Harvard Business Review

APRIL 5, 2018

Do you want to shake up your career? In this episode of HBR’s advice podcast, Dear HBR: , Dan and Alison answer your questions with the help of Whitney Johnson , the author of Disrupt Yourself: Putting the Power of Disruptive Innovation to Work. Download this podcast. Don’t wait for a catalyst. ”

Career 8

Career Disruptive Innovation Long-term Agility 8

Eric Jacobson

OCTOBER 13, 2020

Breakthrough ideas and disruptive innovation stem from a deep understanding of the customer. When it comes to innovation, culture is more important than strategy. By embedding innovation in your organizational culture, you can set yourself up for future wins.

How To 65

How To Handbook Tactics Open-book 65

Eric Jacobson

MARCH 5, 2020

Breakthrough ideas and disruptive innovation stem from a deep understanding of the customer. When it comes to innovation, culture is more important than strategy. By embedding innovation in your organizational culture, you can set yourself up for future wins.

Handbook 65

Handbook Innovation Tactics Open-book 65

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. Clark Callahan – Managing Director, Custom Programs, Harvard Business School Executive Education.

Executive Coaching 70

Executive Coaching Human Resources Magazine CEO 70

Skip Prichard

AUGUST 2, 2019

Technology change is speeding business up and providing an edge for disruptive innovators. It used to be that you could learn the core skills for a career in college and graduate school – think management, accounting, law – and then apply it over forty years.

Disaggregation 79

Disaggregation McKinsey Skills Gordon 79

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 117

N2Growth Blog

OCTOBER 10, 2010

Sure, great leaders never lose sight of their core business, they pay attention to managing risk, etc., 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.

Blog 315

Blog Media Open-book Learning-by-Doing 315

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

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 28, 2016

During the last five years of my corporate management career, I had a great deal of leadership development. Along with many other executives, I attended talks by noted management authors, I went to (often lengthy) team-building exercises, and I participated in discussions on different leadership styles. I avoided conflict.

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Training Development Management Budgeting 14

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 14, 2011

Who is the most influential living management thinker? That is the question that the Thinkers50, the biennial global ranking of management thinkers , seeks to answer. But, celebrating the very best new thinking in management matters for three reasons. Think of Charles Darwin, the ultimate disruptive innovator.

Blue Ocean Strategy 15

Blue Ocean Strategy Management Christensen Balanced Scorecard 15

Marshall Goldsmith

FEBRUARY 8, 2018

Thinkers50 – World’s Most Influential Management Thinkers. Called ‘The Academy Awards of Leadership’ by the Economist, Thinkers50 is the world’s most reliable resource for identifying, ranking and sharing the leading management ideas of our age. Whitney Johnson – Author of the critically acclaimed: Disrupt Yourself.

Executive Coaching 70

Executive Coaching CEO Magazine Banking 70

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.

Career 8

Career Christensen Disruptive Innovation Travel 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 5, 2012

During one of these conversations, a prospective investor turned to Clay, and said (paraphrasing), "Love disruptive innovation theory. Even in the middle of my career, it felt like a punch to the solar plexus. Love your returns. need someone on the team who's 40-45, a little grey hair, with financial services experience.".

Career 15

Career Christensen Disruptive Innovation Learning-by-Doing 15

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. I felt like those rules as I was reading what sort of makes these big bang disruptive innovations succeed, those rules I think are still in place.

Early Adopters 60

Early Adopters Rogers Disruptive Innovation Innovation 60

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.

Disruptive Innovation 17

Disruptive Innovation Christensen Metrics Innovation 17

Chart Your Course

JUNE 30, 2016

Every HR, OD professional, and management consultant should at the very least be aware of their existence, if not well-versed in their ideas and theories. In one of the defining management studies carried out in the 90s, Collins and his team complied a list of 1,435 companies in search of those special few that could truly be called “great.”

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Human Resources Talent Management Resources Ulrich 100

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 8, 2014

Evaluative information like work samples, personal representations, peer and manager reviews, shared content, and scores and badges are creating new signals of aptitude and different types of credentials. To Optimize Talent Management, Question Everything. Career planning Disruptive innovation Education'

Education 14

Education Disruptive Innovation Software Engineering 14

Roundtable Talk

JUNE 22, 2010

The book shared that winners do ALL 4 of the following activities: Strategy - Team based game plans Execution - Top quartile performance Culture - High performance team Flat Structure – Minimize bureaucracy And that they do ANY 2 of 4 following activities: Talent - Build & grow talented employees Innovation - Disruptive, innovative (..)

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Tips Team Bottom-up Teamwork 34

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.

