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Leading to Disruptive Innovation

LDRLB

Disruptive innovation is no longer the exception, it’s the rule. If we’re not proactively driving disruption, we’ll eventually need to react to it. Five personal leadership competencies are essential for success in today’s environment: A Leapfrogging Mindset. Adaptive Planning. Savoring Surprise.

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Upcoming Free Webinar

LDRLB

To celebrate the upcoming launch of LDRLB contributor Soren Kaplan’s new book Leapfrogging: Harness the Power of Surprise for Business Breakthroughs , we’ve arranged for a free webinar for the LDRLB community. Leading Disruptive Innovation. Description: Disruptive innovation is no longer the exception, it’s the norm.

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New Books from the Press - End of Summer

Harvard Business Review

The Innovator's DNA: Mastering the Five Skills of Disruptive Innovators. Alongside Clay Christensen, Jeff Dyer and Hal Gregersen conducted an in-depth study that uncovered the five skills shared by the best innovators in the world. By Robert Kaplan. By Jeff Dyer, Hal Gregersen, and Clay Christensen.

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How to Use Uncertainty and Surprise for Breakthroughs

LDRLB

Big visions, carefully crafted strategies, and detailed plans are signs of great leadership. Could we be ignoring the most fundamental tool that anyone can use to create disruptive innovation and change? But early on, CEO Scott Cook and his leadership team kept hearing that small businesses were using the product.

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Reflecting on David Garvin’s Imprint on Management

Harvard Business Review

Kaplan’s balanced scorecard or Clayton Christensen’s disruptive innovation. A follow-up article, coauthored with Amy Edmondson and Francesca Gino, delved more deeply into such issues as psychological safety, openness to new ideas, and leadership attention. Great leadership is extraordinarily difficult.