Christensen Execution Finance Management 
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. So why do so many established and often well managed companies struggle with disruptive innovation?
Harvard Business Review
SEPTEMBER 4, 2017
Disruption is a systemic problem: Clayton Christensen outlined in 1997 why it was so difficult for any individual business to defuse disruptive threats and embrace disruptive trends. They’ve read Christensen’s book The Innovator’s Dilemma. So naturally, as a manager, you left such innovations to new entrants.
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Harvard Business Review
AUGUST 16, 2011
Clayton Christensen would agree with the intuition that Groupon displays but ignores: businesses should become profitable before they become big. The best way to manage a fledgling business is for managers to be impatient for profit but patient for growth.
Harvard Business Review
JANUARY 13, 2014
As Clayton Christensen likes to note , the primary job of leadership today is to “source, assemble, and ship numbers.” Thought leaders like Christensen, Roger Martin , Michael Porter , and Steve Denning have all argued that shareholder value has been exposed as a flawed paradigm. No, it’s to maximize shareholder value.
Harvard Business Review
JULY 11, 2016
I consulted 20 professionals who have worked with or supervised interns in higher education, business, law, and nonprofits, and compiled the most valuable advice for interns from their stories, my own observations, and management literature. Ryan, an executive in a municipal government, says, “Always be on time. Be resourceful.
N2Growth Blog
JANUARY 13, 2011
You see, while creativity is a clearly a valuable asset, unbridled creativity where random, disparate ideas abound outside of a sound decisioning and execution framework will create distraction and chaos much more often than they will lead to innovation. Every task should be assigned and managed according to a plan and in the light of day.
Harvard Business Review
MARCH 21, 2011
To paraphrase from "The Music Man," I am a sadder but definitely a wiser girl after this first encounter with venture financing, as this experience has become a well of lessons from which I draw daily in my personal and professional life. As we moved from idea to execution, I asked another friend to take a key role in the project.
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