Engaging Leader

SEPTEMBER 15, 2014

The new book The Innovator''s Method: Bringing the Lean Start-up into Your Organization, by Nathan Furr and Jeff Dyer, is a leader’s guide to validating new ideas, refining them, and bringing them to market. It presents a method for leveraging a set of tools emerging from lean start-up, design thinking, and agile software development.

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Uncertainty Organization Christensen Tactics 214

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 3, 2014

Our organization focuses mainly on plugging the ‘skills gap’: we identify, train, and place underprivileged youths in emerging industries like the hospitality sector. However, our experiences so far have highlighted opportunities for even broader impact through a different approach to in-house training at African companies.

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Training Company Metrics Real Estate 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 2, 2011

Editor's note: This post is part of a three-week series examining innovation in health care, published in partnership with the Advanced Leadership Initiative at Harvard University. Because the high end of most markets is where the most attractive profits are made, serving the most profitable customers. and Jason Hwang M.D.

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Health Care Disruptive Innovation Christensen Business Model 15

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. This requires a leadership team and work force that is always trying to ask the questions that can light up the big honking issues.”. So why open the floodgates?

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Company Ries Christensen Innovation 11

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 8, 2014

In the The Capitalists Dilemma, Clay Christensen and Derek van Bever suggest that leaders have been trained and socialized to their role as capitalists, and thus come to rely too heavily on familiar and traditional finance principles. Human resources Leadership Talent management'

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Charan Finance Human Resources Supply Chain 14