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How Will You Measure Your Company's Life?

Harvard Business Review

Clayton Christensen's book How Will You Measure Your Life has turned into a well-deserved best seller. The book traces back to Christensen's 2010 Harvard Business Review article , which was based on a speech he gave to that year's graduating Harvard Business School class. Inevitably, many potential future strategies involved tradeoffs.

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Negotiating Innovation and Control

Harvard Business Review

No one would ever say it that way, but it clearly explained why even seemingly simple decisions required consensus and multiple rounds of meetings. The Christensen doctrine helped Dayton-Hudson create Target, Hewlett-Packard succeed in inkjet printing, and Qantas create its discount JetStar airline.