Lead Change Blog

DECEMBER 29, 2015

Would you like to meet my team? 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. I’m excited to hear what this tremendous team has to share with us about leadership. Ron Friedman, Ph.D. –

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N2Growth Blog

JUNE 14, 2010

The most successful companies incorporate disruptive thinking into all of their business and management practices to gain distinctive competitive value propositions. Why didn’t Folgers recognize the retail consumer demand for coffee and develop a Starbucks type business model? Why didn’t IBM see Dell coming?

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The Horizons Tracker

FEBRUARY 22, 2022

One of the more interesting applications has been “StockCity”, which was developed by Fidelity International to allow traders and investors to traverse a fully 3D virtual city, with buildings representing each stock and complete with pertinent data about that company. ” Modified behavior. Will the metaverse fare better?

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Skip Prichard

SEPTEMBER 20, 2020

Only those who are able to reinvent themselves, imagining new solutions, and developing new products and services to be relevant in the future will be poised to thrive. The definition I like to use is the that the person or team responsible ‘seeks problems to solve’ and where Insight + Ideas + Impact = Innovation.

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Modern Servant Leader

JANUARY 15, 2015

Maybe you need a leadership development expert or public speaker. Or, maybe you’re focused on personal development and want to find the best content online to help you grow as a leader. Whether you need a leadership and management expert for yourself or your team, you’ll find someone great below. Zondervan Author.

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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. You and Your Team Series. Leading a Brainstorming Session with a Cross-Cultural Team.

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Creativity Team Christensen Innovation 13

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.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 7, 2012

Barriers to entry are decreasing and disruptive entrants are surging, a recipe that both Michael Porter and Clayton Christensen could agree augurs poorly for industry returns. A related possibility is that a majority of venture capitalists use flawed theories of startup success. So people hoping to fly created large feathered wings.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 7, 2012

Barriers to entry are decreasing and disruptive entrants are surging, a recipe that both Michael Porter and Clayton Christensen could agree augurs poorly for industry returns. A related possibility is that a majority of venture capitalists use flawed theories of startup success. So people hoping to fly created large feathered wings.

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Venture Capitalist Christensen Incubator Porter 12

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 17, 2012

Recent corporate history is littered with successful established firms who failed to manage disruptive innovation even with full knowledge that it was coming. For Clayton Christensen, this is a basic flaw of incumbency. For Clayton Christensen, this is a basic flaw of incumbency. Kodak is a poster-child. It didn't work.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 8, 2017

So, as a new manager, how do you build an authentic and connected leadership presence that has a positive impact on your team and colleagues? ” You and Your Team Series. More than that, they must view this other-directed work as mission-critical to their success.” Set a leadership values-based goal.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 1, 2012

They're bad at innovation by design: All the pressures and processes that drive them toward a profitable, efficient operation tend to get in the way of developing the innovations that can actually transform the business. However, in the process of unleashing this potential, leaders must make sure their innovators develop sustainability.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 26, 2011

They want the group to succeed, so they pick the superstars — the corporate athletes that have demonstrated success in the core business. But a range of research has shown how successful entrepreneurs generally act differently from successful operators.*. Send the team to school. Innovation muscles can be built.

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Sports Christensen Innovation Class 13

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 3, 2012

The general way around this problem seems simple enough — have a process by which you evaluate ideas in different ways at different stages of development (most call this a "stage-gate process."). Innosight's venture capital "team" is a two-person shop in Singapore. Ultimately, a team discussion determines what moves forward.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 25, 2014

But the company had almost failed several times, and even success was brutal. Develop deep expertise — your best risk-mitigation strategy . In financial terms, focuses expertise is a call option on other careers, and it increases your chance of startup success, to boot. Other risk-mitigation strategies .

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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

MAY 2, 2017

Clay Christensen's landmark theory -- in under two minutes. There were no processes and systems in place to integrate the outpost team with the company HQ and the rest of the organization. That meant that although the outpost team had struck gold, there was no means of sharing it among the rest of the firm. Related Video.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 1, 2012

"You have to deliver $300 million in incremental growth by 2015," the business unit head told the leader of his innovation team. Innosight cofounder Clayton Christensen memorably termed this the "growth-gap death spiral" in his 2003 book The Innovator's Solution ). Then early results disappoint.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 13, 2012

Being a giant in today's industry doesn't guarantee even short-term success as industries collide and hungry startups from around the globe keep developing innovative ways to siphon profits from even the most seemingly staid of industries.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 3, 2017

They too developed a business model based on a pool of freelance consultants, but rather than rely on a database, a matching platform, or some other digital search function, they understood that in their business – high end strategy consulting – there was no substitute for really knowing people.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 8, 2017

But when you look more deeply into whether those organizations are truly redefining what they are and what they do, stories of successful change efforts are exceptionally rare. The team began by identifying 57 companies that have made substantial progress toward transformation. Scott Cook , founder and chairman of Intuit.

