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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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. Boundary Pushing. Pushing boundaries occurs on two levels. Savoring Surprise.

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N2Growth Blog

JUNE 24, 2014

Thanks to Professor Clayton Christensen of Harvard University and his 1997 landmark book, The Innovator’s Dilemma , we have a new way of understanding the life cycle of companies and why some market leaders maintain their dominant position and other one-time market leaders disappear.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 24, 2013

Meet the New Face of Diversity: The “Slacker” Millennial Guy. According to Clay Christensen and his coauthors Dina Wang and Derek van Bever, the strategy consulting industry is about to blow up the same way the legal world just did. Technology offers real hope for Africa’s economic future. Real Men Go to Sleep.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 7, 2017

Earlier this year, Sruthi Thatchenkery , Michael Christensen , Stefanos Zenios and I completed a study of 231 surgical instrument ventures over a 25-year period. And their hard-earned wisdom can temper the expectations of overconfident board members or technology-focused entrepreneurs. As a leader, seek diversity on your team.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 9, 2014

Diversity. A company is clearly more at risk if it has just one major product, service, technology, key supplier, or other core element. While companies don’t often share the details of their supply chain strategy publicly, you can bet these companies have built more diverse options for sourcing key inputs.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 14, 2011

India and China are fascinating, diverse, and distinct. One group wanted me to detail the essential habits of disruptive innovators (where I happily leveraged the great work on the innovator's DNA by Jeffrey Dyer, Hal Gregersen, and Clayton Christensen). But the striking thing about them is how very different they are.

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