N2Growth Blog

JUNE 14, 2010

Has your business embraced social media? Has anyone on your executive team attended a conference on strategy, innovation or disruption in the last year? Do you settle for just managing your employees or do you inspire them to become innovators? Does anyone on your executive team have a coach or mentor? I Think Not.

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Business Model Blog Disruptive Innovation Brand 305

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 24, 2011

I'm sitting at DLD , a new-media conference hosted by an old media company (German magazine publisher Burda) in Munich. and Hubert Burda of Burda are onstage talking about their experiences in a transformed media landscape. It's media disintermediation at work! Arthur Sulzberger Jr. of the New York Times Co.

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Disruptive Innovation Venture Capitalist Innovation Christensen 14

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 6, 2013

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. Advertising Media Strategy' Yes, his site was definitely taking classified advertising away from papers, he would say.

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Advertising Christensen Media Disruptive Innovation 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 18, 2016

On a recent business trip to London, I surprised the conference organizers by turning down the opportunity to stay at the posh hotel hosting the conference in favor of a rather modest Airbnb flat. In recent years, few companies have captured the media’s attention like Uber. Andrew Nguyen/HBR STAFF.

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Hotels Christensen Competitive Advantage Conference 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 30, 2011

This is a generation of social media junkies — they're on an average of 2.4 Speak at an industry conference. Like Clayton Christensen did , spend an hour a day thinking about what things you're passionate about. The latest round of 75,000 Wall Street job cuts will only add to this looming feeling of insecurity.

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Career Christensen Hedge Short-term 19

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 10, 2015

True, Zappos’s recent experience with holacracy, as widely reported in the media, demonstrates that the transformation to distributed management is not easy. Moreover, instead of conferring authority, the hierarchy establishes an unambiguous sequence of levels of accountability. Don’t cringe.

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Proposal Self-aware Engineering CEO 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 4, 2014

While its social media KPI’s soared, its business suffered. Today, their annual conference brings together well-known corporate innovators, such as Harvard’s Clayton Christensen, Zappos CEO Tony Hsieh and author Daniel Pink, to mix with an eclectic assortment of social entrepreneurs and devise solutions to society’s thorniest problems.

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Media Marketing Strategy Groupthink Kaplan 8