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Franchising CEO Business Model Strategy 15

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. As a result the client was unable to get her team on board and secure necessary budget, and most of the recommendations were shelved. It won’t guarantee success – but it certainly will improve the odds.

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Consultative Definition Christensen Constraint 8

N2Growth Blog

JANUARY 13, 2011

My advice to you is not to let your business get caught up in embracing random ideas – at least not without some initial analysis being conducted to determine the likelihood of success. It should be developed as a solution to a problem or to exploit an opportunity. Failed initiatives are costly at several levels.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 25, 2016

Most large companies seem to have lost the taste for entrepreneurship, their CEOs preferring to focus on using technology to maximize profit from existing businesses, as Clayton Christensen and others have shown, or not to invest at all. This entrepreneurial success story has not happened overnight.

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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. This requires a leadership team and work force that is always trying to ask the questions that can light up the big honking issues.”.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 1, 2017

By diving into the data, we were able to dramatically reduce customer dissatisfaction, increase customer loyalty, and develop new, differentiating service offerings. The team discovered that guests often tag the clothes they wear with designer names when they take selfies at our hotels and post them on Facebook and Instagram.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 24, 2012

On January 3, Kahn Academy announced that Vi Hart would be moving to Mountain View and joining its team. Experiments are happening and the successful ones are complementary to one another. And Hart is not the only one who has developed this skill. These developments stand in sharp contrast to what Apple has focused on.

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Video Education Christensen Hedge 14

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 29, 2010

I've also had the chance to experience the world of venture capital investing through the small fund that our team in Singapore manages on behalf of the Singapore government. We need to figure out how to create more systematic ways to track, measure, and reward people following behaviors consistent with successful innovation.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 26, 2012

An organization's capabilities become its disabilities when disruption is afoot." – Clayton Christensen, The Innovator's Solution. ".most often the very skills that propel an organization to succeed in sustaining circumstances systematically bungle the best ideas for disruptive growth.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 30, 2013

He had developed an extensive plan, and had the promise of grant money behind him. It''s not about price, or code, or agile development. He is currently creating new businesses inside the Hearst Corporation, where he''s been driving the development of Manilla.com for almost 2 years.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 11, 2016

When I asked professional contacts for their advice to interns, they consistently listed punctuality as a critical success factor. Renowned management thinker Clay Christensen recommends spending time formulating the right questions. Ryan, an executive in a municipal government, says, “Always be on time.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 8, 2015

Innovators lower the risks of moving beyond their comfort zones by breaking down new-product development into a series of small, low-risk, low-cost experiments designed to test the assumptions behind a new offering. What successful companies are doing right. Take, for example, Instagram’s recent success. Insight Center.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 20, 2013

Identify target customers by casting a wide net across potential users , and performing customer interviews to establish their “jobs to be done” (as Harvard Business School professor Clay Christensen says). Test user perceptions with a range of potential data offerings. Ask yourself how many of these are truly viable.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 10, 2014

(See comments by Clayton Christensen and Mark Cuban ). Still, most colleges are lucky if they can afford even a small team charged with developing new lines of business and new business models. This has generally been a successful strategy for universities in both financial and strategic terms. a better place to be.

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Real Estate Education Disruptive Innovation Asset Management 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 19, 2012

The obvious targets were people in the field of innovation — those working in strategy, R&D, business development, and entrepreneurship. My own publisher, HBS Press, published two the very same month as my book — one of them co-authored by heavyweight Clay Christensen. In response, I usually tell the following story.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 15, 2012

But you know, my leadership team is smart. And they've been hugely successful. Academics offer up at least three answers: Clayton Christensen asserts that a single organization can't house two competing systems; companies seeking to drive disruptive growth therefore need to create spinoff organizations.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 11, 2013

When I suggested to Clayton Christensen that we partner with Hatkoff to create the Tribeca Disruptive Innovation Awards , Clay’s response was : I trust you Whitney. She loved her job, and with a background in public affairs in communications had been successful in both international business and management roles.

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