N2Growth Blog

JUNE 14, 2010

While much has been written about corporate vision, mission, process, leadership, strategy, branding and a variety of other business practices, it is the engineering of these practices to be disruptive that maximizes opportunities. Are your management and executive ranks void of youth? Are any of your executives thought leaders?

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Business Model Blog Disruptive Innovation Brand 305

Mike Cardus

NOVEMBER 8, 2013

Hjørland & Sejer Christensen, 2002). Definition of Relevance : Something (A) is relevant to a task (T) if it increases the likelihood of accomplishing the goal (G), which is implied by T. 1 = What is relevant to people on the team. 1: Explain & explore the skill sets and why each person was chosen to be on this team.

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Motivation Team Team Building Christensen 139

The Horizons Tracker

FEBRUARY 22, 2022

But in industrial deployments, think 5G powered ports, mines, and factories, operations can re-configure the signal to support even faster upload speeds,” Brian Chamberlin, Executive Advisor, Huawei Carrier Marketing, says. “ There are cases with upload speeds of over 1Gbps. You simply cannot do that with 4G or with Wi-Fi.

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Stephenson Wireless Christensen Automotive 84

Mills Scofield

APRIL 15, 2014

Add to this that more and more interfaces are standardized and subjected to competition (per Clay Christensen ) and we are seeing an emerging alphabet — components that can be assembled in endless combinations as manifestations of unique ideas. Personal leadership and character become more important.

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Efficiency Energy Senge Resources 132

Chart Your Course

JUNE 30, 2016

It is hands-down the most popular leadership book of all time. He demonstrates that the ability to build trust is THE key leadership competency of the new global economy. The Five Dysfunctions of a Team: A Leadership Fable (2002). The Effective Executive: The Definitive Guide to Getting the Right Things Done (1967).

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Human Resources Talent Management Resources Ulrich 100

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 13, 2013

They have a leadership problem," I listened carefully. 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. And it's absolutely necessary. It isn't either/or. It is both/and.

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Innovation Competitive Advantage Leadership Christensen 11

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 2, 2013

Without the foresight and intervention of senior leadership, the firm will simply concentrate on the opportunities that it was destined to concentrate on. It's why Christensen's Innovator's Dilemma is so difficult to overcome. Executives think they're buying into that future, and don't always see the long, arduous path to get there.

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Innovation Execution How To Ries 8

First Friday Book Synopsis

DECEMBER 2, 2012

I hope that at least a few of these recent posts will be of interest to you: BOOK REVIEWS The Complete Executive Karen Wright Harder Than I Thought Robert D. Austin, Richard L. Nolan, and Shannon O’Donnell HR Strategic Project Management SPOMP Leon M. Hielkema INTERVIEWS Matthew E. May: Second Interview, Part 1, by Bob [.].

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Blog Project Review Execution 89

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 29, 2012

Not a bad metaphor for work, life, and leadership. Easier than we all think (and Clayton Christensen's The Innovator's Dilemma is one of the best books around on leadership drift). So here's one simple metric you might consider to assess your personal leadership "drift." We live in a world of uncertainty.

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Leadership Christensen Innovation Metrics 13

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. Innovation Leadership Strategy'

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Levitt Christensen Competitive Advantage Welch 11

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 22, 2011

By Jeff Dyer, Hal Gregersen, and Clay Christensen. Alongside Clay Christensen, Jeff Dyer and Hal Gregersen conducted an in-depth study that uncovered the five skills shared by the best innovators in the world. The Innovator's DNA: Mastering the Five Skills of Disruptive Innovators. By Sylvia Ann Hewlett and Ripa Rashid.

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Kaplan Christensen Books Disruptive Innovation 12

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 10, 2011

Of course, that young HBS professor was Innosight co-founder Clayton Christensen. Academic journals have dissected the disruptive innovation theory and hundreds of thousands of students around the world have seen Christensen's famous model. Perhaps the root problem is leadership limitations. So, why has this dilemma persisted?

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Innovation Disruptive Innovation Christensen Kahneman 15

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 26, 2012

This happened to me in 1988, when I was an executive vice president at Honeywell, en route to the top. My colleague, Harvard Professor Clayton Christensen, addressed this topic in his HBR article, How Will You Measure Your Life? But then, Christensen says, they started making exceptions to the rules "just this once.".

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Christensen Self-aware Short-term Long-term 14

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 7, 2011

Yahoo's shareholders should be waiting to rejoice until the new chief executive is announced. Clayton Christensen has long been a proponent of hiring managers with the right " schools of experience." Boards tend to look at candidates for executive positions and hire them based on past success in generating shareholder return.

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Christensen Price CEO Media 13

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 30, 2014

Questioning is also seen by many business leaders as “inefficient,” according to the author and Harvard Business School professor Clayton Christensen. This requires a leadership team and work force that is always trying to ask the questions that can light up the big honking issues.”.

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Company Ries Christensen Innovation 11

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 1, 2012

Then I read Clay Christensen and Joe Bower's 1995 article "Disruptive Technologies: Catching the Wave" in HBR. Christensen and Bower's article offered the counterintuitive notion that great companies fail for the same reasons they initially experience success. Still, it enabled Medtronic to expand into the Chinese market.

