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Disruptive Business Models | N2Growth Blog

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When was the last time your executive team brought in some new blood by recruiting a rock star? Does anyone on your executive team have a coach or mentor? Has anyone on your executive team attended a conference on strategy, innovation or disruption in the last year? Has your business embraced social media? via n2growth.com [.]

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Why Preventing Disruption in 2017 Is Harder Than It Was When Christensen Coined the Term

Harvard Business Review

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. Asset-light businesses are not financed with debt.

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Is Venture Capital Broken?

Harvard Business Review

Our research suggests that investors like us succumb time and again to narrative fallacies, a well-studied behavioral finance bias. 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.

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Is Venture Capital Broken?

Harvard Business Review

Our research suggests that investors like us succumb time and again to narrative fallacies, a well-studied behavioral finance bias. 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.

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Keep Listening, but Start Talking

Harvard Business Review

There are three founding partners : Clayton Christensen, Matt Christensen, and me. Over a decade ago, management thinker Tom Peters wrote "there is little disagreement about what businesses must become: less hierarchical, more flexible and team-oriented, faster and more fluid. But here's the rub.

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The Get-Big-Quick Fallacy

Harvard Business Review

If you are a growth-obsessed startup and venture capital financing dries up and buyers grow scarce, you can run out of money. In fact, we''d be worried if a team were too dogmatic about its path to profits. A pure focus on growth carries risks. There are wonderful exceptions to this rule.

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The Disruption of Venture Capital

Harvard Business Review

An organization's capabilities become its disabilities when disruption is afoot." – Clayton Christensen, The Innovator's Solution. ".most often the very skills that propel an organization to succeed in sustaining circumstances systematically bungle the best ideas for disruptive growth.