N2Growth Blog

OCTOBER 10, 2010

While there were clearly a few moments last week that I found instructionally valuable in terms of creating a game changer ( Nando Parrado ), there weren’t nearly enough of them. A lesson that I learned long ago is that you simply cannot experience sustainable improvement without transformation. It transformed my business and career.

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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. Time to disrupt myself. We typically define disruption as a low-end product or service that eventually upends an industry.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 27, 2017

Meanwhile, business was free to focus on generating growth, productivity, innovation, and, ultimately, societal wealth. This approach was credible as long as economic inequality was kept within reasonable bounds. Our research shows that many companies are increasingly geared toward the short term. These are the seven areas: 1.

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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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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 26, 2013

Ballmer, whose skills were in many ways complementary to Gates'', took the helm of an already massive organization as it entered an era of relentless disruptive innovation by competitors. Ballmer is being damned or defended wholly on the string of innovative (or not) products released on his watch. Well, guess what: it does.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 12, 2011

In terms of speed of adoption, only Apple's iPad has rivaled the Kinect. Aside from some tough comments on my blog, the long-term repercussions were low. A prescient call provides career rocket fuel, while the wrong one can be career limiting. Life is tougher for the strategist. The non-user. The opiner.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 27, 2012

This is the essence of what we call "disruptive innovation." As long as I have to pay 70 bucks a month for high speed internet, is the additional cost of cable really that much? In the short term, it might appear that everything is stable in Hollywood. The key is to remember that no industry is invulnerable to disruption.

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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.

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