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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LDRLB

JULY 17, 2012

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. Pushing boundaries occurs on two levels. Data- Intuition Integration. Most leaders want hard data when making important decisions.

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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. It’s the question that serves as the guiding focus of my talk with management thinker, writer, and author, Whitney Johnson.

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Lead Change Blog

DECEMBER 29, 2015

Here they are: Daniel Pink – In 2015, London-based Thinkers 50 named him, alongside Michael Porter and Clayton Christensen, as one of the top 10 business thinkers in the world. He speaks and consults across dozens of industries on creativity, leadership, and passion for work. Would you like to meet my team?

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 28, 2018

.” Indeed, not just in business but also in politics, sports, and the arts, there is no shortage of real-world examples of successful partnerships that were fueled as much by the alignment of ideas as by creative tension or discord. Thinking Creatively. How Senior Executives Find Time to Be Creative. Emma Seppala.

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Skip Prichard

SEPTEMBER 20, 2020

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. Why do many businesses seem frozen even though the constant changes hitting industries require action?

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 4, 2017

Disruption is a systemic problem: Clayton Christensen outlined in 1997 why it was so difficult for any individual business to defuse disruptive threats and embrace disruptive trends. They’ve read Christensen’s book The Innovator’s Dilemma. For the everyday student of business history, this might be unsurprising.

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First Friday Book Synopsis

APRIL 26, 2012

Todd Henry is the founder and CEO of Accidental Creative, a company that helps creative people and teams generate brilliant ideas. He regularly speaks and consults with companies, both large and small, about how to develop practices and systems that lead to everyday brilliance.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 20, 2012

Clayton Christensen , Harvard Business School Professor, explains how to approach innovation creatively by studying the problem you are trying to solve and how it was resolved by other industries. For more, see the article Surviving Disruption.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 23, 2011

Creativity and innovative thinking are not genetic traits. Hear Clay Christensen and Hal Gregersen, authors of The Innovator's DNA , talk about the ways in which leaders can improve their organization's innovative skills. View webinar: A conversation with Clay Christensen and Hal Gregersen.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 28, 2012

Whitney Johnson , president and cofounder of Rose Park Advisors, applies Harvard Business School professor Clayton Christensen's concept of disruptive innovation to a creative career path.

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First Friday Book Synopsis

NOVEMBER 2, 2011

The Innovator’s Manifesto: Deliberate Disruption for Transformational Growth Michael Raynor Crown Business (2011) How and why disruption “provides an explanation of creative creation Frankly, I was unable to fully understand (much less appreciate) the significance of what Joseph A.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 7, 2016

The latter is according to Clayton Christensen, Michael Raynor, and Rory McDonald in their recent HBR article “ What is Disruptive Innovation?” Christensen, Raynor, and McDonald argue that Uber is not disruptive because it offers neither a low-end service, nor a new market. Zipcar counts as a disruptive innovation.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 20, 2014

In The Innovator’s DNA , co-authors Jeffrey Dyer , Hal Gregersen , and Clayton Christensen (The Innovator’s Dilemma, The Innovator’s Solution) built on what is known about disruptive innovation to show how individuals can develop the skills necessary to move from idea to impact. Innovation webinar'

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 6, 2012

Creative dynamos have always sought the frisson of the divine revelatory spark. Aesthete-centric brands like Burberry's, Zegna and Chanel have as their ambassadors aspiring icons who give creative light and focus to the design portfolio. Perhaps the newly-knighted Sir Jonathan Ive has one, too. Anyone can hire a focus group.

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Modern Servant Leader

JANUARY 15, 2015

Contact: caduhigg@gmail 9 43,800 5,107 9,706 Clayton Christensen Innovation, Leadership Professor at Harvard Business School. It is a manifesto of human creativity. Author of @MeasureYourLife. Tweets with occasional assistance from the Fellows at the Forum for Growth & Innovation. Humans Create Futures.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 13, 2014

As Clayton Christensen likes to note , the primary job of leadership today is to “source, assemble, and ship numbers.” Thought leaders like Christensen, Roger Martin , Michael Porter , and Steve Denning have all argued that shareholder value has been exposed as a flawed paradigm. No, it’s to maximize shareholder value.

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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 Progress Principle: Using Small Wins to Ignite Joy, Engagement, and Creativity at Work.

