Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 26, 2012

The crisis exposed the fallacies of measuring success in monetary terms and left many leaders with a deep feeling of unease that they were being pulled away from what I call their True North. By external standards I was highly successful, but inside I was deeply unhappy. I was losing my way. That is much easier said than done.

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Christensen Self-aware Short-term Long-term 15

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 7, 2013

Over the course of the past few weeks, two articles crossed my desk touching on this issue. Both articles espoused slightly new definitions of disruption, expanding the categorization of the world that Clay Christensen introduced us to more than 20 years ago. Disruption shouldn't be a term used to describe any successful innovation.

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Christensen Disruptive Innovation Innovation Bottom-up 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 10, 2011

Of course, that young HBS professor was Innosight co-founder Clayton Christensen. Academic journals have dissected the disruptive innovation theory and hundreds of thousands of students around the world have seen Christensen's famous model. That's not to say that there haven't been success stories. Any other ideas? *

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Innovation Disruptive Innovation Christensen Kahneman 15

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 17, 2012

When I recently asked a group of successful professional women to list their favorite books about entrepreneurship, the list skewed largely male. Unless of course, we believe women have nothing to offer as leaders. John's picks, however, are not an anomaly among men, or even really among women. Not too long ago, my list did too.

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Books Christensen Ries Disruptive Innovation 13

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 6, 2014

We don’t know enough of its finances to know precisely how successful it has been, but with tens of millions of viewers and sponsorship packages north of $2 million, it is a good bet that ESPN has done well on its bet. Snowboarding of course crossed over. Is the X games different? The X Games clearly succeed here.

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Disruptive Innovation Market Segmentation Christensen Market Penetration 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 10, 2015

They wind up maintaining course without appropriately considering emerging risks, debating alternative scenarios, or exploring new courses of action. Here’s how we should update our performance appraisal systems and criteria to reward those who help set the foundation for our success in the future.

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Groupthink Team Consensus Christensen 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 16, 2018

In China look at the unique organization of entrepreneurial cells Zhang Ruimin has created at Haier, and in France look at Vinci Group’s success, under Xavier Huillard, with a radically decentralized model designed to foster entrepreneurial creativity in its three thousand constituent companies.

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Drucker Long-term Short-term Decentralization 13

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 29, 2010

All things being equal, of course, you'd rather have a skilled entrepreneur than an unskilled one. There is lots of work to be done, of course. Innovation is, of course, an intensely human behavior. I've been increasingly telling people that the key to successful innovation is to become a Latter-Day Edison.

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Innovation Venture Capitalist Entrepreneur Gilbert 15

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 23, 2015

What successful companies are doing right. Before that, successful business models “were created more by accident than by design or foresight, and became clear only after the fact. This approach begins by focusing on the customer value proposition — what Christensen calls the customer’s “job-to-be-done.”

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Business Model Drucker Christensen P&L 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 19, 2014

It lies behind successful product companies like Apple, Dropbox, and Kickstarter, but it can also lead entrepreneurs predictably to failure. Consider, for example, two successful companies that at first seem to result from performance-gaps: Dropbox and Oculus VR. Oculus, of course, was wildly successful.

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Entrepreneur Advice Disruptive Innovation CRM 9

Harvard Business Review

MAY 15, 2013

Unhappily shocked by Sputnik''s unexpected 1957 success, President Eisenhower quickly pushed the Pentagon to establish the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA). Successful surprises subvert, destroy and/or exceed expectations. Its ostensible mission: " to prevent technological surprise to the U.S.

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Innovation Christensen Brand Globalization 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 17, 2013

As Clay Christensen and colleagues point out in the latest issue of HBR , the consulting industry is ripe for disruption. Of course with some types of consulting – where the explicit contract is to produce a technical product or system – it may be perfectly appropriate. Execution Strategy'

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Consultative Definition Christensen Constraint 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 30, 2011

There are three founding partners : Clayton Christensen, Matt Christensen, and me. Of course, that doesn't happen when my husband answers. But success depends on learning to do both. When we meet with prospective investors, I don't speak much, and for good reason. When Clay is in the room, people want to hear from him.

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Christensen Sports Disruptive Innovation Learning-by-Doing 15

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 30, 2013

Of course, none of this would have worked if Bezos hadn't been making the right strategic bets, running the company spectacularly well, and catching the occasional lucky break. But when you combine Amazon's success with its resolute unwillingness to take financial markets too seriously, the result is an amazing thing to see.

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Training Bond Christensen Long-term 10

Chart Your Course

JUNE 30, 2016

Studies show that a person’s emotional intelligence (the ability to manage one’s own emotions and the emotions of others) is not only more important than their IQ, but the single most important variable in career and life success. Christensen. This is the book that launched the idea of EQ into the public domain.

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Human Resources Talent Management Resources Ulrich 100

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 19, 2012

Moreover, young actors who specialize are able to land their first role quicker and receive more job offers over the course of their careers. But an oft-overlooked part of this strategy is the requirement to amplify your passions and double down when you see early signs of success. When do I specialize?

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Career Long-term Christensen CFO 15

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 16, 2017

In the model described by Clayton Christensen, a new entrant offers substitute products using technology that is cheaper but initially inferior to products offered by mature incumbents. In the meantime, of course, there’s no guarantee that Tesla will be the winner in any automotive technology arms race.

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Supply Chain Automotive Disruptive Innovation Transportation 11

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 18, 2011

After the Celeron had successfully entered the market, Andy Grove, then Intel's CEO, told me, "You know, the disruptive model didn't give us any answers to any of the problems, but it gave us a common language and a common way to frame the problem so that we could reach consensus around counterintuitive courses of action.".

