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World Innovation Forum - Clay Christensen

CEO Blog

First speaker is one of my favorites - Clay Christensen. I love the stimulation I get from going to seminars like this. Attending and listening to speakers helps plant the seeds of innovation in my mind. Of course he spoke about disruptive innovation. He is a young guy but recently suffered from a stroke. Seems to be recovering well though.

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35 Leadership Quotes from the 10th Global Peter Drucker Forum

Leading Blog

The most important person is not the CEO, but the person facing a challenge. CEOs should spend some time on a retreat and reflect, read Plato, think more of philosophy. The CEO needs to take up the leadership challenge to help others respond to that. Tim Brown, President and CEO, IDEO. ? Peter Oswald, CEO, Mondi Group. ?

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Leadership and Management Book Talk #8: Robert Iger and The Ride of a Lifetime

Art Petty

Reading Robert Iger's The Ride of a Lifetime: Lessons Learned from 15 Years as CEO of the Walt Disney Company was truly a joy. Wally Bock concurred, and we go on in this fun Leadership and Management Book Talk podcast episode to share the many reasons why we both love this book! .

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Blogging on Business Update from Bob Morris (Week of 4/29/13)

First Friday Book Synopsis

I hope that at least a few of these recent posts will be of interest to you: BOOK REVIEWS Customer CEO: How to Profit from the Power of Your Customers Chuck Wall The Referral Engine: Teaching Your Business to Market Itself John Jantsch Disney U : How Disney University Develops the World’s Most Engaged, Loyal, [.].

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The Value of Vision Series – Introduction

Jesse Lyn Stoner Blog

Whitney Johnson – Co-founder of Rose Park Advisors, Clayton Christensen’s investment firm, and author of Dare-Dream-Do. Doug Conant – Former CEO of Campbell Soup. Jim Kouzes and Barry Posner – Authors of The Leadership Challenge. Shilpa Jain – Executive Director of YES! Tanvi Gautam – Managing Partner, Global People Tree.

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New Year. New Leader.

Lead Change Blog

To help us piece this together, I’ve invited fifteen different thought leaders, authors, editors, and CEOs to collaborate with me to parse this question and share their opinions. Shawn Murphy – He is a writer and Co-founder/CEO of Switch and Shift. Would you like to meet my team?

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Disruptive Business Models | N2Growth Blog

N2Growth Blog

My engagements with CEOs often focus on helping them to embrace change through disruptive innovation. Bottom line…don’t be the CEO who causes your management team to continually say “the boss won’t go for that one.&# or my personal favorite, “We need to focus on our core business.&#