Jesse Lyn Stoner Blog

JUNE 27, 2013

Whitney Johnson is a leading thinker on driving innovation via personal disruption and a co-founder of Clayton Christensen’s investment firm Rose Park Advisors. RedStamp was just honored by Entrepreneur Magazine as 1 of 100 Brilliant Companies. Once you know your greater purpose, there are lots of roads that will take you there.

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N2Growth Blog

JUNE 14, 2010

With the continued rapid development of technology taking the concept of globalization and turning it into hard reality facing businesses of all sizes, it is time for executives and entrepreneurs to examine their current business models from a disruptive perspective. Ask yourself the following questions: Why should anyone be led by you?

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Art Petty

JANUARY 7, 2020

Entrepreneur and innovation and disruption theorist, Whitney Johnson, joins Art Petty on the Leadership Caffeine podcast to discuss the latest edition of her book, Disrupt Yourself. The post Leadership Caffeine Podcast #33—Whitney Johnson appeared first on Management Excellence by Art Petty.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 25, 2011

Marc Ventresca's recent presentation at TEDx Oxford asks us to rethink the idea of the entrepreneur. He believes, if I have him right, that we subscribe too heavily to the "heroic" model, the one that says entrepreneurs take risks others refuse, freeing themselves from the bounds of convention. It isn't easy. Often, it isn't fun.

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Strategy Driven

JUNE 29, 2016

Clayton Christensen has described his initial “aha” moment as the realization that firms actually abandon some of their best innovations and entrepreneurial initiatives because their customers say they don’t want it. They have the luxury of waiting to see what tantalizing offer comes their way, and then deciding yeah or nay.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 19, 2019

Efosa Ojomo, global prosperity lead at the Clayton Christensen Institute, argues that international aid is not the best way to develop poor countries, nor are investments in natural resource extraction, outsourced labor, or incremental improvements to existing offerings for established customer bases.

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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. 799 143,000 179 Jeremie Kubecik Leadership Co-Founder of GiANT, speaker,entrepreneur and Bestselling author of Leadership is Dead. Author of @MeasureYourLife. 3 amazing kids and one great wife!

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 19, 2014

It lies behind successful product companies like Apple, Dropbox, and Kickstarter, but it can also lead entrepreneurs predictably to failure. “Scratch your own itch,” is one of the most influential aphorisms in entrepreneurship.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 12, 2013

But there are further reasons for optimism, and lessons for companies looking to understand the power of indigenous entrepreneurs in emerging markets. Clay Christensen’s research explores interdependent versus modular approaches to customer problems (pdf). First, Dangote’s deal is likely to happen.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 12, 2013

But there are further reasons for optimism, and lessons for companies looking to understand the power of indigenous entrepreneurs in emerging markets. Clay Christensen''s research explores interdependent versus modular approaches to customer problems (pdf). First, Dangote''s deal is likely to happen.

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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.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 20, 2014

Have you mastered the five skills that distinguish innovative entrepreneurs and executives from ordinary managers?

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 8, 2011

This week, over 10,000 entrepreneurs and investors will descend on Austin, TX for SXSW Interactive , hoping to be or to find the next big thing in technology. Some entrepreneurs will find funding, some will not. The emotional aspect may involve my liking the entrepreneur; perhaps he/she is my alter ego.

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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. Clayton Christensen likes to describe how, in the early stage of theory development, people make predictions based on observed correlations.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 15, 2016

If doing nothing leads to decline, projects with marginal projections actually are better alternatives than inaction (this misuse of financial tools for innovation is discussed in depth in a 2008 Harvard Business Review article by Clayton Christensen, Willy Shih, and Stephen Kaufman). Believing that good entrepreneurs seek out risk.

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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. Clayton Christensen likes to describe how, in the early stage of theory development, people make predictions based on observed correlations.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 7, 2017

To be sure, entrepreneurs in highly specialized and technical industries need the knowledge that only users (doctors, lawyers, engineers, and the like) can provide. Earlier this year, Sruthi Thatchenkery , Michael Christensen , Stefanos Zenios and I completed a study of 231 surgical instrument ventures over a 25-year period.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 22, 2011

Notwithstanding the considerable career and financial (I am the primary breadwinner) risks involved, it was time to leave my comfortable perch and become an entrepreneur. During this time, as I volunteered in public affairs for my church, I became acquainted with Professor Christensen. Time to disrupt myself. STOP IT.".

