LDRLB

DECEMBER 15, 2015

She cofounded Rose Park Advisors, a boutique investment firm, with Clayton Christensen, and was an Institutional Investor-ranked analyst for eight consecutive years, including at Merrill Lynch. In this interview, we describe how to upend your career and move into the leadership role you’ve always wanted.

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Joseph Lalonde

JANUARY 3, 2015

Clayton Christensen, a Harvard Professor says that only few people tend to hurt others and be dishonest in the initial stages of their career. Throughout his professional career Ali has been associated with globally recognized consulting firms, including Pricewaterhousecoopers & Mercer consulting.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 24, 2016

But this confidence served as a platform that allowed Andy to learn important things from every person — even Clayton Christensen. In his long career at Intel and at Stanford Business School, he passed along his deep wisdom with uncommon generosity, touching generations of managers and leaders. He was confident in his abilities.

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N2Growth Blog

JUNE 14, 2010

Disruptive Innovation (per the Christensen model) generally takes place in an industry dominated by an oligopoly and having an unserved segment ( towards the lower end in terms of profit margins and product capability) which attains visibility as a result of technological expansion in what is most of the time, a non-related field.

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Mills Scofield

APRIL 15, 2012

Long before it became fashionable, Saul was leveraging the power of business models in his career. ” Clayton Christensen , an advisor to BIF, taught us that customers are hiring companies to “do a job” for them. If you want your organization to survive and thrive well into the 21 st Century, read this book.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 30, 2011

In the course of writing Passion & Purpose , I was fortunate enough to meet and interview hundreds of young leaders, many of them "rockstar" twenty-somethings who command high six-figure salaries, are in stable relationships, and have all the career options in the world. Gone are the days where working for LargeCo meant a career for life.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 19, 2012

After studying Hollywood actors for three years, MIT Professor Ezra Zuckerman found that actors who typecast themselves (PDF) early in their careers tend to earn more money, have longer lifespans, and enjoy more fame compared to generalist actors. Over the long term, that is a career strategy with diminishing returns.

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Deming Institute

JANUARY 19, 2017

In Clayton Christensen’s new book, Competing Against Luck , the authors delve into the importance of gaining a deep understanding of what your customers desire. Some are little (pass the time while waiting in line); some are big (find a more fulfilling career). We all have many jobs to be done in our lives.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 5, 2012

It's not news to anyone who's looked for a job recently that the days of a monolithic career spent at one company or in one well-defined field are over. Many of us have had to — willingly or out of necessity — rethink our career paths. At six years old, I knew what I wanted to be: a designer. I started out designing cars.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 28, 2012

Whitney Johnson , president and cofounder of Rose Park Advisors, applies Harvard Business School professor Clayton Christensen's concept of disruptive innovation to a creative career path.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 5, 2012

When Clay Christensen, his son Matt, and I first launched Rose Park Advisors, we considered bringing on investors at the GP (general partner) level. Even in the middle of my career, it felt like a punch to the solar plexus. Love your returns. Of course, no one deserves to go unnoticed.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 4, 2015

Everyone aspires to have purpose or meaning in their career but how do you actually do that? Here are principles you can follow to find a career — and a specific job —­ you don’t just enjoy, but love. Christensen. What the Experts Say. ” But rarely are those the things that translate to satisfaction.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 25, 2014

The financial risk of a career in entrepreneurship is the chance of spending 20 years in startups with nothing to show for it — neither money nor an impact on the world. In financial terms, focuses expertise is a call option on other careers, and it increases your chance of startup success, to boot. Career planning Entrepreneurship'

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First Friday Book Synopsis

JULY 21, 2012

Johnson dared to dream when she began her Wall Street career as a secretary. Whitney is the president and co-founder of Clayton Christensen’s investment firm, Rose Park Advisors, a regular contributor to Harvard Business Review and [.].

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 22, 2011

Notwithstanding the considerable career and financial (I am the primary breadwinner) risks involved, it was time to leave my comfortable perch and become an entrepreneur. Six years into my mid-career move, here are some lessons learned from my personal disruptive trajectory: If it feels scary and lonely, you're probably on the right track.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 14, 2011

Or consider the influence of Clayton Christensen, who tops the new ranking. Christensen's influence on the business world has been profound. In recent years, for instance, Christensen has applied his ideas to healthcare and education — showing how enlightened management thinking can tackle the big issues facing society.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 26, 2012

My colleague, Harvard Professor Clayton Christensen, addressed this topic in his HBR article, How Will You Measure Your Life? Clay observed that few people, if any, intend at the outset of their career to behave dishonestly and hurt others. But then, Christensen says, they started making exceptions to the rules "just this once.".

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 7, 2012

For example, an executive in his mid-thirties and in a career transition began by asking "How can I make a bucket of money?" Several years ago Clayton Christensen (author of The Innovator's Dilemma ) and colleagues at Innosight coined the phrase "jobs-to-be-done" as part of a methodology they use to build new billion dollar businesses.

