Eric Jacobson

NOVEMBER 15, 2017

"The clearer your company culture, the less likely it will be hijacked by the weaker personalities in your team," explains Mary Christensen , author of the book, Be A Network Marketing Leader. "A Christensen's recommended eight guidelines are: We respect each other.

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Art Petty

MARCH 10, 2020

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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Eric Jacobson

NOVEMBER 3, 2016

"The clearer your company culture, the less likely it will be hijacked by the weaker personalities in your team," explains Mary Christensen , author of the book, Be A Network Marketing Leader. "A Christensen's recommended eight guidelines are: We respect each other.

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Eric Jacobson

MARCH 20, 2017

"The clearer your company culture, the less likely it will be hijacked by the weaker personalities in your team," explains Mary Christensen , author of the book, Be A Network Marketing Leader. "A Christensen's recommended eight guidelines are: We respect each other.

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LDRLB

DECEMBER 10, 2012

Leadership. 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. The world is a busy place, especially for those in leadership.

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Next Level Blog

MAY 26, 2020

As I wrote about back then , my biggest and most valuable takeaway from that trip was being able to see how much time and effort the leadership and crew spent in preparing for things that could happen. About nine years ago, I had the opportunity to spend the weekend on a Coast Guard cutter off the Florida Straits.

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Engaging Leader

SEPTEMBER 15, 2014

Jeff Dyer’s previous book The Innovator’s DNA, co-authored with by Clayton Christensen and Hal Gregersen, is a bestseller, has already been published in more than 13 languages, and won the 2011 Innovation Book of the Year Award from Chartered Management Institute.

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Tanveer Naseer

DECEMBER 15, 2015

Whitney is the co-founder of Rose Park Advisors, an investment firm she co-founded with renowned innovation thinker Clayton Christensen. In addition to writing for the Harvard Business Review and LinkedInfluencer, Whitney’s work has been featured in Fast Company, BBC, CNN, The Guardian, and several other media outlets.

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Jesse Lyn Stoner Blog

JUNE 13, 2013

Although he wasn’t clear about his vision for the company, he just wanted help writing a good statement that would satisfy the board. To explore this further, I have invited several leadership experts and thought-leaders to join me in sharing their views. Jim Kouzes and Barry Posner – Authors of The Leadership Challenge.

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First Friday Book Synopsis

DECEMBER 15, 2013

How to Create a Business Culture That Will Ignite Passion, Engagement, and Innovation Nan Russell True Alignment: Linking Company Culture with Customer Needs for Extraordinary Results Edgar Papke Happiness: A New Perspective James Hadley […].

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Lead Change Blog

DECEMBER 29, 2015

How can we help the company reach the bottom line? Perhaps it is some combination of them, some attainable format for effective leadership that requires work, certainly, but that also works. Bill George – He has taught leadership since 2004 and is a professor of management practice at Harvard Business School, where.

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N2Growth Blog

JUNE 14, 2010

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. So why do so many established and often well managed companies struggle with disruptive innovation?

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LDRLB

JULY 17, 2012

Just look at Blackberry, Blockbuster, Borders, and Kodak – all companies that missed opportunities to leapfrog to the next big thing. In the book, the Innovator’s DNA , Clayton Christensen and colleagues list five behaviors that characterize innovative leaders: associational thinking, questioning, observing, networking and experimenting.

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First Friday Book Synopsis

JUNE 18, 2011

Christensen and Michael E. In a previous work, The Innovator’s Dilemma, Christensen [.]. The Innovator’s Solution: Creating and Sustaining Successful Growth Clayton M. Raynor Harvard Business Press (2003) Note: I read and then reviewed this “business classic” when it was first published and recently re-read it.

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Mike Cardus

NOVEMBER 8, 2013

Hjørland & Sejer Christensen, 2002). Is motivation an area that managers and companies should be concerned? Definition of Relevance : Something (A) is relevant to a task (T) if it increases the likelihood of accomplishing the goal (G), which is implied by T. 1 = What is relevant to people on the team. What do you think?

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Skip Prichard

SEPTEMBER 20, 2020

The number of senior company personnel who see things as they’d like them to be, rather than as they really are, is quite extraordinary. Who better to quote in this instance than the late, great, Clayton Christensen who famously answered this question in his book The Innovator’s Dilemma. ” -Sean Pillot de Chencey. .

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The Horizons Tracker

FEBRUARY 22, 2022

One of the more interesting applications has been “StockCity”, which was developed by Fidelity International to allow traders and investors to traverse a fully 3D virtual city, with buildings representing each stock and complete with pertinent data about that company.

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Mike Cardus

NOVEMBER 28, 2011

Hjørland & Sejer Christensen,2002) Wikipedia. Thinking about this from an Organizational Level – what is relevant to the company? The Relevance Enneagram is a tool that will uncover and focus the organization’s, team’s, staff’s and your values to increase productivity and people who love the work they do.

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Strategy Driven

JUNE 29, 2016

How do organizations achieve longevity, the kind of longevity that survives long past the founder or any particular leader or leadership team? The hard truth is that companies that do not pursue corporate entrepreneurship are doomed. Yet when businesses try to implement entrepreneurial initiatives, these initiatives often fail.