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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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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 3, 2017

Every person is capable of creative thought and action. Great managers know how to tap that superabundant resource, and they recognize that pooling creative energy usually accelerates progress. So this raises the question: How do we enable more people to get involved in solving problems? Many minds make lighter work.

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N2Growth Blog

JANUARY 13, 2011

An idea is not synonymous with a competitive advantage, an idea is not necessarily a sign of creativity, an idea does not constitute innovation, and as much as some people wish it was so, an idea is certainly not a business. Moore and Christensen tell us what to do, but their prescription is rarely followed. Keep up the good work.

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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. The product worked effectively, but never became a big seller.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 30, 2012

The first misconception is that innovation and creativity are the same things. The Little Black Book of Innovation offers a simple, five-word definition: "Something different that has impact." This intentionally broad definition helps to disarm three common misconceptions. Not all innovations come in the same flavor, of course.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 10, 2011

The wisdom of such a strategy has been discussed in business circles for years, most notably in the work of Harvard's Clayton Christensen ( The Innovator's Dilemma ).

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 25, 2011

I believe that much of what Clayton Christensen calls " disruptive innovation " falls into this category.) We live in a creative era in which we are obliged to spend more and more time working outside the capsule. I don't mean that all entrepreneurs evidence this anthropological model. In these cases, Ventresca's model applies.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 27, 2013

In 2007, Clayton Christensen co-founded Rose Park Advisors, a hedge fund devoted to investing in disruptive companies. And many investors intuitively recognize this innovation as a new-market disruption that could unleash a wave of creativity in product design and revolutions in the manufacturing, retail, and software industries.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 30, 2014

Questioning is also seen by many business leaders as “inefficient,” according to the author and Harvard Business School professor Clayton Christensen. Within that structure, questioning by employees can be perceived as a challenge to authority. So why open the floodgates?

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 10, 2010

His creativity raised the bar (pun intended) on our hiring process. Jeffrey Dyer, Hal Gregersen, and Clayton Christensen identify five "discovery skills" that make for innovative mindsets: associating, questioning, observing, experimenting, and networking. We hired him on the spot, and not because we were tipsy.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 19, 2013

Questions alone might be clever, but as Jeff Dyer, Clayton Christensen, and I found in our research behind The Innovator''s DNA , they rarely produce positive impacts. Catalytic Questioning ensures this essential leadership skill improves over time to unlock even better, more creative solutions. Step 5: Get to work! Find some answers.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 15, 2013

With apologies to Clay Christensen , this other "innovator''s dilemma" asks, "Is it better to be ''predictably surprising'' or ''surprisingly predictable''?" Or do you gain greater brand equity by creatively disrupting the very expectations they''re predisposed to bring to your products and services?

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 20, 2011

It is Clayton Christensen 's innovator's dilemma incarnate, and Netflix is very publicly trying to solve it. The presentation goes on to say, "We're in a creative-inventive market, not a safety-critical market like medicine or nuclear power. This mirrors Hastings's statement about possibly moving too fast.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 26, 2011

Auguste said the people at the fringes of the core business can often be the best sources for creative ideas. Software entrepreneur Donna Auguste used this term when we worked together helping a newspaper company formulate new growth strategies. They don't quite fit the establishment, and that's exactly what you want.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 19, 2012

As Clay Christensen argues , it's important to set aside time to discover your passions and work to amplify them throughout your life. If you define your industry and functional parameters creatively, you'll avoid getting stuck in a career rut. When do I specialize? However, this isn't an excuse to stop hunting for a specialty.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 11, 2014

Tesla, Nespresso, and Geox are current successful examples of such high-end disruptions. Crest Whitestrips, for example, are radically more affordable and convenient than going to the dentist to whiten your teeth. Digital photography is far more convenient than developing film.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 11, 2015

A curious, inquisitive leader also can set an example that inspires creative thinking throughout the company, according to Hollywood producer Brian Grazer. As Dell noted, curiosity can inspire leaders to continually seek out the fresh ideas and approaches needed to keep pace with change and stay ahead of competitors.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 10, 2015

These dynamics make it hard for teams to recognize or to be fully cognizant of new disruptive challenges, while also stifling the creative innovation that is necessary to proactively confront such challenges.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 22, 2011

The innovation research identifies the tyranny of large numbers as a common (and vexing) problem for leaders as companies grow, well documented by Harvard Business School Professor Clayton Christensen in The Innovators Solution , Jim Collins in How the Mighty Fall , and by Scott Anthony on this blog.

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