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Disrupt Yourself: Play To Your Distinctive Strengths

Lead Change Blog

.): The act of using a practice employed by companies — wherein a product deemed inferior by the market leader (Amazon v. Yellow Cab) eventually upends the industry — and applying it to yourself and your career. Borders, Uber v. If you want to walk through the doors of opportunity, play to your distinctive strengths.

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Disrupt Yourself

Lead Change Blog

Consider this simple yet powerful idea: disruptive companies and ideas upend markets by doing something truly different—they see a need, an empty space waiting to be filled, and they dare to create something for which a market may not yet exist. Perhaps innovative thinking among your management team has stalled.

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Disruptive Business Models | N2Growth Blog

N2Growth Blog

So, in today’s post I’ll examine the power of disruption as a key business driver… Disruptive business models focus on creating, disintermediating, refining, reengineering or optimizing a product/service, role/function/practice, category, market, sector, or industry. When was the last time you entered a new market?

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Just because you can make an omelet, doesn’t mean you’re a restaurateur!

Mills Scofield

Long before it became fashionable, Saul was leveraging the power of business models in his career. That’s why we see so many good ideas either not make it to market or not for long. ” Clayton Christensen , an advisor to BIF, taught us that customers are hiring companies to “do a job” for them.

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Ideas Don't Equal Innovation | N2Growth Blog

N2Growth Blog

This may be the first time in my career that I've been accused of taking a standard management approach.:) Disruptive innovation is rarely raw genius that bubbles-up, but rather the culmination of several things: a sound idea, vetted through great process, refined by innovative application and brought to market by outstanding leadership.

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Jobs to be Done

Deming Institute

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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Being Invisible Can Help Your Career

Harvard Business Review

When Clay Christensen, his son Matt, and I first launched Rose Park Advisors, we considered bringing on investors at the GP (general partner) level. need someone on the team who's 40-45, a little grey hair, with financial services experience.". My abilities were market-tested, validated by bulge bracket firms. Love your returns.

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