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Stop Reinventing Disruption

Harvard Business Review

Both articles espoused slightly new definitions of disruption, expanding the categorization of the world that Clay Christensen introduced us to more than 20 years ago. Simply put, the argument for "high-end" disruption is a bad one. Disruption shouldn't be a term used to describe any successful innovation.

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If You Want to Lead, Read These 10 Books

Harvard Business Review

The Innovator's Dilemma by Clayton Christensen (which is also on John Coleman's list) builds on the notion of a growth mindset more specifically within a business context. Whether disruptive innovation involves a product, service, company, or especially, an individual, Christensen provides a robust theory for learning how to lead.

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Ask Customers to Use Less of Your Product: The Big Heresy

Harvard Business Review

Xerox has worked with multinationals such as Dow (case study here ) to drastically reduce the number of printers sitting in individual offices by thousands, shifting instead to many fewer centrally-located multifunction devices. But at the core, what Xerox is offering is less total printing. That's a big shift in business as usual.

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Stop Talking About Social and Do It

Harvard Business Review

This five-part series has shared case studies and examples of how the social era affects all areas of the business model: how we create, deliver, and capture value. Disrupting How We Work. Many of you know of Clay Christensen's iconic work the Innovators Dilemma. Everything.