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Power Consensus Christensen Disruptive Innovation 13

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 10, 2011

But rhyming is different from predicting and the analysts' forecasts remain vulnerable to exogenous shocks and the disruptive technologies described so well in Clayton Christensen's work, The Innovator's Dilemma. The trouble is that getting information about big strategic shifts this way is like arriving too late to the party.

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Strategy Christensen Technology Long-term 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 12, 2013

But, despite their history of success in such deals in other African countries, nothing of substance has materialized in Nigeria. It is not surprising that China’s success in countries like Angola and Sudan did not translate to Nigeria.

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Entrepreneur Disruptive Innovation Politics Christensen 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 12, 2013

But, despite their history of success in such deals in other African countries, nothing of substance has materialized in Nigeria. It is not surprising that China''s success in countries like Angola and Sudan did not translate to Nigeria.

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Entrepreneur Disruptive Innovation Politics Christensen 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 2, 2017

And, of course, it looks cool — both inside the organization and to outsiders. Clay Christensen's landmark theory -- in under two minutes. Persuaded by such logic, companies agree to make the investment and set up their innovation centers. People are relocated or hired locally to staff the outpost. Related Video.

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Innovation Social Capital CRM Tacit Knowledge 9

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 11, 2015

Wilson, noted that business leaders who “are always expanding their perspective and what they know—and have that natural curiosity—are the people that are going to be successful.” The notion that curiosity can be good for business is not entirely new, of course.

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Christensen Open-book CEO Entrepreneur 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 19, 2013

Of course, this state of 'independence' isn't always of our own accord. After leaving Merrill Lynch, I co-founded Rose Park Advisors with Clay Christensen, veering ever closer to independence. Note too, that with personal disruption, success is self-reported satisfaction, however you may define it. Layoffs are rife.

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MBO Learning Curve Christensen Trends 10

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 5, 2012

When Clay Christensen, his son Matt, and I first launched Rose Park Advisors, we considered bringing on investors at the GP (general partner) level. Of course, no one deserves to go unnoticed. When we are outside the apparatus of power, we have to find workarounds if we are to achieve success. Love your returns.

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Career Christensen Disruptive Innovation Learning-by-Doing 15

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 11, 2015

Over the past six years, we have put in place a 30-person consulting team at EMC Information Infrastructure (EMC II) using a model we have found to be successful, winning projects away from external management consulting firms at a fraction of the cost, and with great “client” (that is to say, EMC) satisfaction. Measure success.

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Consultative Team How To McKinsey 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 11, 2013

Of course, there are many challenges to any of these strategies, not the least of which is firm culture. There’s no question that the legal industry is going through upheaval. Law schools are shuttering and powerful old firms have fallen. Their higher margins could be reinvested into client service innovations.

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Sample Survey Christensen Efficiency 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 12, 2012

However, as Clayton Christensen aptly points out, disruption occurs over time — not in a specific instant. Over the course of the 30's, a huge population of Americans gained access to the automobile — a technology that made the corner stores' system of last mile distribution nearly obsolete.

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Technology Retail Supply Chain Business Model 15

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 12, 2012

American efforts to jumpstart the development of a cleantech economy have not been wildly successful to date. While there have been scores of small wins and incremental advances that should probably get more notice, the primary theme has been to place big bets — bets that are starting to turn up sour.

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Disruptive Innovation Competitive Advantage Business Model Technology 10

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 1, 2017

To borrow Clayton Christensen’s phrase, our hotel laundry’s “job to be done” is not cleaning dirty clothes; it is preserving and enhancing our guests’ sense of participation in the world of fashion. Fashion and clothing were central to the guest experience — much more so than we had realized.

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Hotels Fashion Budgeting Retail 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 8, 2015

For over a decade now, we’ve been studying how the best innovators manage uncertainty, and in the course of our research we’ve seen three traps strategists fall prey to in fashioning digital business models, which they could avoid if they approached digital business modeling as an exercise in innovation. Insight Center.

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Innovation Business Model Uncertainty Advertising 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 30, 2013

The problem with the effort, of course, was that building both the necessary African infrastructure and the logistics network needed to transport the non-indigenous crops was going to be a very expensive proposition indeed. He had developed an extensive plan, and had the promise of grant money behind him. Could it need a new sales channel?

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Company Ries Maturity Innovation 9

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 10, 2014

In a nutshell, the credit hour, the seat in the lecture hall, the tenured professor with a two or three course load, the four-year tuition, and the two-year professional degree will all be up for grabs in the next 20 years. See comments by Clayton Christensen and Mark Cuban ). There are examples of universities forging ahead.

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Real Estate Education Disruptive Innovation Asset Management 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 16, 2014

But, of course, it was possible. As Harvard Business School professor Clay Christensen described in his mega-bestseller How Will You Measure Your Life? (with Karen Dillon and James Allworth), the ROI of work is immediately apparent. Instead, he writes , “Happiness is…the precursor to greater success.

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Christensen Gilbert Short-term Long-term 14

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 19, 2012

My own publisher, HBS Press, published two the very same month as my book — one of them co-authored by heavyweight Clay Christensen. I knew better, of course. What if success or failure is just one unexpected moment away? It does not make sense to ignore this basic fact about success any longer. It even had a name.

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Succession Diversity Open-book Innovation 17

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 29, 2013

The questions, of course, are when, and how. What I am pretty sure about is that the how of Apple's fall (or continued rise) will hinge on strategy — because strategy has driven its success. That's what Michael Porter says , and tough-choice-making has clearly been a big part of Apple's success. How do I know that?

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Strategy Porter Christensen Mauborgne 9

Harvard Business Review

MAY 12, 2015

” “Price competition can’t be all there is to it,” he explained to me, when during the course of updating that seminal piece in 2008, I asked him about the origins of the five forces model. Focusing on a few key success factors, critical resources, and core competencies (maybe a reference to C.

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