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LDRLB

MAY 26, 2014

In that sense, the Christensen solution has become counterproductive; in fact, it’s become dangerous. Because when these innovations show up, they are better and cheaper right from the start. If you’ve been waiting for them to enter the market and start to establish their customers before you do anything, you’ve now waited too long.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 8, 2017

One of the most exciting and — sometimes anxiety-producing transitions in a career — comes when you move from being an individual contributor to becoming a manager. Becoming a new manager is an important leadership passage in your career.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 7, 2015

But they worry about “flexibility stigma”—the likelihood that they’ll be labeled less than fully committed to work if they avail themselves of arrangements like flex time and paternity leave — and as a result suffer negative job and career consequences. For the U.S. This is the flexibility stigma at work.)

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Chart Your Course

JUNE 30, 2016

Studies show that a person’s emotional intelligence (the ability to manage one’s own emotions and the emotions of others) is not only more important than their IQ, but the single most important variable in career and life success. Christensen. This is the book that launched the idea of EQ into the public domain.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 19, 2013

I never intended to disrupt my career over and again, eventually becoming a free agent. When my husband was on the hunt for an academic job after completing his PhD, his choices were Boston and San Antonio, both of which had the potential to cut my Wall Street career short. Certainly that has been the case for me.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 25, 2011

An engineer, designer, serial entrepreneur, investor, and researcher, he has developed 1,000+ products/services and has collaborated with Clay Christensen at HBS for more than 15 years. Looking at it from a " jobs-to-be-done " perspective, a prospective mentee is usually trying to get the functional job done of advancing his career.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 26, 2013

It''s a point that Clay Christensen put his own twist on with The Innovator''s Dilemma : Even when leaders know intellectually that groundbreaking innovation is imperative, they find themselves investing in incremental refinements to please their most sophisticated customers, and leave themselves wide open to disruption by upstarts.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 19, 2013

Questions alone might be clever, but as Jeff Dyer, Clayton Christensen, and I found in our research behind The Innovator''s DNA , they rarely produce positive impacts. What you discover in this questioning quest might not only surprise you, but may also unearth an entirely new direction for your team, organization, or career.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 11, 2015

” That would neither be in line with our primary objectives, nor fit our consultants’ career expectations. Christensen, Dina Wang, and Derek van Bever predicted the disruption of elite consulting firms. If we accepted all such requests, we would end up with 30 “chiefs of staff” or “operations leads.”

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N2Growth Blog

JANUARY 13, 2011

This may be the first time in my career that I've been accused of taking a standard management approach.:) Moore and Christensen tell us what to do, but their prescription is rarely followed. If someone at the C-suite level is against the new idea, it will likely die on the cutting-room floor. via n2growth.com [.]

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 1, 2017

To borrow Clayton Christensen’s phrase, our hotel laundry’s “job to be done” is not cleaning dirty clothes; it is preserving and enhancing our guests’ sense of participation in the world of fashion. Fashion and clothing were central to the guest experience — much more so than we had realized.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 15, 2011

I had worked on a variety of volunteer projects with Clayton Christensen over several years, which led to an overlap of exchanges, including having several common acquaintances. Yet, if we distill the three reasons into one, we network because we need to get something done, now or in the future, and we can't do it alone.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 11, 2016

Renowned management thinker Clay Christensen recommends spending time formulating the right questions. .” It’s critical that your colleagues view you as someone who is resourceful and independent enough to bring something new to the table instead of just stopping every time there is a bump in the road.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 16, 2012

Harvard Business School professor Clayton Christensen, during his battle with cancer, helped answer his own ethical questions by looking inward. In the end, maybe it's more about finding the right metric, one we can feel good about as we try to define our legacy to the world and ourselves.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 11, 2012

Invariably, many people will think some of the choices are poor or that the list is incomplete, but I hope it can serve as a start for young business leaders looking for literature to help them chart their careers. Christensen, The Innovator's Dilemma: When New Technologies Cause Great Firms to Fail.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 11, 2012

Invariably, many people will think some of the choices are poor or that the list is incomplete, but I hope it can serve as a start for young business leaders looking for literature to help them chart their careers. Christensen, The Innovator's Dilemma: When New Technologies Cause Great Firms to Fail.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 16, 2014

As Harvard Business School professor Clay Christensen described in his mega-bestseller How Will You Measure Your Life? (with Karen Dillon and James Allworth), the ROI of work is immediately apparent. For many top performers, the idea of dialing back on work is also disturbing because they fear it will torpedo their career.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 16, 2012

Communities of practice, where they share a common career or field of business, will extend your offer because it extends their expertise (like McAfee mavens ). Many of you know of Clay Christensen's iconic work the Innovators Dilemma. Everything. Disrupting How We Work. In particular some 80% of their business resources are fluid.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 11, 2013

When I suggested to Clayton Christensen that we partner with Hatkoff to create the Tribeca Disruptive Innovation Awards , Clay’s response was : I trust you Whitney. Four years ago, Craig Hatkoff, co-founder of the Tribeca Film Festival, approached me about a brainstorm: an event recognizing and celebrating breakthrough innovators.

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