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Meet My Next Group of Coaches!

Marshall Goldsmith

Whitney Johnson – Thinkers 50 award-winning Management Thinker 2015-17, Disruptive Innovation expert, author Disrupt Yourself: Putting the Power of Disruptive Innovation to Work. Mike Sursock – Head of Operations Group at Baring Private Equity Asia. Bryan Miller – Larry H.

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Introducing 100 Coaches: Pay It Forward Champions

Marshall Goldsmith

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. Garry Ridge – CEO, WD-40 Company. a holding company that operates seven distinct business.

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The Right and Wrong Ways to Regulate Self-Driving Cars

Harvard Business Review

Startups and major tech companies, notably Alphabet’s Google X division , are investing heavily in smart car technology, as are network ride-sharing companies such as Uber and Lyft. While cars have been getting smarter and smarter, the removal of human operators is what will dramatically change the law. traffic deaths.

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LeBron on Ice, or the Fallacy of the Corporate Superstar

Harvard Business Review

His skills and work ethic suggest that it would be reasonable to assume he could have been a world-class ice hockey player if he had dedicated himself to the sport as a youth. A company makes the strategic decision to create a group dedicated to the creation of innovative growth businesses. That's no dig on James.

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How Merck Is Trying to Keep Disrupters at Bay

Harvard Business Review

Pharmaceutical companies, buffeted by regulatory changes, new drug technologies that alter entry barriers and competition, price pressures, and an estimated 300,000 job cuts since 2000, seem to fit the popular narrative of large organizations unable to deal with disruptive forces. Merck and Co.

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Remembering Ronald Coase

Harvard Business Review

But I''ve just finished work on a new book with Paul Nunes on the new age of disruptive innovation (based on our March 2013 HBR article, " Big Bang Disruption "). Coase, then a spry 80 year-old, asked the most interesting questions, and delighted our hosts with stories about the company''s early history.

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