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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N2Growth Blog

JUNE 14, 2010

It takes skillful attention to self-cannibalization, a bias toward innovation and recognition that 'sacred cows' often become someone else's T-Bone dinner steak. Then, we have the challenge to make our changes less threatening, so productive communication skills are a must. Thanks for adding value to the discussion Rick.

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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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First Friday Book Synopsis

JANUARY 9, 2012

The Little Black Book of Innovation: How It Works, How to Do It Scott D. Anthony Harvard Business Review Press (2012) How to develop and then apply the skills needed to create “something different that has impact” I have read and reviewed all of the other books that Scott Anthony has authored or co-authored and [.].

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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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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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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 Will You Measure Your Life?

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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. Within that structure, questioning by employees can be perceived as a challenge to authority. Provide the tools to question well.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 7, 2017

Earlier this year, Sruthi Thatchenkery , Michael Christensen , Stefanos Zenios and I completed a study of 231 surgical instrument ventures over a 25-year period. ’ … I know very well how to help a company optimize its product … but I don’t know how to invent something that was never invented before.”

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 29, 2010

All things being equal, of course, you'd rather have a skilled entrepreneur than an unskilled one. As these companies figure out how to realize their full innovation potential, we could see some amazing things. Increasingly, I've heard people at large companies ask how to create human resource systems that support innovation.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 24, 2012

And Hart is not the only one who has developed this skill. The problem, as Clay Christensen has recently emphasized, is that students rarely learn at the same rate, let alone in the same way. What she does cannot be done in a classroom because she has to speed up the images relative to her speech.

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Video Education Christensen Hedge 14

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. The latter are troublesome because the knowledge base and skills required to operate in the new realm are so fundamentally different. Organizations develop processes through repeated problem solving.

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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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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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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 1, 2017

To figure out how to act on the laundry issue cropping up in our data, we had to start by better understanding what our guests really wanted from us (beyond clean, undamaged clothes being returned on time). These may be areas where being “good enough” is not good enough.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 8, 2017

That knowledge helped them understand how to make change happen inside an organization. Clay Christensen , Professor at Harvard Business School and Innosight co-founder. ” Make no mistake, they have substantial relevant experience. They had 14 years of tenure on average before getting the top job.

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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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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. How to Remember You're a Manager and Not Royalty by @scotteblin.

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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. He didn’t produce one signature idea, like Robert S.

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