Marshall Goldsmith

JUNE 28, 2017

Whitney Johnson – Thinkers 50 award-winning Management Thinker 2015-17, Disruptive Innovation expert, author Disrupt Yourself: Putting the Power of Disruptive Innovation to Work. General Thomas Kolditz – Founding Director Doerr Institute Rice University, formerly head of Leadership Development West Point.

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Executive Coaching Human Resources Magazine CEO 70

LDRLB

APRIL 27, 2020

There are a variety of purpose-driven organizations whose sense of meaning and mission are drawn directly from the product offered—they sell a disruptive innovation or sustainably sourced consumer product with zero environmental impact. It’s not about the product, it’s about the company culture.

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Skip Prichard

AUGUST 2, 2019

Technology change is speeding business up and providing an edge for disruptive innovators. As a consequence of accelerating change, the old model of managerial skill development and application is no longer effective. How did you develop it? 7 Steps to Problem Solving. 1: Define the problem. 2: Disaggregate. 5: Analyze.

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Disaggregation McKinsey Skills Gordon 79

N2Growth Blog

OCTOBER 10, 2010

If you cannot turn an idea into innovation, if you can’t put thought into practice, it’s not a game changer. Incremental improvements are good business, while disruptive innovation is great business – a game changer. Disruptive innovation is the game changer that shatters the status quo.

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LDRLB

APRIL 27, 2020

There are a variety of purpose-driven organizations whose sense of meaning and mission are drawn directly from the product offered—they sell a disruptive innovation or sustainably sourced consumer product with zero environmental impact. It’s not about the product, it’s about the company culture.

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Mission Statement Organization Company Business Model 78

N2Growth Blog

JANUARY 13, 2011

As a result of our conversation, I decided to dust-off an old post, give it a few updates, and pass along my thoughts, which can be best summarized as “ Ideas Don’t Equal Innovation. “ It is my hope to help dispel the myth that ideas are inherently good things.

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Blog Innovation Strategic Planning Brand 373

Marshall Goldsmith

FEBRUARY 8, 2018

Whitney Johnson – Author of the critically acclaimed: Disrupt Yourself. Co-founder of Rose Park Advisors—Disruptive Innovation Fund. A leading thinker on strategy and breakthrough innovation. 14th Administrator, United States Agency for International Development. University Leadership Development Professionals.

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LDRLB

MAY 26, 2014

You are also the author of a ton of different stuff around this idea of disruption, the most recent one being- I’m making sure I get this title right. The most recent being Big Bang Disruption: Strategy in the Age of Devastating Innovation. You call it this big bang disruption. DAVID: Yeah.

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Early Adopters Rogers Disruptive Innovation Innovation 60

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 31, 2014

One of the first, and most lasting, pieces of career advice I received came from Linda Bush, my first project manager when I was a wee pup working at McKinsey & Company. Research by Hal Gregersen and Jeffrey Dyer in fact shows that questioning is one of the behaviors that successful innovators share. It is the innovator’s job.

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Innovation Disruptive Innovation Learning-by-Doing Participative 11

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 28, 2016

During the last five years of my corporate management career, I had a great deal of leadership development. It’s hard to find precise spending data on the amounts invested in management training (for supervisors and middle managers) and leadership development (for senior executives). Leadership development is sexier.

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Training Development Management Budgeting 14

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 5, 2012

Most companies sabotage their own innovation processes without meaning to. Innovation is episodic. We've all seen this movie: A few people in the organization have a burning desire to foster more innovation, or a different kind of innovation, so they invent a new process. It's easy to ax innovation. What to do?

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 22, 2011

I had worked for over a decade to develop relationships with Latin American business leaders, several of whom were on Forbes' billionaire list. 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.

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Disruptive Innovation Christensen Metrics Innovation 16

Harvard Business Review

JULY 10, 2012

When only seven percent of all employees trust their leaders, can you blame Harvard's Barbara Kellerman for calling the modern practice of leadership development a failure? Management Tip Video: Applying Disruptive Innovation to Your Career Path (HBR.org). There is scant evidence. BONUS BITS: Crash Courses. Fast Company).

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Leadership Development Development Disruptive Innovation Leadership 10

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 8, 2014

Higher education, however, is in the midst of dramatic, disruptive change. It is, to use the language of innovation theorists and practitioners, being unbundled. But there are also entire sectors of the innovation economy that are ceasing to rely on traditional credentials and don’t even bother with the skeumorph of an adapted degree.

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Education Disruptive Innovation Software Engineering 13

Roundtable Talk

JUNE 22, 2010

Plan: Plans need to be continually reviewed to keep the team on track Productivity (Measures & Accountability): assigning tasks, measuring success and rewarding results are an oft overlooked element of successful team development.

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Tips Team Bottom-up Teamwork 34

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 27, 2012

The fact of the matter is that periodically, technologies or business model innovations allow start-ups to enter industries offering services that are generally cheaper and more accessible, but of far lower quality. This is the essence of what we call "disruptive innovation." The ecosystem will develop. Bundling good.

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Rogers Telecommunications Disruptive Innovation Innovation 15

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 3, 2012

According to Méndez-García, one of the best models for making sense of a non-linear world is the S-curve , the model we have used to understand the diffusion of disruptive innovations, and which he and I speculate can be used to understand personal disruption — the necessary pivots in our own career paths.

