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Lead from the Future

Leading Blog

The authors point out that present-forward thinking innovation at most organizations is mostly incremental improvements to what they are already doing. The authors offer a three-step process to help leaders develop visionary strategies and bring them to life. Develop Your Vision. Convert Vision to Strategy.

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Disruptive Business Models | N2Growth Blog

N2Growth Blog

Few things are more critical to your efforts in increasing your revenue growth and corporate sustainability than understanding the value of disruptive innovation. So why do so many established and often well managed companies struggle with disruptive innovation? or my personal favorite, “We need to focus on our core business.&#

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The Real Secret to Thriving Amid Disruptive Innovation

Harvard Business Review

I'm sitting at DLD , a new-media conference hosted by an old media company (German magazine publisher Burda) in Munich. Breyer stands out — both in the room and the Twitter echo chamber — by sounding like an Old Testament prophet (or at least like Clay Christensen ): "traditional media companies unless they radically change.

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What Business Leaders Need to Know About the Paris Climate Conference

Harvard Business Review

The 195 member countries, or “parties,” hold a Conference of Parties (COP) annually, and this year is the 21st meeting. But, as climate policy expert Aimee Christensen pointed out to me, “the recent momentum going into Paris is primarily driven by the improving economics of action (e.g., as a whole has committed to.

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Jeff Bezos Brings His Low-Margin Ways to Newspapers

Harvard Business Review

Way back in the first decade of the new millennium, when Craigslist seemed like the biggest threat facing newspapers, founder Craig Newmark paid visits to lots of media companies and media conferences. Sometimes that''s political influence and hometown boosterism, as with the local developer and hotelier who bought San Diego''s daily paper.

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How Amazon Trained Its Investors to Behave

Harvard Business Review

Clayton Christensen has long complained that standard financial metrics can be enemies of innovation and growth. Or, when they emphasize earnings, it's in the opposite direction from what Christensen's worried about. After that the No.

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Management’s Three Eras: A Brief History

Harvard Business Review

Short-term thinking has been charged with no less than a chronic decline in innovation capability by Clayton Christensen who termed it “the Capitalist’s Dilemma.” ) Corporations continue to focus too narrowly on shareholders , with terrible consequences – even at great companies like IBM. Townes, and Henry L.