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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Leadership Entrepreneur Innovation Books 52

Strategy Driven

JUNE 29, 2016

It is fashionable today to have management committees, at various organizational levels, working as teams. 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.

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Supply Chain Real Estate Resistance Competitive Advantage 51

Modern Servant Leader

JANUARY 15, 2015

Whether you need a leadership and management expert for yourself or your team, you’ll find someone great below. Contact: caduhigg@gmail 9 43,800 5,107 9,706 Clayton Christensen Innovation, Leadership Professor at Harvard Business School. Maybe you need a leadership development expert or public speaker. Author of @MeasureYourLife.

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Leadership Executive Coaching Goleman Emotional Intelligence 100

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 24, 2013

The result, I think, is a set of ideas that together are important, useful, and original, and that feel like quite an accurate account of the management concerns many of us shared in 2013. The right kind of project management — and project manager — really matters. government, excellent project management is extremely rare.

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Management Health Care Middle Management Agility 16

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 20, 2014

Have you mastered the five skills that distinguish innovative entrepreneurs and executives from ordinary managers? In this interactive Harvard Business Review webinar, Dyer describes these five key skills and explains how managers can develop them.

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Disruptive Innovation Innovation Skills Webinar 8

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

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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Net Present Value Entrepreneur Christensen Innovation 8

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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Venture Capitalist Christensen Entrepreneur Sports 14

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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Innovation Christensen Decisionmaking CTO 9

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. But Eastern companies and entrepreneurs are gaining traction. And India's nation of entrepreneurs is driving change in market after market.

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Innovation Venture Capitalist Entrepreneur Gilbert 15

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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Disruptive Innovation Christensen Metrics Innovation 16

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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Books Christensen Ries Disruptive Innovation 10

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 16, 2012

While management often espouses the notion that good ideas can come from everywhere, in practice there are "thinkers" who create strategies and designated "doers" who execute those strategies. Many of you know of Clay Christensen's iconic work the Innovators Dilemma. What could you do together? What would be one way to try it out?

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Christensen Business Model Decentralization Innovation 15

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 11, 2015

“If you’re the boss, and you manage by asking questions, you’re laying the foundation for the culture of your company or your group,” Grazer writes in his book, A Curious Mind. In many cases, managers and top executives have risen through the ranks by providing fixes and solutions, not by asking questions.

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Christensen Open-book CEO Entrepreneur 8

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. Global business Talent management'

Training 8

Training Company Metrics Real Estate 8

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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Innovation Competitive Advantage Leadership Christensen 9

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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Sports Christensen Innovation Class 13

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 23, 2012

After all, Lafley's bent is to manage innovation in a systematic, disciplined way. The duo (who are affiliated with Innosight) wrote a great book with Clayton Christensen last year called The Innovator's DNA. Lafley and not Steve Jobs on my list. From everything I've read, Jobs's approach relied more on his singular genius. Peter Sims.

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Innovation Ries Mauborgne Open-book 14

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 10, 2014

Meanwhile, the halls were filled with hundreds of investors and hundreds more entrepreneurs. One outside manager of many endowments I spoke to confirmed to me that there has been “no mandate” from clients to be investing in the future of higher education. “I See comments by Clayton Christensen and Mark Cuban ).

Real Estate 8

Real Estate Education Disruptive Innovation Asset Management 8

N2Growth Blog

JANUARY 13, 2011

Aside from being costly, a flawed execution can cast doubt on management credibility, have a negative impact on morale, taint the brand, adversely affect external relationships, and cause a variety of other problems for your business. All initiatives surrounding new ideas should include detailed risk management provisions.

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Blog Innovation Strategic Planning Brand 413

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 21, 2011

When we came to loggerheads with our partners, which we often did, because of the management and deal structure I had freely agreed to, my husband and I had little say in the critical decisions. Investing in an entrepreneur is a lot like falling in love. Lesson 3: Accurately assess your partners.

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Due Diligence Magazine SWOT Christensen 14

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. global information solutions company.

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Innovation Metrics Christensen Workshop 8

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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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

FEBRUARY 25, 2014

The most important way to mitigate risk is to become excellent at either engineering, product, selling, or operations and management. With all of these options to reduce the risk of starting a company, being a career entrepreneur is actually less risky than you think. Develop deep expertise — your best risk-mitigation strategy .

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Career Company IPO Christensen 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 27, 2016

Christensen has even re-entered the fold clarifying what he means when he uses the term. Firing hundreds of employees, upsetting your core business’ distribution partners, writing off billions of dollars of investment — these things are difficult for managers to even contemplate, and with good reason. Professor Clayton M.

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Disruptive Innovation Innovation Short-term Long-term 8

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. After all, technologies don’t dictate how they must be commercialized, managers do. Refrigerators replaced ice boxes. Propeller planes yielded to jet engines. But consumers don’t work like that.

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Disruptive Innovation Technology Industry Business Model 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 26, 2012

An organization's capabilities become its disabilities when disruption is afoot." – Clayton Christensen, The Innovator's Solution. Bill Ackman's hedge fund Pershing Square, for example, has $9 billion in assets under management and fewer than ten investment professionals.

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Disruptive Innovation Hedge Venture Capitalist Venture Funding 14

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 12, 2013

First, what if we created something that had the prestige of the Nobel Prize for innovation, and award it to an entrepreneur who commercializes a world-changing idea? What if we thought bigger? Here are my two suggestions.

Advertising 8

Advertising Innovation Christensen Long-term 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 6, 2014

In a collaboration to determine just how disruptive leaders find these compelling questions, Professor Clayton Christensen and I conducted nearly 40 interviews with renowned global leaders. But when Smith asked senior managers “How do we get 20 percent of our revenue outside of the U.S. by 2020?,”

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Innovation Disruptive Innovation Christensen Learning-by-Doing 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 30, 2013

In 2010, one of us was sitting in a room at the Harvard Business School with Eric Ries and a number of budding entrepreneurs. One of these young entrepreneurs in particular stood out. A good management team will be dedicated to creating product market fit, otherwise the business will flounder. Patient capital. Maximize autonomy.

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Company Ries Maturity Innovation 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 20, 2013

A tech entrepreneur based in New York, he is a coauthor of the book Passion & Purpose: Stories from the Best and Brightest Young Business Leaders. She''s is a co-founder of Rose Park Advisors, Clayton Christensen''s investment firm, and the author of Dare-Dream-Do: Remarkable Things Happen When You Dare to Dream. Are you improving?

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Advice Learning-by-Doing Career Open-book 10

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 4, 2015

“It’s important to enjoy spending time with your colleagues and your manager,” says Dillon. “You might try to convince your manager to let you work remotely for a month,” he says. “I’ve never known many managers to say no to people offering to help out.” Christensen.

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