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Disruptive Innovation Christensen Telecommunications Incubator 8

First Friday Book Synopsis

JULY 30, 2011

Here’s a recent post by the folks the Drucker Exchange (the Dx) that hosts an ongoing conversation about bettering society through effective management and responsible leadership.

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Drucker Management Leadership Disruptive Innovation 85

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. Champion : Senior leadership must champion any new idea being adopted.

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Blog Innovation Strategic Planning Brand 384

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. To reverse this, senior leadership took a number of steps.

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Innovation Metrics Christensen Workshop 9

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 13, 2012

An acquaintance of mine (let's call him George) is an acknowledged thought leader on a topic that the senior-most executives at a particular company had placed high on their agenda. But the middle managers who contacted George to give a talk balked at his regular speaking fee, instead treating him like "a silicon chip supplier."

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Christensen Middle Management Short-term Long-term 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 11, 2015

When asked recently to name the one attribute CEOs will need most to succeed in the turbulent times ahead, Michael Dell, the chief executive of Dell, Inc., Advising business leaders to “be more curious” sounds simple enough, but it may require a change in leadership style. replied , “I would place my bet on curiosity.”

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Christensen Open-book CEO Entrepreneur 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 24, 2013

The good news is that millennial men are changing the way they define leadership and demanding work that fits around their families. 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.

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Management Health Care Middle Management Agility 19

Harvard Business Review

JULY 30, 2014

(Short-term thinking has been charged with no less than a chronic decline in innovation capability by Clayton Christensen who termed it “the Capitalist’s Dilemma.” ) Corporations continue to focus too narrowly on shareholders , with terrible consequences – even at great companies like IBM. Other universities followed.

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Six Sigma Drucker P&L Short-term 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 18, 2011

Education played a critical role in helping Intel formulate and execute the Celeron strategy. I am willing to bet that you'll get a range of different answers. The Celeron processor slowed the advances of disruptive attackers such as Advanced Micro Devices (AMD) and Cyrix, and became a substantial business for Intel.

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Power Consensus Christensen Disruptive Innovation 12

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. Catalytic Questioning ensures this essential leadership skill improves over time to unlock even better, more creative solutions. Step 5: Get to work! Find some answers.

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Brainstorming Christensen Disruptive Innovation Innovation 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 12, 2013

How much less risky does it feel to embattled executives charged with innovating to instead follow along with the prevailing trends? Perhaps the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation or the Clinton Global Initiative could fund the award, with support from world-leading academics like Clayton Christensen and Rita McGrath.

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Advertising Innovation Christensen Long-term 9

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. This is hard work and many of the executives representing their companies are in fairly thankless positions.

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Christensen Policies Entrepreneur Industry 12

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 3, 2014

In his work on interdependence vs. modularity (pdf, page 13) , Harvard Professor Clay Christensen predicts that firms with integrated architectures perform very well in under-served markets with ‘not-good-enough’ products. Company executives can set a good example by being transparent in receiving feedback from subordinates.

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Training Company Metrics Real Estate 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 25, 2011

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. If I'd been able to clearly articulate what I wanted from this executive perhaps he would have responded more positively.

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Mentor Christensen Incubator Learning-by-Doing 15

Harvard Business Review

MAY 8, 2017

Yet these executives also had an outsider role where they worked on an emerging growth business or consciously explored external opportunities, giving them critical distance from the core. Clay Christensen , Professor at Harvard Business School and Innosight co-founder. They had 14 years of tenure on average before getting the top job.

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Franchising CEO Business Model Strategy 15

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. Celine Schillinger sought to change the leadership landscape of Sanofi, a major pharmaceutical company. Executing on Innovation. An HBR Insight Center.

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Innovation Christensen Decisionmaking CTO 11

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 16, 2012

"Leadership" has changed when a decentralized group of people can take down a government. 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. From centralized to distributed. Everything.

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Christensen Business Model Decentralization Innovation 16

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 15, 2012

But you know, my leadership team is smart. Academics offer up at least three answers: Clayton Christensen asserts that a single organization can't house two competing systems; companies seeking to drive disruptive growth therefore need to create spinoff organizations. That iteration-itis post you wrote really hit home," she said.

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Innovation Gilbert Govindarajan Christensen 14

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 10, 2015

As Clayton Christensen and many others have demonstrated , the management practices prevailing in most companies tend to stifle any dialogue on ideas that arise from the shop floor or the front line. Many attempts to introduce distributed management fail because executives and directors take themselves out of the equation.

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Proposal Self-aware Engineering CEO 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 20, 2013

What leadership position — perhaps that no one else wants — can you leverage to build connections and a solid professional reputation? 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. Whitney Johnson.

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Advice Learning-by-Doing Career Open-book 12

Harvard Business Review

MAY 18, 2017

Kaplan’s balanced scorecard or Clayton Christensen’s disruptive innovation. The article defines the types of decisions executives have to make; lays out best practices for structuring major decisions; and warns about typical mistakes that get made along the way. Great leadership is extraordinarily difficult.

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Management Balanced Scorecard NPV Article 9

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 8, 2013

While it might have been written as a treatise of what women could be doing to more of to gain more leadership positions in our organizations, and how we would all benefit from that happening, there was something else that stood out for me: it read as a pretty comprehensive list of things that the men have been doing wrong. The end result?

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Career Long-term Christensen Advice 8