Engaging Leader

SEPTEMBER 15, 2014

Have you or your team ever come up with a big idea that you thought would be very cool, but didn’t take any action because you thought it would be too risky? Perhaps it was an idea for a new product or service, or a process change to solve a complex problem. Jeff is Professor of Strategy at Brigham Young University and Wharton.

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Uncertainty Organization Christensen Tactics 214

Eric Jacobson

OCTOBER 18, 2019

"The clearer your company culture, the less likely it will be hijacked by the weaker personalities in your team," explains Mary Christensen , author of the book, Be A Network Marketing Leader. "A A few guidelines will ensure a level playing field for all team members as they pursue their individual goals."

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Guidelines Christensen Company Operations 50

Eric Jacobson

MARCH 20, 2017

"The clearer your company culture, the less likely it will be hijacked by the weaker personalities in your team," explains Mary Christensen , author of the book, Be A Network Marketing Leader. "A A few guidelines will ensure a level playing field for all team members as they pursue their individual goals."

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Guidelines Christensen Company Operations 50

Eric Jacobson

NOVEMBER 3, 2016

"The clearer your company culture, the less likely it will be hijacked by the weaker personalities in your team," explains Mary Christensen , author of the book, Be A Network Marketing Leader. "A A few guidelines will ensure a level playing field for all team members as they pursue their individual goals."

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Guidelines Christensen Company Operations 50

Eric Jacobson

FEBRUARY 19, 2017

"The clearer your company culture, the less likely it will be hijacked by the weaker personalities in your team," explains Mary Christensen , author of the book, Be A Network Marketing Leader. "A A few guidelines will ensure a level playing field for all team members as they pursue their individual goals."

Guidelines 50

Guidelines Christensen Company Operations 50

Eric Jacobson

NOVEMBER 15, 2017

"The clearer your company culture, the less likely it will be hijacked by the weaker personalities in your team," explains Mary Christensen , author of the book, Be A Network Marketing Leader. "A A few guidelines will ensure a level playing field for all team members as they pursue their individual goals."

Guidelines 50

Guidelines Christensen Company Operations 50

LDRLB

DECEMBER 10, 2012

How Will You Measure Your Life by Clay Christensen, James Allworth & Karen Murphy. Clay Christensen new book helps build that foundation by taking well-research business concepts and outlining how to apply them to your own life. If you haven’t there’s still time left in 2012 to dig into these great books. Leadership.

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Innovation Strategy Books Christensen 167

The Horizons Tracker

AUGUST 5, 2020

In his latest book, Humanocracy , London Business School’s Gary Hamel teams up with his Management Lab colleague Michele Zanini to explore how organizations can better structure themselves for the modern age. It’s quite probable that we can repurpose our capabilities to thrive in new ways, if only we begin looking.

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Innovation Hamel Christensen Open-book 134

Lead Change Blog

DECEMBER 29, 2015

Would you like to meet my team? Here they are: Daniel Pink – In 2015, London-based Thinkers 50 named him, alongside Michael Porter and Clayton Christensen, as one of the top 10 business thinkers in the world. James DaSilva – James is a senior editor at SmartBrief and manages SmartBlog on Leadership.

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Porter Christensen Consultative Influence 150

LDRLB

JULY 17, 2012

In the book, the Innovator’s DNA , Clayton Christensen and colleagues list five behaviors that characterize innovative leaders: associational thinking, questioning, observing, networking and experimenting. On the strategic level, they continually push the limits of their teams, organizations, and partners. Data- Intuition Integration.

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Disruptive Innovation Innovation Christensen Kaplan 133

N2Growth Blog

JUNE 14, 2010

The most successful companies incorporate disruptive thinking into all of their business and management practices to gain distinctive competitive value propositions. So why do so many established and often well managed companies struggle with disruptive innovation? Are your management and executive ranks void of youth?

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Business Model Blog Disruptive Innovation Brand 338

Skip Prichard

SEPTEMBER 20, 2020

The definition I like to use is the that the person or team responsible ‘seeks problems to solve’ and where Insight + Ideas + Impact = Innovation. Who better to quote in this instance than the late, great, Clayton Christensen who famously answered this question in his book The Innovator’s Dilemma. ” -Sean Pillot de Chencey.

