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Revealing Leadership Insights From Thinkers50

Tanveer Naseer

And, the winner of the 2013 Thinkers50, Clay Christensen, now sees his ideas of disruptive innovation used and applied by managers in their relentless quest for competitive advantage. In The Innovator’s Dilemma , he looked at why companies struggle with radical innovation in their markets.

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How do leaders make lasting change?

Lead on Purpose

I found two recent articles about Clayton Christensen that have increased my understanding about leadership: The first is published in the BYU Magazine’s Spring 2013 edition. (As According to Christensen, you keep nimble and respond to up-and-coming innovations at the bottom of the market. So how do leaders make lasting change?

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Morning Advantage: Disruptive Innovation Made Easy

Harvard Business Review

The numbers are enough to make the apple pop right out of the marketer's eye. Clearly that's not quite the target market for a new washer and dryer. for 2013, the fourth year in a row of relatively flat growth. PwC says four forces will continue to slow the rise in medical cost trend in 2013: 1.

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Morning Advantage: Disruptive Innovation Made Easy

Harvard Business Review

The numbers are enough to make the apple pop right out of the marketer's eye. Clearly that's not quite the target market for a new washer and dryer. for 2013, the fourth year in a row of relatively flat growth. PwC says four forces will continue to slow the rise in medical cost trend in 2013: 1.

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0511 | Larry Downes: Full Transcript

LDRLB

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. It’s a little more complicated than a five forces matrix or the Everett Rogers’ normal curve, diffusion and innovation curve. DAVID: Yeah.

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How Samsung Gets Innovations to Market

Harvard Business Review

Let’s say you’re working in a new market, far away from headquarters, and you need to get approval for an initiative that is somewhat outside the company’s current strategy. A case study we just published on Samsung’s European innovation team offers some helpful insights. What do you do? Negotiate the expectations up front.

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Can Chinese Smartphone Darling Xiaomi Compete in Western Markets?

Harvard Business Review

With a business model of at-cost hardware and software up-selling, it recently raised its 2013 sales targets from 15 million smartphones to 20 million, and is now gazing abroad. The “jobs-to-be-done” theory articulates the gap between how producers view and market a product and how customers actually use it. Xiaomi’s Challenge.