First Friday Book Synopsis

MAY 4, 2013

To Harvard professor Clayton Christensen, coauthor of How Will You Measure Your Life?, Here is a brief excerpt from an interview conducted by Art Kleiner for strategy+business magazine, published by Bain & Company. Bain & Company Ceramics Process Systems Corporation Clayton Christensen CPS Technologies Corporation Curtis W.

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Jesse Lyn Stoner Blog

JUNE 27, 2013

Whitney Johnson is a leading thinker on driving innovation via personal disruption and a co-founder of Clayton Christensen’s investment firm Rose Park Advisors. RedStamp was just honored by Entrepreneur Magazine as 1 of 100 Brilliant Companies.

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Modern Servant Leader

JANUARY 15, 2015

Innovation Advocate. Contact: caduhigg@gmail 9 43,800 5,107 9,706 Clayton Christensen Innovation, Leadership Professor at Harvard Business School. Tweets with occasional assistance from the Fellows at the Forum for Growth & Innovation. Author of @MeasureYourLife. It is a manifesto of human creativity.

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Leadership Executive Coaching Goleman Emotional Intelligence 100

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 12, 2012

One way to do this is to look for "break technologies.". However, as Clayton Christensen aptly points out, disruption occurs over time — not in a specific instant. While the value chain will optimize for specific circumstances, often technologies are created that eliminate the need for certain pieces of an industry's value chain.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 12, 2012

The system then triggered a series of messages via TV and cell phone warning about the impending tsunami that came about nine minutes later — which, as a Time magazine reporter noted, "can be just enough time to take cover, drive a car to the side of the road, step back from getting on an elevator or stop medical surgery.".

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 22, 2011

Or as thought leader Jennifer Sertl writes, "innovation ultimately begins on the inside.". The term "disruptive innovation" has become an industry buzzword. Hence, the Innovator's Dilemma: whether you innovate or not, you risk downward mobility. But I've found that the rules of disruption apply to the individual too.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 7, 2013

Both articles espoused slightly new definitions of disruption, expanding the categorization of the world that Clay Christensen introduced us to more than 20 years ago. One of the articles reached millions of readers through one of the internet's most respected technology blogs. Incumbents were happy to walk away from these offerings.

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