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Lead from the Future

Leading Blog

In The Innovator’s DNA , Clay Christensen identified five attributes that correlate closely with Future-Back Leadership: associating, questioning, observing, experimenting, and networking. The tyranny of the present quickly pulls us back into a short-term present-focused mindset.

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Mindful Leadership And Personal Values

Joseph Lalonde

The crisis was an eye opener for many leaders who were guilty of measuring success in monetary terms. Clayton Christensen, a Harvard Professor says that only few people tend to hurt others and be dishonest in the initial stages of their career. Nevertheless, many leaders fall into this trap even without knowing what is happening.

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What Is The Job Metaverse Is Trying To Do?

The Horizons Tracker

At the heart of their approach is their Omniverse platform, which is an open-source tool that allows people to actively build their own virtual worlds and they foresee most applications in the short-term being driven by and for businesses.

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Just because you can make an omelet, doesn’t mean you’re a restaurateur!

Mills Scofield

” [1] It is simple, but not easy and in today’s world very short-lived. Most organizations think of innovation in terms of creating value: products, services and experiences. ” Clayton Christensen , an advisor to BIF, taught us that customers are hiring companies to “do a job” for them.

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0511 | Larry Downes: Full Transcript

LDRLB

Talk about some of the ideas that kind of led you both to wanting to write this book, and then we’ll get into what this term big bang disruption means. In that sense, the Christensen solution has become counterproductive; in fact, it’s become dangerous. I’ve really enjoyed that for this book. LARRY: Sure.

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In 2014, Resolve to Make Your Business Human Again

Harvard Business Review

As Clayton Christensen likes to note , the primary job of leadership today is to “source, assemble, and ship numbers.” And short-term numbers at that. Thought leaders like Christensen, Roger Martin , Michael Porter , and Steve Denning have all argued that shareholder value has been exposed as a flawed paradigm.

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Create Early Warning Systems to Detect Competitive Threats

Harvard Business Review

Corporations should have early warning systems to detect emerging competitive threats that have long-term potential to affect their business. The work of two of the most important scholars in the field, Clayton Christensen and Richard N. becomes mainstream just a few short years later.

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