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Leading Blog
JANUARY 31, 2020
Here are a selection of tweets from January 2020 that you don't want to miss: Teaching By Heart: A Guide For Great #Leadership This It is a remarkable book and a perfect means to refocus your leadership development this year. Clayton Christensen Rocked The World Gently from @JohnBaldoni. How To Invest In Startups by @sama Sam Altman.
N2Growth Blog
JUNE 14, 2010
Why didn’t Folgers recognize the retail consumer demand for coffee and develop a Starbucks type business model? It takes skillful attention to self-cannibalization, a bias toward innovation and recognition that 'sacred cows' often become someone else's T-Bone dinner steak. Why didn’t IBM see Dell coming?
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First Friday Book Synopsis
SEPTEMBER 17, 2011
The High-Velocity Edge: How Market Leaders Leverage Operational Excellence to Beat the Competition Steven J. Spear McGraw-Hill (2009) The power of causal mechanisms that can drive a continuously self-improving system Clayton Christensen’s high praise of Steven Spear and this book is well-deserved.
Harvard Business Review
NOVEMBER 18, 2015
That’s no surprise, since Clayton Christensen co-founded our company in 2000, five years after his Harvard Business Review article with Joseph L. Christensen and two co-authors revisit where disruption theory stands today in a new HBR article, “What Is Disruptive Innovation? The rest, of course, is history.
Harvard Business Review
APRIL 26, 2011
The skills required to play hockey are very different from those required to play basketball. His skills and work ethic suggest that it would be reasonable to assume he could have been a world-class ice hockey player if he had dedicated himself to the sport as a youth. That's no dig on James. But he wouldn't necessarily be world-class.
Harvard Business Review
DECEMBER 10, 2010
These days, you're as likely to see "innovative" on any given job description as you are to see "strong communication skills" or "team player." Jeffrey Dyer, Hal Gregersen, and Clayton Christensen identify five "discovery skills" that make for innovative mindsets: associating, questioning, observing, experimenting, and networking.
Harvard Business Review
OCTOBER 2, 2014
As Steve Blank, Clay Christensen, and many others have pointed out, once firms reach a certain size, most of their resources (and investment dollars) are rightly devoted to executing and defending their existing business model. product vs. operational) and referenced the same stages (e.g. It’s not easy for big companies to innovate.
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