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Clayton Christensen on “The Discipline of Managing Disruption”

First Friday Book Synopsis

To Harvard professor Clayton Christensen, coauthor of How Will You Measure Your Life?, Bain & Company Ceramics Process Systems Corporation Clayton Christensen CPS Technologies Corporation Curtis W. a primary task of leadership is asking questions that anticipate great challenges.

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Lead from the Future

Leading Blog

The authors offer a three-step process to help leaders develop visionary strategies and bring them to life. Manage initiatives with an explore, envision, and discover process so senior teams and innovation teams can learn their way to success together. Develop Your Vision.

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Why do so many leadership development programs fail?

Great Results Team Building

And to further support the above findings, effective leadership training rwas found to requires not only passive learning, but changes in leadership behaviors (Kirkpatrick, 1994; Nielsen, Randall, & Christensen, 2017). The process of becoming an EFFECTIVE LEADER addresses each of those issues. So let’s work backwards….

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Some ?What If?? Questions You Should Be Asking Right Now

Next Level Blog

Innovation – The late, great Harvard Business School professor Clayton Christensen was famous for coming up with and exploring the idea of disruptive innovation – the impact a small upstart company can have on an industry when it disrupts the competitive landscape by doing something radically new that works.

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Entrepreneurs Need A Detailed Understanding Of Their Customer’s Problems

The Horizons Tracker

In Corporate Explorers , Stanford’s Charles O’Reilly and colleagues describe five practices that can help entrepreneurs undertake this process of customer discovery: Accept our biases – It’s natural when we approach matters from a “make and sell” perspective that we grow to love our idea.

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The Innovator's DNA

CEO Blog

I read a great book by Clay Christensen , Jeff Dyer and Hal Gregersen called The Innovator's DNA - Mastering the Five Skills of Disruptive Innovators. Christensen is one of the great thinkers of our time. This would be why the 5 Why's process of improvement works. We are having a lovely rain day today. The gardens need it.

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

Engaging Leader

Perhaps it was an idea for a new product or service, or a process change to solve a complex problem. Perhaps it was an idea for a new product or service, or a process change to solve a complex problem. It presents a method for leveraging a set of tools emerging from lean start-up, design thinking, and agile software development.