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Lead from the Future

Leading Blog

The authors point out that present-forward thinking innovation at most organizations is mostly incremental improvements to what they are already doing. Most founders are future-back thinkers, but “most incumbent organizations are led by people who are much less future-thinking than their founders.” Program & Implement the Strategy.

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096: Bringing the Lean Startup into Your Organization: Leadership in the Age of Uncertainty | with Jeff Dyer

Engaging Leader

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. Maybe you’ve tried to bring the idea to life, only to have it turn out to be an expensive, time-consuming failure.

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35 Leadership Quotes from the 10th Global Peter Drucker Forum

Leading Blog

Efosa Ojomo, Research Fellow, Clayton Christensen Institute. ? Leadership is a distributed capability throughout the organization. The three keys of successful transformation are leadership, talent and culture. The power of pull uses internal capabilities and create long-lasting impact. Talent works at the speed of culture.

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Entrepreneurs Need A Detailed Understanding Of Their Customer’s Problems

The Horizons Tracker

He suggested that the majority of organizations focus on the idea, the product, or the technology. Buses are good examples of what Haeckel referred to as “make and sell” organizations. Sadly, it’s a process that too many entrepreneurs, and indeed the organizations designed to support them, overlook.

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How Testbeds Can Help Us To Co-Create The Future

The Horizons Tracker

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. While involving end-users is hugely important, Bensaou also highlights the importance of involving a variety of people from within the host organization. Co-creating innovation.

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Leading to Disruptive Innovation

LDRLB

And to top it off, most organizations are set-up to reward predictability and control – the exact opposites of what’s required to lead during disruptive times. Christensen calls these attributes “discovery skills” which are all focused on the front-end of the innovation process related to identifying new opportunities.

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How to Motivate the Team? How can I Stay Motivated?

Mike Cardus

Finding What is Relevant About Your Work and Organization from Michael Cardus. Hjørland & Sejer Christensen, 2002). Who will benefit from the success of the team? 7: Implementation – getting work done; When working on teams what is successful in keeping the work relevant to the team and people on the team?