Lead on Purpose

MAY 4, 2013

One of the great leaders and thinkers of our time is Clayton Christensen , ”a down-to-earth” alum of BYU, Oxford and Harvard. I found two recent articles about Clayton Christensen that have increased my understanding about leadership: The first is published in the BYU Magazine’s Spring 2013 edition. (As

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Christensen Disruptive Innovation Health Care Magazine 225

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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System Christensen Disruptive Innovation Telecommunications 15

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 22, 2011

We all want to start a disruptive company or invest in disruptive ventures, but in reality an innovation that takes place at the low-end of the market or where there is no market (yet) is just not that sexy. Because disruptive innovations are in search of a yet-to-be-defined market, we can't know the opportunity at the outset.

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Disruptive Innovation Christensen Metrics Innovation 16

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. The other article reached executives around the globe through publication in the HBR's print magazine. Incumbents were happy to walk away from these offerings.

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Christensen Disruptive Innovation Innovation Bottom-up 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 13, 2014

That happens to be what many if not most magazine editors in the U.S. When magazine editors do it, its journalism. Its a precursor  probably the most important precursor  to Clayton Christensens later work on disruptive innovation. After all, what most of Buzzfeeds 500 employees do is create lists and quizzes.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 4, 2014

All too often, when marketers talk about their “social strategy,” they really mean a digital marketing strategy implemented on social platforms, rather than using social dynamics to benefit their business. Pepsi actually lost market share and fell to number three in the cola wars for the first time in modern history.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 21, 2011

Several years ago, a friend had come to me with her dream: She wanted to start a magazine. The magazine got off to a great start: it was written up in the New York Times , circulation after a few months reached 100,000. I wasn't going to do this to our business partner and friend with her magazine dream. Start a business, yes.

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Due Diligence Magazine SWOT Christensen 14