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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Innovation Disruptive Innovation How To Skills 75

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 20, 2014

Have you mastered the five skills that distinguish innovative entrepreneurs and executives from ordinary managers? Through their research on the world’s best innovators—including leaders at Amazon, Apple, Google, Skype, and Virgin Group—these authors have identified five key skills that differentiate great innovators.

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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

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 13

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. This is often a question of how close to the frontlines you want to be. How do people treat each other?

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Career How To Finance Case Study 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 7, 2012

For a more detailed look at these skills, see The Innovator's DNA ). Applying the skills disruptive innovators use to your job search can help you unearth more, and better, opportunities. Here's how: Step 1. 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 16

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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Company Ries Christensen Innovation 11

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. All things being equal, of course, you'd rather have a skilled entrepreneur than an unskilled one. That point led to spirited discussion with my VC friends.

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Innovation Venture Capitalist Entrepreneur Gilbert 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

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. And Hart is not the only one who has developed this skill. That takes work and imagination to get right.

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Video Education Christensen Hedge 15

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 26, 2012

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

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Disruptive Innovation Hedge Venture Capitalist Venture Funding 15

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 12, 2013

It was a darker view of the future than I had ever hoped my son would have, and it certainly got me thinking about how to make the negative case during the debate. But they need highly skilled innovators to lead those kinds of innovation efforts. This was innovation all right – an innovation-induced wasteland.

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Advertising Innovation Christensen Long-term 9

Harvard Business Review

MAY 8, 2017

We see an interesting pattern across the professionally managed companies, those whose CEOs were hired by the board. That knowledge helped them understand how to make change happen inside an organization. Clay Christensen , Professor at Harvard Business School and Innosight co-founder.

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Franchising CEO Business Model Strategy 15

Harvard Business Review

JULY 27, 2012

Clayton Christensen's book How Will You Measure Your Life has turned into a well-deserved best seller. Beyond drawing individual lessons from the book, corporate leaders should turn the central framing question on their organizations — asking how they will measure their company's lives. Employee satisfaction.

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Christensen Company Consensus Gilbert 14

Harvard Business Review

MAY 18, 2017

Garvin was a generalist more than a specialist, perhaps because he came of age at HBS during the 1980s, when the school’s primary focus was the development of skilled general managers. Kaplan’s balanced scorecard or Clayton Christensen’s disruptive innovation.

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Management Balanced Scorecard NPV Article 9

Leading Blog

JULY 31, 2012

MarkDMcKinney: How sales people really feel! Bill_George: Fellow HBS professor Clay Christensen shares 15 business theories to improve your life. Check out @porrojd 's blog " Tough Talk for Hard Times " for improving your communication skills. Nearly Half of Managers Say Coworker Competitiveness Has Increased in Last Decade.

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