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The Secrets to Clay Christensen's Success

Harvard Business Review

This week marks the release of Clayton Christensen's highly-anticipated book, How Will You Measure Your Life (with co-authors James Allworth and Karen Dillon). The book expands on Christensen's McKinsey-award-winning HBR article , drawing life lessons from the models that form the basis of his business-oriented writing. Persistence.

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The Energy Efficiency of Trust & Vulnerability

Mills Scofield

DMS : At BIF, you performed before an audience of over 400 people with two musicians you’d barely met before. And that’s in the eye of the customer/audience. As usually happens, a beautiful friendship and collaboration ensued. Our conversations are like jazz.live, interactive, impromptu. Eavesdrop on one here.

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Why the X Games Won’t Dethrone the Olympics

Harvard Business Review

A “ new model for how winter sports are done” that “feeds an audience hunger for life-treating daredevilry” and drives “ high market penetration and. Clayton Christensen always said he regretted describing the phenomena he observed in the hard disk drive industry and summarized in The Innovator’s Dilemma with the word disruptive.

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Business Lessons from the Titanic (in 3D)

Harvard Business Review

With special glasses, audience-goers are now able to see the ship crash into the iceberg even more vividly than before. Clay Christensen's work on disruptive innovation shows the power of David against Goliath, the mammal over the dinosaur, the startup over the incumbent. This month the blockbuster movie Titanic was re-released in 3D.

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Learning on Speed

Harvard Business Review

She is speaking to an audience, but a YouTube audience is not a classroom. The problem, as Clay Christensen has recently emphasized, is that students rarely learn at the same rate, let alone in the same way. So it is more personal but, more importantly, it is the sort of thing that is easy to pause, rewind, and review.

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Baloney, or the Power of a Common Language

Harvard Business Review

A "touchdown" refers to the end of a mundane flight not some dramatic event, unless the audience contains American football or rugby fans. Say "hit a home run" and people in India might look at you blankly ("sticky wicket" works well, however). Here's a simple test. I am willing to bet that you'll get a range of different answers.

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Don't Let Predictability Become the Enemy of Innovation

Harvard Business Review

Anticipating and enabling " technological surprise " has become even more challenging, DARPA director Arati Prabhakar recently told an MIT audience, because more people in more places have more access to more technology that ever before. Its ostensible mission: " to prevent technological surprise to the U.S. Surprises can come from anywhere.