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Disruptive Business Models | N2Growth Blog

N2Growth Blog

While much has been written about corporate vision, mission, process, leadership, strategy, branding and a variety of other business practices, it is the engineering of these practices to be disruptive that maximizes opportunities. My engagements with CEOs often focus on helping them to embrace change through disruptive innovation.

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New Year. New Leader.

Lead Change Blog

Perhaps it is some combination of them, some attainable format for effective leadership that requires work, certainly, but that also works. 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.

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Overcoming the Barriers to Corporate Entrepreneurship

Strategy Driven

How do organizations achieve longevity, the kind of longevity that survives long past the founder or any particular leader or leadership team? This can be done by building alliances of support, having reputable endorsements, establishing high quantity, and using means such as discounts or samples to build a market presence.

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0511 | Larry Downes: Full Transcript

LDRLB

One of the things I think is most interesting is there’s a lot of old models of innovation and of strategy that I won’t say they don’t necessarily apply anymore, but they apply to very, very, almost static markets. In that sense, the Christensen solution has become counterproductive; in fact, it’s become dangerous.

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A Leap Year Lesson on Correcting Leadership Drift

Harvard Business Review

Not a bad metaphor for work, life, and leadership. But the Kodak ship ultimately drifted so far away from a changing market that no leap year could save it. Easier than we all think (and Clayton Christensen's The Innovator's Dilemma is one of the best books around on leadership drift). We live in a world of uncertainty.

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The Failure of Yahoo's Board

Harvard Business Review

After 30 contentious months, Carol Bartz is out as the CEO of Yahoo. Clayton Christensen has long been a proponent of hiring managers with the right " schools of experience." Christensen's theory, however, could have predicted this failure. Yahoo needs new leadership with the right school of experience to make a difference.

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Mindfulness Helps You Become a Better Leader

Harvard Business Review

As markets rose and bonus pools grew, it was all too easy to celebrate the rising tide of wealth without examining the process that created it. I had begun to focus too much on impressing other people and positioning myself to become CEO. But then, Christensen says, they started making exceptions to the rules "just this once.".