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Learning Curve Market Penetration Disruptive Innovation Kaplan 10

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 27, 2011

In the Economist review of our book, The Innovator's DNA , the reviewer wondered whether genius-level innovators such as Marc Benioff, Jeff Bezos, and Steve Jobs challenge the idea that working adults can really learn how to think differently and become innovators. Innovators excel at connecting the unconnected.

How To 16

How To Innovation Creativity Disruptive Innovation 16

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 27, 2017

In the developed world, we enjoy better medicines, connectivity, and mobility than most of us could have imagined even 20 years ago. Meanwhile, business was free to focus on generating growth, productivity, innovation, and, ultimately, societal wealth. The effects of technology on humans depends on how we choose to develop and use it.

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Globalization Supply Chain Human Capital Long-term 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 17, 2012

This is the second leg of the HBR/McKinsey M-Prize for Management Innovation and a call for inspiring stories, bold ideas, and instructive experiments that demonstrate what can happen when you scrap compliance, conformance and predictability for freedom, passion, and dynamism. Packaging up Management Innovation. Hack by Ricardo Semler.

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Bureaucracy McKinsey Compliance Innovation 14

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 14, 2011

Reflecting on the fact that Holly routinely plays with both our iPad and Kinect , I said to my wife, "I think the odds that Holly actually uses a laptop during her working career are pretty close to zero.". Innovation is the imperative of today's times.

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Competitive Advantage McKinsey Library Entrepreneur 13

Leading Blog

JANUARY 31, 2015

Why Culture and Leadership Matter for Disruptive Innovation by James daSilva via @SBLeaders. How to Develop a Lifelong Learning Habit by @dorothydalton. From @PaulJSohn How Does Emotional Intelligence Affect Your Career [Infographic]. Like us on Facebook for additional leadership and personal development ideas.

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Emotional Intelligence Disruptive Innovation Guidelines Learning-by-Doing 150

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 12, 2014

What follows is a short recap of some of the best bits from this year’s commencements, as related to business and career success. You’re witnessing creative destruction and disruptive innovation at work. The hardest thing I had to learn in my career is that I am not always right. I want you to be you.

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Career Planning CEO Entrepreneur 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 12, 2016

First impressions matter so much because they happen fast, and they are stubborn , says Whitney Johnson , the author of Disrupt Yourself: Putting the Power of Disruptive Innovation to Work. “The camaraderie develops naturally.” What the Experts Say. ” Follow up. ” He does this in a variety of ways.

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How To Bond Discount Case Study 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 3, 2013

But I''ve just finished work on a new book with Paul Nunes on the new age of disruptive innovation (based on our March 2013 HBR article, " Big Bang Disruption "). As for sudden, it did feel so to me. I haven''t actually seen Prof. Coase since I moved from Chicago ten years ago. So, yes, his death struck me as sudden.

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Cost Open-book Disruptive Innovation Conference 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 12, 2011

A prescient call provides career rocket fuel, while the wrong one can be career limiting. Wrong predictions based on well-reasoned (at the time) assumptions are useful because they help strategists develop their own instincts for assessing future technologies. Life is tougher for the strategist.

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Press Release Strategy Long-term Video 12

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 11, 2013

Four years ago, Craig Hatkoff, co-founder of the Tribeca Film Festival, approached me about a brainstorm: an event recognizing and celebrating breakthrough innovators. 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.

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Innovation Christensen Decisionmaking CTO 11

Harvard Business Review

MAY 20, 2013

In a world of layoffs, outsourcing, and industry disruption, the only "career insurance" you can get is through figuring out the answer to one particular question: how can you make yourself truly valuable professionally? Those paths were developed by people who rely on process and rules to tame the chaos that is life.

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Advice Learning-by-Doing Career Open-book 12

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 ). Disrupting How We Work. Many of you know of Clay Christensen's iconic work the Innovators Dilemma. How does this lead to disruption? Everything.

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Christensen Business Model Decentralization Innovation 16

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 10, 2011

That was certainly true for Jane Harper, who spent a nearly 30-year career at IBM asking the kinds of questions most people don't want to touch. Polly LaBarre is editorial director of the Management Innovation Exchange. Asking good questions trades control for contribution.

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Organization Open-book Bureaucracy CEO 15

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 13, 2013

Taylor, chair of Columbia University's Department of Religion and author of a book critical of tenure , estimates that a college ties up between $10 million and $12 million of its endowment to support a single tenured professor for a 35-year career. And the classes can be more easily fine-tuned because of the online feedback they generate.

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Engineering Education Class Automotive 10

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 25, 2015

But the conditions seemed to be ripe for one to develop. Like Silicon Valley, Singapore has strong research institutions and limited enforcement of noncompete clauses, a condition that academics now suggest can be a major driver of innovation. “Yes, but Israelis and Americans are innovative by nature.

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Entrepreneur Incubator Venture Capitalist Innovation 8

Coaching Tip

JANUARY 8, 2015

Your brightest ambitions, breakthrough ideas, compelling goals, disruptive innovations, fulfilling relationships, elevating possibilities--even your best-laid, most ingenious plans--utterly depend on GRIT. Develop Leadership Skills: A Mobile Reference Guide . GRIT Ignites. GRIT Undergirds. Discovering Your Signature Talents.

Leadership 70

Leadership Disruptive Innovation Strategic Planning Skills 70

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 17, 2012

Consider the following examples: The #1 Management Thinker on the Thinkers 50 list is Clay Christensen , Harvard Business School professor and author of The Innovator's Dilemma , which introduced the idea of disruptive innovation. Fourth, a focus on developing leaders. I am not alone.

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