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 17, 2012

The Innovator's Dilemma by Clayton Christensen (which is also on John Coleman's list) builds on the notion of a growth mindset more specifically within a business context. Whether disruptive innovation involves a product, service, company, or especially, an individual, Christensen provides a robust theory for learning how to lead.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 29, 2010

But Eastern companies and entrepreneurs are gaining traction. And India's nation of entrepreneurs is driving change in market after market. In October, I described how two entrepreneurs told us about the business they had built — featuring a fully functional website and lead customers — for less than $10,000.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 23, 2011

Clayton Christensen's theories of innovation provide us a great lens through which we can understand this seeming paradox. When trying to build new growth businesses, Christensen observes that organizations need to employ an emergent strategy-making process. However, it will not succeed here.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 1, 2012

While $300 million might sound like a ridiculously large number to small business owners or entrepreneurs, leaders in many global giants consider the amount a drop in the bucket. Entrepreneurs often underestimate how long it will take them to produce revenues, and wildly miss how much they will have to invest to commercialize their idea.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 24, 2011

Breyer stands out — both in the room and the Twitter echo chamber — by sounding like an Old Testament prophet (or at least like Clay Christensen ): "traditional media companies unless they radically change. How do you survive such a seemingly unending series of waves? A few will survive, Schoendorf says.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 18, 2016

In The Innovator’s Dilemma, Clayton Christensen explains how incumbents actually pay a high price for actually doing a great job and constantly improving their technological offerings and creating overserved consumers. But to create new markets, disruptive entrepreneurs often overlook the possibility of emphasizing a different criteria.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 6, 2012

Yves Saint Laurent and Pablo Picasso — brilliant entrepreneurs as well as celebrated artistes — claimed inspiration from muses.So, apparently, did Steve Jobs. Perhaps the newly-knighted Sir Jonathan Ive has one, too. Creative dynamos have always sought the frisson of the divine revelatory spark. Why not a muse?

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 26, 2011

But a range of research has shown how successful entrepreneurs generally act differently from successful operators.*. Software entrepreneur Donna Auguste used this term when we worked together helping a newspaper company formulate new growth strategies. But I urge companies to consider three things. Look for the aliens.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 3, 2014

Companies and entrepreneurs can bring a sustainable solution, while unlocking massive economic opportunity, but a change is required from today’s status quo. Africa’s companies and entrepreneurs hold the key to making a real dent on the youth unemployment problem. A good training strategy is a competitive advantage.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 13, 2013

I featured Ronn, a former P&G executive (and current executive coach and entrepreneur), in several places in The Little Black Book of Innovation , most notably for his rant against the evils of focus groups. When Karl Ronn recently said, "Companies that think they have an innovation problem don't have an innovation problem.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 11, 2015

In my own research for my book, A More Beautiful Question , I found numerous examples of current-day entrepreneurs and innovators—including Netflix’s Reed Hastings , Square’s Jack Dorsey, and the team behind Airbnb —who relied on curious inquiry as a starting point to reinventing entire industries.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 9, 2010

A quick background on the players: the Summit was thrown by a new organization dedicated to green business leadership, with events aided mightily by friend and colleague, the uber-connected Aimee Christensen. The force behind the Awards was originally Sunil Paul, a clean tech investor and entrepreneur.

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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. It’s not easy for big companies to innovate.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 24, 2013

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. American tech entrepreneurs earned some bad press this year, but in HBR, they proved why more established firms should not stop watching them closely.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 2, 2017

Clay Christensen's landmark theory -- in under two minutes. They received generous expat remuneration packages and the tremendous opportunity to create their own social capital by meeting entrepreneurs and venture capitalists and being exposed to the frontier of ideas and technologies. Related Video.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 21, 2011

When doing a deal, I now spell out the rules of engagement early on, and hew closely, if not religiously, to the mantra of Clayton Christensen , our managing partner at Rose Park Advisors — "patient for growth, impatient for profits." Investing in an entrepreneur is a lot like falling in love. Start a business, yes.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 11, 2014

Most entrepreneurs still think that just because their technology is superior it will inevitably be widely adopted in the marketplace. Refrigerators replaced ice boxes. Propeller planes yielded to jet engines. Crest Whitestrips, for example, are radically more affordable and convenient than going to the dentist to whiten your teeth.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 24, 2013

Harvard scholar (and Innosight co-founder) Clayton Christensen guides innovators to be "patient for growth, and impatient for profits." If you plan for the norm and it happens that fortune smiles on you, at least try to remember the role luck played in your outcome when a young entrepreneur comes knocking for advice.

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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. Focus on a few questions that your team honestly can''t answer but is ready and willing to investigate. Winnow your questions down to three or four that truly matter.

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