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Three Year-End Innovation Takeaways from Asia

Harvard Business Review

One book that I'm looking forward to reading next year on this topic is Jeff Dyer, Hal Gregersen and Clayton Christensen's work on The Innovator's DNA. Finally, we need to develop training programs that give leaders the necessary skills to master the paradoxes that increasingly appear on management's agenda.

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HBR’s 10 Must Reads on Strategy: A book review by Bob Morris

First Friday Book Synopsis

HBR’s Ten Must Reads on Strategy Various contributors Harvard Business Press (2011) How to create “a unique and valuable position” by deciding what to do…and not do This volume is one of several in a new series of anthologies of articles that initially appeared in the Harvard Business Review, in this instance from 1960 until [.].

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Negotiating Innovation and Control

Harvard Business Review

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. Gilbert says he has found success from creating a "modular exchange" between the old and new business.

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How Will You Measure Your Company's Life?

Harvard Business Review

Clayton Christensen's book How Will You Measure Your Life has turned into a well-deserved best seller. The book traces back to Christensen's 2010 Harvard Business Review article , which was based on a speech he gave to that year's graduating Harvard Business School class. Inevitably, many potential future strategies involved tradeoffs.

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Why Can’t We Stop Working?

Harvard Business Review

As Harvard Business School professor Clay Christensen described in his mega-bestseller How Will You Measure Your Life? (with Karen Dillon and James Allworth), the ROI of work is immediately apparent. But according to Christensen, we may not be that different, either: it’s a matter of degree, and timing.