): assigning tasks, measuring success and rewarding results are an oft overlooked element of successful team development.

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Tips Team Bottom-up Teamwork 34

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 28, 2016

During the last five years of my corporate management career, I had a great deal of leadership development. It’s far more stimulating to, say, examine productivity in China than to teach someone how to do an effective employee evaluation. At the latter stages of their careers, most senior managers are pretty set in their ways.

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Training Development Management Budgeting 14

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 27, 2012

The fact of the matter is that periodically, technologies or business model innovations allow start-ups to enter industries offering services that are generally cheaper and more accessible, but of far lower quality. This is the essence of what we call "disruptive innovation."

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Rogers Telecommunications Disruptive Innovation Innovation 15

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 27, 2011

In the Economist review of our book, The Innovator's DNA , the reviewer wondered whether genius-level innovators such as Marc Benioff, Jeff Bezos, and Steve Jobs challenge the idea that working adults can really learn how to think differently and become innovators. Innovators excel at connecting the unconnected.

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How To Innovation Creativity Disruptive Innovation 16

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 26, 2013

Ballmer, whose skills were in many ways complementary to Gates'', took the helm of an already massive organization as it entered an era of relentless disruptive innovation by competitors. The debate has focused almost entirely on the leadership of innovation. But every organization needs one core competence: innovation.".

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Core Competence Innovation Christensen Disruptive Innovation 10

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 27, 2017

Meanwhile, business was free to focus on generating growth, productivity, innovation, and, ultimately, societal wealth. Software, sensors, and analytics are shifting value creation from stand-alone products to combinations of products and services. Essential background. “People Are Angry About Globalization.

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Globalization Supply Chain Human Capital Long-term 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 3, 2012

According to Méndez-García, one of the best models for making sense of a non-linear world is the S-curve , the model we have used to understand the diffusion of disruptive innovations, and which he and I speculate can be used to understand personal disruption — the necessary pivots in our own career paths.

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Learning Curve Market Penetration Disruptive Innovation Kaplan 10

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 17, 2012

SUGAR AND SPICE AND DISRUPTIVE INNOVATION. Imagining pouring a decade of work into a product. Wired) The Geography of American’s Who Work From Home (Atlantic Cities) History's Most Famous Serial Career Changers (OnlineCollege.org). Female Leaders Make Startups Successful (Bloomberg Businessweek). Time to panic, right?

Marketing 8

Marketing Rate of Return Disruptive Innovation Letter 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 17, 2012

This is the second leg of the HBR/McKinsey M-Prize for Management Innovation and a call for inspiring stories, bold ideas, and instructive experiments that demonstrate what can happen when you scrap compliance, conformance and predictability for freedom, passion, and dynamism. Packaging up Management Innovation. Story by Richard Wray.

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Bureaucracy McKinsey Compliance Innovation 14

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 12, 2016

First impressions matter so much because they happen fast, and they are stubborn , says Whitney Johnson , the author of Disrupt Yourself: Putting the Power of Disruptive Innovation to Work. Perhaps your direct reports tend to get promoted faster or your team is more productive. What the Experts Say. ” Follow up. .

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How To Bond Discount Case Study 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 12, 2011

A prescient call provides career rocket fuel, while the wrong one can be career limiting. This pundit makes bold predictions about a product or service he's never used. I ran into this trap when I started getting excited about Research in Motion's Playbook before the product had even been officially launched.

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Press Release Strategy Long-term Video 12

Chart Your Course

JUNE 30, 2016

Sinek entered mainstream business awareness with his TED talk, in which he introduces a deceptively simple model called “the golden circle” made up of three layers: What (Product), How (Process), and Why (Purpose). According to Sinek, great companies and leaders start with the “Why” layer. By David Ulrich.

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Human Resources Talent Management Resources Ulrich 100

Harvard Business Review

MAY 5, 2011

The most successful companies, products, and brands have figured out how to become the most of something — not just adequate, but downright amazing. Gerard van Grinsven, West Bloomfield's CEO, joined Henry Ford after a long career with Ritz-Carlton. "I There's no excuse to settle for "good enough" anymore.

How To 16

How To Hotels Health Care Fashion 16

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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Innovation Christensen Decisionmaking CTO 11

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 20, 2011

A vast ideological gap on macro-economic policy divides Washington and much of the nation, but there is almost universal agreement on one solution: innovation. Innovation is now perceived as a panacea for job creation, income generation, economic growth, dollar strength, and the revival of the U.S. as global hegemon.

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Innovation Supply Chain Offshoring Policies 12

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 16, 2012

Competition" has changed when individuals can create value through a centralized network of resources: for example, designing a product from anywhere, producing it through a 3D factory , financing it through community and distribution from anywhere to anywhere. Disrupting How We Work. What could you do together? Everything.

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Christensen Business Model Decentralization Innovation 16

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 13, 2013

Even the United Kingdom did away with tenure in the late 1980s when then-Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher implored the nation's colleges to become more productive. Tenure locks in big costs and makes it difficult for universities to explore more productive teaching techniques.

Engineering 10

Engineering Education Class Automotive 10

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 10, 2011

That was certainly true for Jane Harper, who spent a nearly 30-year career at IBM asking the kinds of questions most people don't want to touch. Polly LaBarre is editorial director of the Management Innovation Exchange. Asking good questions trades control for contribution.

Organization 15

Organization Open-book Bureaucracy CEO 15

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 25, 2015

We’ve all heard by now that productivity decreases with overwork, while attrition and health care costs increase. This is popular both with lawyers who self-identify as stay-at-home parents and with those who have second careers (Counsel on Call is headquartered in Nashville and provides day jobs for musician-lawyers there).

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Real Estate Attrition Entrepreneur Business Model 8