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2012 Best Books on Leadership, Innovation and Strategy

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How Will You Measure Your Life by Clay Christensen, James Allworth & Karen Murphy. Clay Christensen new book helps build that foundation by taking well-research business concepts and outlining how to apply them to your own life. Innovation. Leapfrogging is a powerful book in how surprise powers innovative breakthroughs.

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The Value of Vision Series – Whitney Johnson

Jesse Lyn Stoner Blog

Whitney Johnson is a leading thinker on driving innovation via personal disruption and a co-founder of Clayton Christensen’s investment firm Rose Park Advisors. Erin Newkirk, the founder of RedStamp , provides a good case study in grappling with this paradox.

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Michael E. Raynor: An interview by Bob Morris

First Friday Book Synopsis

In his client projects and research, Michael explores the challenges of corporate strategy, innovation and growth. However, as he once observed, ”Case studies of past results are a weak foundation for predicting future outcomes. And the increasingly popular ‘fail fast to learn [.].

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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. Disruption shouldn't be a term used to describe any successful innovation. Over the course of the past few weeks, two articles crossed my desk touching on this issue.

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Too Much Team Harmony Can Kill Creativity

Harvard Business Review

Consistent with these famous case studies, scientific research shows that creativity and innovation can be enhanced by reducing team harmony. Angela Merkel and Nicolas Sarkozy played a big role in stabilizing Europe after the 2008 financial crisis, but they made an odd couple in public and mocked each other in private.

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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.