Marshall Goldsmith

FEBRUARY 8, 2018

Whitney Johnson – Author of the critically acclaimed: Disrupt Yourself. Co-founder of Rose Park Advisors—Disruptive Innovation Fund. A leading thinker on strategy and breakthrough innovation. 14th Administrator, United States Agency for International Development. Garry Ridge – CEO, WD-40 Company.

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Strategy Driven

JUNE 29, 2016

Instead, longevity is based on entrepreneurial thinking and innovation – in exploring ways to adapt corporate and business strategies in response to market, technological, and social and cultural change. The hard truth is that companies that do not pursue corporate entrepreneurship are doomed. Resistance from the Supplier.

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N2Growth Blog

OCTOBER 10, 2010

The churches I had previously worked with operated from the the philosophy this is church, and if people want it they will come. You pointed out great potential outcomes, but the trick for many companies is creating the necessary paradigm shift in thinking that will allow these outcomes to become reality.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 5, 2018

We studied the sector for three years and came up with some very interesting findings about the “adjustment costs” that companies incur when they disrupt themselves. And firms operating in more competitive markets incurred approximately $600M higher cost of self-disruption than those in less competitive markets.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 1, 2012

They're bad at innovation by design: All the pressures and processes that drive them toward a profitable, efficient operation tend to get in the way of developing the innovations that can actually transform the business. But giving up the pursuit of innovation seems less than satisfying, if not unrealistic.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 27, 2012

Big companies are really bad at innovation because they're designed to be bad at innovation. In 1974, the company's growth potential was waning. Gerber's team knew if they could develop a quick, healthy meal for adults, they had an avenue into meaningful growth.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 25, 2011

Steve Jobs' legacy in product development has been clearly established and celebrated. What remains now is to determine his legacy in company development. To determine if indeed Apple has the "right architecture in the organization" to serially build disruptive products. But this would not be a unique achievement.

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LDRLB

MAY 26, 2014

Paul Nunes and I have known each other for many years, and we’ve both been writing about the subject of disruptive innovation from different vantage points and different angles. If it’s a Kickstarter kind of situation, they may be funding, actually, the development of the product before you’ve even put pen to paper.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 18, 2015

That’s no surprise, since Clayton Christensen co-founded our company in 2000, five years after his Harvard Business Review article with Joseph L. Bower “ Disruptive Technologies: Catching the Wave ” introduced the idea of disruption to the mainstream market. billion) even though it is a younger company.

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LDRLB

JANUARY 13, 2014

She was looking at these leaders, these middle managers in large companies that were in stagnant industries, but these managers were still able to have double-digit annual growth even though their industries were stagnating. Some are kind of innovation powerhouses. I joined Jeanne Liedtka and her research project in the Growth Leaders.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 9, 2016

For instance, in the HBR article “ Where the Digital Economy Is Moving the Fastest ,” the country with the fastest rate of digital development in the past, and the steepest trajectory for future digitalization, is Singapore. But digitalization does not necessarily translate into growth. A new business model.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 20, 2016

Within an enterprise, this means balancing the demands of current operations while laying the groundwork for future opportunities, as well as reviewing past activities and policies that may be holding back your organization. If the venture is an acquisition, keep it separate from your company’s main business.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 1, 2015

But what was once a natural feature of the competitive landscape has now become a trap for people and companies who are not able to adapt to a new landscape and change their focus. Two big, well-known tech companies neatly illustrate this shift. Profits appear more and more as a lagging indicator of yesterday’s innovations.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 11, 2013

Other new features announced at Apple''s World Wide Developers Conference Monday, such as the iOS 7 and Mavericks operating systems, had a bit more actual newness to them. The subject of whether Apple is still innovative has become an extremely touchy one over the past year. It takes a different kind of innovation to do that.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 30, 2013

He had developed an extensive plan, and had the promise of grant money behind him. It''s not about price, or code, or agile development. He is currently creating new businesses inside the Hearst Corporation, where he''s been driving the development of Manilla.com for almost 2 years. or you might not.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 2, 2014

I also love Uber as a student (and teacher) of disruptive innovation theory, because the challenges the transportation company is encountering as it seeks to expand into new cities helpfully illustrate how to assess an idea’s disruptive potential. It targets exactly the same customers that taxi companies want.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 8, 2016

Entrepreneurs in Chinese industries from animated media to applied medical research said that China’s insistence on domestic standards are resulting in less-ambitious innovation and that the education system is not supporting appropriate talent development. This presents Western companies with a fresh challenge.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 24, 2017

Since its HBR debut in 1995, the concept of disruptive innovation —the process by which a smaller company with limited resources is able to launch a product or service that displaces established competitors—has been extensively incorporated into startup vernacular. with previous startup and/or investing experience).