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Innovation Drucker Supply Chain Influence 104

The Horizons Tracker

DECEMBER 28, 2021

The late Clayton Christensen famously highlighted that consumers are not buying our product as much as they are hiring it to complete a particular job. Unfortunately, to use the vernacular of Stephen Haeckel , many innovators adopt a make and sell approach rather than sense and respond.

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Innovation Technology Christensen Operations 113

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. Schedule monthly whole team meetings. Keep yourself updated with what's happening in their personal lives. Pay attention.

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Team How To Tips Books 50

Mike Cardus

NOVEMBER 28, 2011

As a manager determining and being purposeful about delegating task that subordinates find relevant that are in-line with their values will achieve great work. The Relevance Enneagram is a tool that will uncover and focus the organization’s, team’s, staff’s and your values to increase productivity and people who love the work they do.

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Productivity Products Christensen Delegation 96

Mike Cardus

JUNE 29, 2011

The first area of determining what a person values about their work requires the manager to talk with them, observe them and for YOU to know and share what you value about your work. Hjørland & Sejer Christensen, 2002). How did you manage to acquire that task and what was the feedback/interaction with your manager about that task?

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Christensen Learning-by-Doing Goal Definition 116

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 24, 2016

But instead of telling him how to respond, I gave him what he really wanted: I laid out the theory of disruption for him and his team so that they could predict the next threat — or opportunity — in their path. When Intel’s microprocessor business was being threatened by low-cost competitors, he asked me what to do about it.

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Christensen Incentives Price Course 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 4, 2017

Disruption is a systemic problem: Clayton Christensen outlined in 1997 why it was so difficult for any individual business to defuse disruptive threats and embrace disruptive trends. They’ve read Christensen’s book The Innovator’s Dilemma. So naturally, as a manager, you left such innovations to new entrants.

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Christensen Finance Innovation B2B 8

Strategy Driven

JUNE 29, 2016

How do organizations achieve longevity, the kind of longevity that survives long past the founder or any particular leader or leadership team? It is fashionable today to have management committees, at various organizational levels, working as teams. Let me explain. Resistance from the Supplier. About the Author.

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Supply Chain Real Estate Resistance Competitive Advantage 52

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 28, 2018

Consistent with these famous case studies, scientific research shows that creativity and innovation can be enhanced by reducing team harmony. Likewise, a review of theoretical and quantitative studies showed that teams are often more creative when they have fewer rather than more resources (for example, time, money, and people).

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Creativity Team Christensen Innovation 13

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 8, 2017

One of the most exciting and — sometimes anxiety-producing transitions in a career — comes when you move from being an individual contributor to becoming a manager. So, as a new manager, how do you build an authentic and connected leadership presence that has a positive impact on your team and colleagues?

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Management Emotional Intelligence Leadership Drotter 15

Modern Servant Leader

JANUARY 15, 2015

Whether you need a leadership and management expert for yourself or your team, you’ll find someone great below. Contact: caduhigg@gmail 9 43,800 5,107 9,706 Clayton Christensen Innovation, Leadership Professor at Harvard Business School. Assisted here by Team LBJ. Project Manager at @courtinnovation.

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Leadership Executive Coaching Goleman Consultative 100

Mills Scofield

APRIL 15, 2014

Trust is a tool to assess and manage (reduce and/or increase) risk, depending on the situation. To create great music you need an ensemble — a trio, quartet, basically a team of players with complementary strengths, skills and vulnerabilities and a willingness to listen to each other and a common goal.

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Efficiency Energy Senge Resources 132

Deming Institute

JANUARY 19, 2017

In Clayton Christensen’s new book, Competing Against Luck , the authors delve into the importance of gaining a deep understanding of what your customers desire. That realization helped Moesta and his team begin to grasp the struggle potential home buyers faced. “I But I realized we were in the business of moving lives.”.

