Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 22, 2011

Clay Christensen writes, "Your decisions about allocating your personal time, energy, and talent ultimately shape your life's strategy." But as Christensen observes, we often default to short-term tasks even when many of them may not connect to our bigger goals. The bad news is that you're lost." Why is that?

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Christensen McKinsey Short-term Goal 16

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 12, 2013

My 2-year-old son, Harry, valiantly contributed a range of squiggles, which I suppose represented waves of karmic energy. Since I couldn’t tell if it was good energy or bad energy, I turned next to the submission from my soon-to-be-6-year-old daughter, Holly. She had drawn an arrow with flowers on it.

Advertising 9

Advertising Innovation Christensen Long-term 9

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 1, 2015

These talks will reshape the global energy sector and every other industry that relies on energy — in other words, all of them. The goals vary, but this is the first time in history that every country will agree to manage its emissions. For example, the U.S. They’re not exactly legally binding.

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Conference Supply Chain Commitment Energy 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 29, 2012

Easier than we all think (and Clayton Christensen's The Innovator's Dilemma is one of the best books around on leadership drift). Essentially, he put lots of energy into catching drift before it caught Apple. Totally upended. Just how does drift happen? We can do the same in our personal and professional lives. Look around.

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Leadership Christensen Innovation Metrics 13

Harvard Business Review

MAY 2, 2017

Clay Christensen's landmark theory -- in under two minutes. So, even if the outposts manage to absorb local value they usually fail to propagate it back to the organization, which means they fail on the ultimate reason for their existence. Related Video. The Explainer: Disruptive Innovation.

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Innovation Social Capital CRM Tacit Knowledge 9

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 12, 2012

Demand response, grid management, solar financing and installation, and electric vehicle infrastructure companies might fit this bill. By focusing on a straightforward insight: truly transformative industrial changes aren't driven by technologies replacing technologies , but by systems replacing systems.

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Disruptive Innovation Competitive Advantage Business Model Technology 10

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 25, 2011

Bob is the Managing Partner of The Re-Wired Group in Detroit, an innovation incubator and consultancy specializing in demand-side innovation. An engineer, designer, serial entrepreneur, investor, and researcher, he has developed 1,000+ products/services and has collaborated with Clay Christensen at HBS for more than 15 years.

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Mentor Christensen Incubator Learning-by-Doing 15

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. Silicon Valley remains the global hot spot of innovation, and America continues to churn out innovative companies like Groupon and Bloom Energy.

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Innovation Venture Capitalist Entrepreneur Gilbert 15

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 14, 2012

But if they were launching today, banks would likely ask themselves how to accomplish the transactions (deposits, withdrawals, financial management) of banking without the physical commitment of banks. That was why Christensen's The Innovator's Dilemma became the bible of the boardroom. Because that's the point.

Banking 16

Banking Business Model Supply Chain Mass Marketing 16

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 16, 2014

Bursting with nervous energy, he told me about his business travails — work so busy he was staying regularly until 10 at night, and a billionaire client sapping his energy and causing him grief. But according to Christensen, we may not be that different, either: it’s a matter of degree, and timing. That’s great!”

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Christensen Gilbert Short-term Long-term 14

Harvard Business Review

JULY 27, 2012

Clayton Christensen's book How Will You Measure Your Life has turned into a well-deserved best seller. The book traces back to Christensen's 2010 Harvard Business Review article , which was based on a speech he gave to that year's graduating Harvard Business School class.

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Christensen Company Consensus Gilbert 13

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 7, 2012

Nuclear reactors melted down, disrupting the national grid, reversing energy policies as far away as Germany, and contaminating a part of Japan for generations to come. A healthier approach also means managing acceptable losses. The disaster caused factories to close, not only in Japan, but in the United States and Europe as well.

Efficiency 8

Efficiency Supply Chain Christensen Crisis 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 23, 2015

No definition of specific areas where the company should focus its energy. Many of the most common missteps we see companies make would fit nicely in Steve Kerr’s management classic , “The folly of rewarding A, while hoping for B.” And that was it. No ring-fenced resources to pursue innovation. No tools or training.

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Innovation Company Six Sigma Constraint 8