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Deming Institute

JANUARY 19, 2017

In Clayton Christensen’s new book, Competing Against Luck , the authors delve into the importance of gaining a deep understanding of what your customers desire. Edwards Deming and Clayton Christensen understand that the customer is part of the system in a way that most others don’t appreciate. I strongly recommend it.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 30, 2014

Imagine you’re a bright, inquisitive person working for a company with long-established policies and work processes in place (or maybe you don’t have to). What happens next in this scenario could be a good indicator of whether your company has a culture of inquiry or one of acceptance and conformity. Is there a better approach?

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 29, 2012

Not a bad metaphor for work, life, and leadership. Life's a storm for most people, most companies, and most governments. In the end, the disruptive company, think the Brownie camera creator of 1900, became the disrupted company one hundred and twelve years later. When this "leadership drift ratio" exceeds 2:1, watch out.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 13, 2013

When Karl Ronn recently said, "Companies that think they have an innovation problem don't have an innovation problem. They have a leadership problem," I listened carefully. Large companies like IBM, Syngenta, Procter & Gamble, 3M, and Unilever show that innovation can be a repeatable discipline. Have an ideation session!

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 3, 2014

Companies and entrepreneurs can bring a sustainable solution, while unlocking massive economic opportunity, but a change is required from today’s status quo. However, our experiences so far have highlighted opportunities for even broader impact through a different approach to in-house training at African companies.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 13, 2014

The article castigated companies for losing sight of the essence of their business, setting themselves up for challenges from competitors and, ultimately, for obsolescence. And yet, more than 50 years later, companies have become worse, not better, at answering it correctly – far worse. No, it’s to maximize shareholder value.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 19, 2012

Clayton Christensen and Michael Overdorf's "Meeting the Challenge of Disruptive Change" was published 12 years ago, but somehow seems even more relevant and prescient now than it did then. Google prides itself on being a nimble and inventive company, even as it grows larger and larger. The Guru's Guide to Creating Thought Leadership.

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LDRLB

MAY 26, 2014

In that sense, the Christensen solution has become counterproductive; in fact, it’s become dangerous. It’s not generally a technology problem; it’s a leadership problem. One of the reasons, I think, for that is, like you said, it’s a leadership issue, but it’s also what models are you using. DAVID: Yeah.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 10, 2011

He and his co-author proposed a new causal mechanism that explained the surprising failure of highly-regarded companies. They suggested that companies should find a customer who loved the disruptive solution despite its limitations and create a separate organization to commercialize it. Yet, the innovator's dilemma persists.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 22, 2011

By Jeff Dyer, Hal Gregersen, and Clay Christensen. Alongside Clay Christensen, Jeff Dyer and Hal Gregersen conducted an in-depth study that uncovered the five skills shared by the best innovators in the world. The Innovator's DNA: Mastering the Five Skills of Disruptive Innovators. By Teresa Amabile and Steven Kramer.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 17, 2012

What actually concerns me — and I hope you as well — is that in his canon of leadership books there are no women's voices, at least not in the top 11 that he relies on and that inspire him to greatness. Perhaps this explains why so few of our "Lists on Leadership" include the voices of women. So does leadership.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 7, 2011

The people to blame for Yahoo's failed turnaround sit on the company's board. Clayton Christensen has long been a proponent of hiring managers with the right " schools of experience." Bartz's failed in that she could not build new growth engines for the company. Christensen's theory, however, could have predicted this failure.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 26, 2012

My colleague, Harvard Professor Clayton Christensen, addressed this topic in his HBR article, How Will You Measure Your Life? But then, Christensen says, they started making exceptions to the rules "just this once.". More recently, ALD has become a very popular course for executives of global companies.

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Chart Your Course

JUNE 30, 2016

It is hands-down the most popular leadership book of all time. He demonstrates that the ability to build trust is THE key leadership competency of the new global economy. Good to Great: Why Some Companies Make the Leap … and Others Don’t (2001). The Five Dysfunctions of a Team: A Leadership Fable (2002). By Stephen R.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 13, 2012

An acquaintance of mine (let's call him George) is an acknowledged thought leader on a topic that the senior-most executives at a particular company had placed high on their agenda. The net result was the company didn't get access to George's knowledge, and he was left with a bad taste in his mouth about the organization.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 24, 2015

You believe the right kind of leadership can make things better (the two leaders who made it onto this list — Novo Nordisk’s Lars Sørensen, our best-performing CEO of the year, and Pope Francis — are both proving that). There are millions of you, now, in companies large and small all over the world.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 16, 2017

In September, the company expects to begin shipping its all-electric Model 3 to non-employee customers, who have already logged 500,000 pre-orders. This despite the fact that the company lost nearly two billion dollars in the past two years alone. There’s little argument that Tesla is a wildly innovative company.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 1, 2012

Then I read Clay Christensen and Joe Bower's 1995 article "Disruptive Technologies: Catching the Wave" in HBR. Christensen and Bower's article offered the counterintuitive notion that great companies fail for the same reasons they initially experience success.

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