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Deming Christensen System Innovation 28

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 10, 2015

Many of us are familiar with the hazards of Groupthink - when teams or organizations operate on autopilot and feel a general false sense of invulnerability. In some rare cases, individuals are able to push back against team consensus and help organizations recognize and proactively respond to changes in the competitive landscape.

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Groupthink Team Consensus Christensen 8

Chart Your Course

JUNE 30, 2016

Every HR, OD professional, and management consultant should at the very least be aware of their existence, if not well-versed in their ideas and theories. In one of the defining management studies carried out in the 90s, Collins and his team complied a list of 1,435 companies in search of those special few that could truly be called “great.”

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Human Resources Talent Management Resources Ulrich 100

First Friday Book Synopsis

APRIL 15, 2012

Thinkers50 offers the definitive global ranking of management thinkers and is published every two years. The ranking is based on voting at the Thinkers50 website and input from a team of advisers led by Des Dearlove and Stuart Crainer. The 2009 winner was CK Prahalad.

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Prahalad Definition Globalization Team 80

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 11, 2015

Over the past six years, we have put in place a 30-person consulting team at EMC Information Infrastructure (EMC II) using a model we have found to be successful, winning projects away from external management consulting firms at a fraction of the cost, and with great “client” (that is to say, EMC) satisfaction.

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Consultative Team How To McKinsey 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 24, 2011

That book is The Innovator's Dilemma by HBS Professor Clay Christensen. Anyone familiar with Professor Christensen's work will quickly recognize the same causal mechanism at the heart of the Innovator's Dilemma: the pursuit of profit. A string of professional managers had led the company straight off the edge of that cliff.

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Innovation Christensen CFO Productivity 15

Harvard Business Review

MAY 15, 2014

Breakthroughs can also result from innovations in management. Managers, of course, are among the great rule inventors and implementers of the world. What if managers changed their approaches and got that set of rules right? We are not the first to point out to economists that management makes a difference.

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Management Drucker Short-term Technology 11

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 17, 2012

Recent corporate history is littered with successful established firms who failed to manage disruptive innovation even with full knowledge that it was coming. They knew digital photography was the future and invested heavily in hybrid technology in the hope of managing the transition from physical photo printing. It didn't work.

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Christensen Disruptive Innovation Mass Marketing Wireless 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 16, 2018

Note especially the brave, innovative management reflected in social enterprises such as the Sampark Foundation , where Vineet Nayar, former CEO of HCL Technologies, is on a mission to inspire kids in rural India to learn how to think and invent like frugal innovators. ” Purpose, moreover, means for him social purpose.

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Drucker Long-term Short-term Christensen 13

First Friday Book Synopsis

MAY 12, 2011

The Best Business Books Ever: The Most Influential Management Books You’ll Never Have Time to Read Basic Books (2011) Note: This review is of a book published earlier this year. What we have here is a series of brief discussions “the most influential management books you’ll [.]. It is a sequel to one published in 2003.

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Books Review Management Ansoff 85

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 24, 2015

And as usual, it reveals a lot about what managers around the world are thinking and worrying about right now. Reinventing Performance Management. Your Late-Night Emails Are Hurting Your Team. Two regions of the brain are particularly important for managers. Clay Christensen clarifies his theory.

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Article Christensen Disruptive Innovation Comparison 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 30, 2011

There are three founding partners : Clayton Christensen, Matt Christensen, and me. Next on deck is his son, Matt, the CEO and portfolio manager; then me. Empirical data also suggests this is true, that having women on a team raises the team's collective intelligence , improving their ability to solve complex problems.

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Christensen Sports Disruptive Innovation Learning-by-Doing 15

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 13, 2013

Practitioners have robust tools to discover opportunities to innovate, design, and execute experiments to address key strategic uncertainty; to create underlying systems to enable innovation in their organization; and to manage the tension between operating today's business and creating tomorrow's businesses. And it's absolutely necessary.

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Innovation Competitive Advantage Leadership Christensen 11

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 13, 2012

But the middle managers who contacted George to give a talk balked at his regular speaking fee, instead treating him like "a silicon chip supplier." If you cut through Clayton Christensen's management classic The Innovator's Dilemma , the root cause of failure in the face of disruptive change is the resource-allocation process.

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