LDRLB

DECEMBER 10, 2012

How Will You Measure Your Life by Clay Christensen, James Allworth & Karen Murphy. Clay Christensen new book helps build that foundation by taking well-research business concepts and outlining how to apply them to your own life. If you haven’t there’s still time left in 2012 to dig into these great books. Leadership.

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Innovation Strategy Books Christensen 167

First Friday Book Synopsis

DECEMBER 15, 2013

How to Create a Business Culture That Will Ignite Passion, Engagement, and Innovation Nan Russell True Alignment: Linking Company Culture with Customer Needs for Extraordinary Results Edgar Papke Happiness: A New Perspective James Hadley […].

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Blog Christensen Rogers McKinsey 75

Lead Change Blog

DECEMBER 29, 2015

How do I lead my employees and serve them at the same time? Others may say that a leader’s focus needs to be on how to motivate productivity. How can we help the company reach the bottom line? And still others may say a leader must know how to inspire their employees. Would you like to meet my team? Ron Friedman, Ph.D. –

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Porter Christensen Consultative Influence 150

LDRLB

JULY 17, 2012

In the book, the Innovator’s DNA , Clayton Christensen and colleagues list five behaviors that characterize innovative leaders: associational thinking, questioning, observing, networking and experimenting. Leading disruptive innovation requires managing incredible levels of uncertainty. Adaptive Planning.

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Disruptive Innovation Innovation Christensen Kaplan 133

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? Are your management and executive ranks void of youth?

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Business Model Blog Disruptive Innovation Brand 361

Tanveer Naseer

DECEMBER 15, 2015

It’s the question that serves as the guiding focus of my talk with management thinker, writer, and author, Whitney Johnson. Whitney is the co-founder of Rose Park Advisors, an investment firm she co-founded with renowned innovation thinker Clayton Christensen.

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Disruptive Innovation Innovation Constraint Christensen 100

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 24, 2016

But he viewed each decision simply as a road marker that noted progress along the path of argument about how to improve. But this confidence served as a platform that allowed Andy to learn important things from every person — even Clayton Christensen. He was passionate about finding new ways to think about the business.

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Christensen Incentives Price Course 8

First Friday Book Synopsis

AUGUST 15, 2011

Dyer is a professor at Brigham Young University’s Marriott School of Management and co-author of The Innovator’s DNA: Mastering the Five Skills of Disruptive Innovators, co-authored with Hal B. [.].

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Tony Mayo

JULY 26, 2010

Biography of Werner Erhard, the Source of Executive Coaching How to Conduct a "Customer Listening Session" Twitter Log XII Spidertown by Abraham Rodriguez, Jr. Christensen titled, “ How Will You Measure Your Life? &# Along with plenty of great advice for new graduates he shared some keen insights on executive coaching.

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Executive Coaching Execution Mayo Strategy 113

Eric Jacobson

OCTOBER 30, 2016

Here, from the new book, Be A Network Marketing Leader , are some tips on how, as a leader, you can connect with your individual team members: Send cards on their birthdays and anniversary-of-joining dates. Keep yourself updated with what's happening in their personal lives. Show your support during personal or family crises.

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Team How To Tips Books 50

Deming Institute

JANUARY 19, 2017

In Clayton Christensen’s new book, Competing Against Luck , the authors delve into the importance of gaining a deep understanding of what your customers desire. To me this is a great example of extending Deming’s ideas with a great deal of useful content on how to effectively become more customer focused.

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Deming Christensen System Innovation 28

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 17

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

AUGUST 22, 2011

As the beach-read season comes to a close, check out these new and forthcoming books from HBR Press: How to Be Good at Performance Appraisals: Simple, Effective, Done Right. Learn how to master the art of the performance review: define job responsibilities, set goals, assess performance, provide recognition, and create development plans.

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Kaplan Christensen Books Disruptive Innovation 12

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 11, 2015

Over the past six years, we have put in place a 30-person consulting team at EMC Information Infrastructure (EMC II) using a model we have found to be successful, winning projects away from external management consulting firms at a fraction of the cost, and with great “client” (that is to say, EMC) satisfaction.

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Consultative Team How To McKinsey 8

First Friday Book Synopsis

DECEMBER 16, 2012

How to Create Leadership at Every Level L. I hope that at least a few of these recent posts will be of interest to you: BOOK REVIEWS Turn the Ship Around!: David Marquet The Dawn of Innovation: The First American Industrial Revolution Charles R. Morris Selling to China: A Guide to Doing Business in China [.].

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Blog Innovation Review Industry 95

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 2, 2013

Middle managers with limited resources and set evaluation metrics will simply operate in a predictable fashion. It's why Christensen's Innovator's Dilemma is so difficult to overcome. Small victories point us in the right direction, and small failures tell us how to change. No one notices them initially.

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Innovation Execution How To Ries 8

LDRLB

MAY 26, 2014

In that sense, the Christensen solution has become counterproductive; in fact, it’s become dangerous. They’re going to be support; they’re going to tell other users how to fix things when they don’t work right. The managers just don’t have the tool set often to operate. If you follow his advice, you’re going to wait too long.

