Marshall Goldsmith

FEBRUARY 8, 2018

Authority on new technology and communication. 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.

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LDRLB

MAY 26, 2014

Paul Nunes and I have known each other for many years, and we’ve both been writing about the subject of disruptive innovation from different vantage points and different angles. Our observation was that that’s what he called the innovator’s dilemma; now it’s the innovator’s disaster. LARRY: Sure.

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N2Growth Blog

OCTOBER 10, 2010

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. If I read your definition correctly, you are limiting game-changers to positive developments or innovations.

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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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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 8, 2014

Education-technology companies EduClipper and Pathbrite , and also general-interest platforms such as Tumblr and WordPress, are used to show online portfolios. 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

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. And there is an increasing fear that technology could make matters worse by displacing jobs on a large scale. The same goes for technology.

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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. Identifying the Threat of Disruption. One of the central tenets of disruptive innovation is that companies innovate faster than people’s needs change.

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N2Growth Blog

JANUARY 13, 2011

In order for your enterprise to turn an idea into a monetizing and/or value creating event you should develop a strategic plan that attempts to measure the idea against the following 15 elements: 1. It should be developed as a solution to a problem or to exploit an opportunity. via n2growth.com [.]

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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.

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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

OCTOBER 12, 2011

A prescient call provides career rocket fuel, while the wrong one can be career limiting. Back in 2005 I wrote a piece [ PDF ] looking at a new video recorder introduced by Pure Digital Technologies, the Flip. Aside from some tough comments on my blog, the long-term repercussions were low. Life is tougher for the strategist.

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Press Release Strategy Long-term Video 12

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 14, 2011

Why don't we get her a toy that encourages that interest so she'll be more familiar with the technology as she gets older?". 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.".

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Competitive Advantage McKinsey Library Entrepreneur 13

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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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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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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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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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. For example, a 2011 UCLA study of 6,768 U.S. For example, a 2011 UCLA study of 6,768 U.S.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 10, 2011

billion global IT services firm, HCL Technologies, puts it: "The CEO should be the Chief Question Asker, not the final provider of answers." 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. As Vineet Nayar, CEO of the $3.5

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Organization Open-book Bureaucracy CEO 15

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. You’ll never find any interesting deals there.” ” Sure, I would respond.

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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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