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3 Ways to Break Out of a Zero-Sum Game of Growth with Your Competitors

Leading Blog

How true disruptors use innovation, including digital, to grow the market and create new business models. Or else, you took on the hard work of growing the entire market. It can drive new business models, open up adjacent products and help you grow the whole market. You took away share from competition or they took it from you.

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HBR's Most Popular Blog Posts of 2011

Harvard Business Review

These 11 posts all hit a common nerve and went viral; it's no surprise that most of them contain advice about how to succeed and be happy at work. What Venture Capital Can Learn from Emerging Markets. by Vijay Govindarajan. A lesson in accurately valuing yourself -- from the stock market. by Rob Wheeler. by David Armano.

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31 Innovation Questions (and Answers) To Kick Off the New Year

Harvard Business Review

new product, distribution channel, marketing approach). An innovation that transforms a market or creates a new one through simplicity, convenience, affordability or accessibility. What is the best way to disrupt a market? Innovation is more than whiz-bang technology; consider different strategic intents (e.g.,