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 13, 2014

It used a unique asset that gave the company a leg up over competitors. The classic fingerprint of disruptive success. The simple truth is that Carol wasn’t in a position to absorb the early-stage losses that developing a disruptive idea almost always requires. Budgeting Disruptive innovation'

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 31, 2014

One of the first, and most lasting, pieces of career advice I received came from Linda Bush, my first project manager when I was a wee pup working at McKinsey & Company. Doing so for people who are locked out of a market is what made companies like eBay, Google, and Southwest Airlines the powerhouses they are today.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 7, 2012

Former congressman and CIA director Leon Panetta described it as "legalized bribery"; something which has just "become part of the culture of how this place operates.". It's a web-based movie service, and relative to a lot of players in the space, a disruptively innovative one. How to combat this if you're a big cable company?

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 19, 2016

CEOs should actively manage five specific tensions in today’s complex global business environment: Disruptive innovation versus leveraging the company’s core strengths. When confronted with disruptive technologies, many companies fail to align digital strategies with their core strategies.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 10, 2013

A generation ago, incumbents that struggled to respond to disruptive innovations had an excuse. Managers at companies like General Motors, Sears, and Eastman Kodak simply didn't have the tools to spot and respond to would-be disruptors. When a disruptive idea is first born, typically far away from the market's mainstream.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 28, 2013

services such as Kickstarter (and others including Indiegogo and Rockethub ) have operated on a donation model. I recently pledged $40 to support the development of the Polar stylus , a self-assembling modular pen made up largely of magnets. economy by removing excessive restrictions on investment in innovative start-ups.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 30, 2017

Finally, health care, which has been largely immune to the forces of disruptive innovation , is beginning to change. Employers and insurance companies — not end consumers — call the shots on what kind of care they will pay for. jennifer maravillas for hbr. The Whole-Person Approach.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 1, 2018

Unlike national oil companies and oil majors that typically take five to 10 years to develop conventional oil reserves, these independent and “unconventional” players have improved their drilling and fracturing technology to the point where they can respond within months to temporary spikes or dips in the market.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 23, 2011

However, once a venture identifies a successful business model and profit formula, the company should transition to executing a deliberate strategy. However, if you don't know what success looks like, the emergent strategy development process is required to eventually succeed.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 15, 2017

To accommodate frequent, fundamental changes to business models, leading retailers generally follow three principles that have been developed through trial and error, often in the midst of disruption. In the process, the company became better acquainted with its customers – what they liked to buy and how they liked to shop.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 9, 2011

That's the driving question behind the Management Innovation eXchange (MIX), , a web-based open innovation project dedicated to mustering the daring and creativity of the broadest base of thinkers and practitioners to reinvent management for a new age. Explore the fringe. It starts out there, on the edges, around the bend.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 8, 2012

To compete with this miraculous turnaround, Western companies, starting with Motorola, began to adopt Japanese methods. Now, almost every large Western company, and many smaller ones, advocate for continuous improvement. It has created tremendous value and still drives competitive advantage in many companies and industries.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 30, 2013

One of the most common complaints senior executives have about disruptive innovation is its seemingly snail-like pace. How is it, they wonder, that it takes us forever to pursue ideas that promise to create new markets when the world seems to be innovating at a dizzying pace? Why is that? Push to learn in market.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 4, 2014

In 2013, the company released a service called Virtual Technician to help existing drivers while also enabling new business models and revenue streams. The service gives drivers confidence, and that’s important for a driver who operates alone, often hundreds of miles from home. Disruptive innovation Information & technology Internet'

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 4, 2014

In 2013, the company released a service called Virtual Technician to help existing drivers while also enabling new business models and revenue streams. The service gives drivers confidence, and that’s important for a driver who operates alone, often hundreds of miles from home. Disruptive innovation Information & technology Internet'

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 9, 2014

First, some background: On September 17 th , NASA announced the winners of the $6.8bn “space taxi” contract which will fund the development and launch of new platforms to ferry astronauts to and from the International Space Station. ULA benefits from access to Blue Origin’s innovative designs and lean operations.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 10, 2013

Investors in publicly traded companies are understood to desire stable, predictable earnings and growth. The problems with public markets and quarter-by-quarter thinking are many, but for companies in fast-changing environments the biggest issue is that public markets are not patient — miss a quarter and the punishment can be severe.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 28, 2015

Technologies like 3-D printing, robotics, advanced motion controls, and new methods for continuous manufacturing hold great potential for improving how companies design and build products to better serve customers. Organizations develop processes through repeated problem solving. The Future of Operations. Insight Center.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 21, 2016

Powered by online technologies, they are sweeping across the economic landscape, striking down companies large and small. They’re “traditional” matchmaker businesses that have been operating platforms for connecting different groups of customers. After all, platforms, including disruptive ones, are nothing new.

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