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Early Adopters Rogers Disruptive Innovation Innovation 60

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 4, 2015

Unfortunately, most of us don’t know how to make the job decisions that lead to satisfaction. ” As a result, we often pick jobs for the wrong reasons, says Karen Dillon, coauthor of How Will You Measure Your Life. How do people treat each other? How Will You Measure Your Life? Christensen. Do they hug?

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Career How To Finance Case Study 8

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 11

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 16, 2018

Note especially the brave, innovative management reflected in social enterprises such as the Sampark Foundation , where Vineet Nayar, former CEO of HCL Technologies, is on a mission to inspire kids in rural India to learn how to think and invent like frugal innovators. ” Purpose, moreover, means for him social purpose.

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Drucker Long-term Short-term Decentralization 11

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 20, 2012

Here's a concrete example: I often talk about how Xerox (along with all its printer-making peers) is helping customers print less. As part of the fast-growing "managed print services" sector, the company shows organizations how to reduce the number of printers they use. But the present status quo.is

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Positioning Christensen Business Model Innovation 13

First Friday Book Synopsis

MARCH 7, 2011

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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Review Strategy Books Positioning 85

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 3, 2017

But their way of thinking about prosperity also offers direction for any managers who want to work harder to make the world better off: your mission is to imagine, develop, and launch more life-improving solutions, especially the kinds of goods and services that improve ordinary people’s lives. Many minds make lighter work.

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Christensen Technology Drucker Learning-by-Doing 10

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 24, 2015

And as usual, it reveals a lot about what managers around the world are thinking and worrying about right now. How to negotiate across cultures, with a useful two-by-two matrix. Reinventing Performance Management. Two regions of the brain are particularly important for managers. How to Overcome Burnout and Stay Motivated.

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Article Christensen Disruptive Innovation Comparison 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 10, 2011

Last week I attended an Executive Sustainability Summit hosted by Xerox , Waste Management (WM), and Arizona State University. The short conference brought together public and private sector managers working on environmental and social issues. billion "managed print services" (MPS) industry ( according to research firm IDC ).

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Productivity Products Christensen Document 15

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 23, 2015

’ It also answers the fundamental questions every manager must ask: How do we make money in this business? What is the underlying economic logic that explains how we can deliver value to customers at an appropriate cost?” And what does the customer value?’

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Business Model Drucker Christensen P&L 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 30, 2014

If it’s the former, that question you raised will be carefully considered and may trigger ongoing discussion — and possibly action — by the company’s managers and leaders. Questioning is also seen by many business leaders as “inefficient,” according to the author and Harvard Business School professor Clayton Christensen.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 13, 2013

Practitioners have robust tools to discover opportunities to innovate, design, and execute experiments to address key strategic uncertainty; to create underlying systems to enable innovation in their organization; and to manage the tension between operating today's business and creating tomorrow's businesses. And it's absolutely necessary.

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Innovation Competitive Advantage Leadership Christensen 10

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 7, 2012

Several years ago Clayton Christensen (author of The Innovator's Dilemma ) and colleagues at Innosight coined the phrase "jobs-to-be-done" as part of a methodology they use to build new billion dollar businesses. Share your observations about important jobs-to-be-done and chat about how to do them better.

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Disruptive Innovation Innovation Christensen Long-term 15

Harvard Business Review

MAY 28, 2015

Robotics is a good example: It’s obvious that it can increase productivity, but it takes some know-how to put robots to work. Managers constantly try to fit new market needs to existing processes and routines. How much of it comes from complementary materials processed by these tools or how you apply them?

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Technology Depreciation Christensen Short-term 8

N2Growth Blog

JANUARY 13, 2011

The reality is that many businesses are quick to recognize great ideas, but they often have no plan for how to successfully integrate them into their business model. All initiatives surrounding new ideas should include detailed risk management provisions. Failed initiatives are costly at several levels.

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Blog Innovation Strategic Planning Brand 413

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

MAY 7, 2015

Managing the growing overlap of work and life has become harder for this younger generation and for parents especially in the last five years: one of every three full-time workers surveyed reports this. Employees grapple with how to deal with the reality of flexibility stigmas and heavier work loads. So what should managers do?

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Survey Christensen Globalization Human Capital 8

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. Big companies began to attempt to manage innovation in a systematic way. In particular, watch for markets that historically were inhospitable to entrepreneurs.

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Innovation Venture Capitalist Entrepreneur Gilbert 15

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 24, 2012

The Kahn Academy, founded by Salman Kahn (a former hedge fund manager), is a not-for-profit, online venture that is currently revolutionizing K-12 education. If you want to know how, here is the obligatory TED video. It also manages to explain complex arguments without oversimplifying them.

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Video Education Christensen Hedge 14

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 6, 2013

The average hourly wage in management and technical consulting is $37.44; in legal services it’s $37.07. And look who’s winning that jobs race: As for the headline, yeah, yeah: most of the people in “management and technical consulting” jobs probably don’t have MBAs. An HBR Insight Center.

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Real Estate Health Care Finance Directory 13