Innovation 12

Innovation Disruptive Innovation Learning-by-Doing Participative 12

N2Growth Blog

JANUARY 13, 2011

Aside from being costly, a flawed execution can cast doubt on management credibility, have a negative impact on morale, taint the brand, adversely affect external relationships, and cause a variety of other problems for your business. All initiatives surrounding new ideas should include detailed risk management provisions.

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Blog Innovation Strategic Planning Brand 373

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 5, 2012

The rock: the new imperative for innovation that has over taken the corporation in the last few years. Senior managers frown on anything that won't pan out. In a phrase: innovation is getting more urgent but risk is getting riskier. But unless there is some way of protecting people's careers, that's all it is: brave talk.

Innovation 13

Innovation Brainstorming Disruptive Innovation Collins 13

Harvard Business Review

JULY 10, 2012

Management Tip Video: Applying Disruptive Innovation to Your Career Path (HBR.org). BONUS BITS: Crash Courses. 10 Minutes on Global Talent Mobility (PwC). 30 Second MBA: What if You Lost the Competition for a Senior Job? Fast Company).

Leadership Development 11

Leadership Development Development Disruptive Innovation Leadership 11

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 5, 2012

First, remember that innovation, like any other important organizational process, can be managed. Second, recognize that on-again, off-again innovation is worse than nothing. It sends the signal that these are not the projects that people should bet their careers on. Build it into good people's career paths.

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Process Innovation Diversity Budgeting 16

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 30, 2011

That McDonald's or Pret a Manger is less open to disruptive innovation than El Bulli? If you believe any, or all, of those things, then you're not a business sophisticate, you're an innovation snob. Be warned: uppity attitudes undermine companies and careers. Design innovation mattered more than technical innovation.

Innovation 15

Innovation Disruptive Innovation Technology Fashion 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.

Learning Curve 10

Learning Curve Market Penetration Disruptive Innovation Kaplan 10

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 27, 2017

Take emerging blockchain technology applications , which could have vast potential in financial services (currency, payment solutions, digital assets), insurance (contract and identity management), entertainment (performance rights management), and many other sectors. The New Science of Human Capital.

Globalization 8

Globalization Supply Chain Human Capital Long-term 8

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. He managed to hold the stock price on a pretty even keel, but no better than that. Well, guess what: it does.

Core Competence 10

Core Competence Innovation Christensen Disruptive Innovation 10

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 27, 2011

His original business, GetAGreatBoss.com , lets great managers showcase their skills to attract talent and boost their own careers by conducting a 360 review of the manager by his or her staff, and if the results are favorable, he links the results to job ads that the boss is trying to fill, making these job ads far more appealing.

How To 16

How To Innovation Creativity Disruptive Innovation 16

Leading Blog

JANUARY 31, 2015

Why Culture and Leadership Matter for Disruptive Innovation by James daSilva via @SBLeaders. From @PaulJSohn How Does Emotional Intelligence Affect Your Career [Infographic]. Why We Need a Management Shift by @VlatkaHlupic. From @JohnBaldoni Presence : Your Key to Stronger And Bolder Leadership. by Emily Young.

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Emotional Intelligence Disruptive Innovation Guidelines Learning-by-Doing 150

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. If, for instance, colleagues say you are a great people manager, seek out metrics to support that idea. What the Experts Say.

How To 8

How To Bond Discount Case Study 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. Managing without managers.

Bureaucracy 14

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.". We received training on how to place acetates on overhead projectors during presentations.

Competitive Advantage 13

Competitive Advantage McKinsey Library Entrepreneur 13

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? But those paths, the ones you learned about in your career offices aren''t the only ones afforded to you.

Advice 12

Advice Learning-by-Doing Career Open-book 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.

Innovation 11

Innovation Christensen Decisionmaking CTO 11

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 6, 2012

The unsolvable problem that has become the "white whale" of my career's own captain story was posed by Nick Donofrio, IBM's senior vice president of technology (and official protector of innovators) a year before I wrote "Breaking Out." HBR's 90th Anniversary: Why Management Matters. Disruptive Innovation Comes to Health Care.

Game Theory 8

Game Theory Open-book Innovation Disruptive Innovation 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 20, 2011

Household debt averaged 75% of disposal personal income between 1975 and 2000, according to Stephen Roach, senior executive at Morgan Stanley and lecturer at Yale's School of Management. And most CEOs who talked about using Design Thinking to remake their companies' culture appeared to choose globalization over innovation.

Innovation 13

Innovation Supply Chain Offshoring Policies 13

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 25, 2015

Counsel on Call does e-discovery, contract review and abstraction, and other managed services , Raymond Law Group specializes in “price-sensitive commodity (litigation) work”). For a fixed fee, The General Counsel, Ltd will handle all of a company’s employment law matters.

Real Estate 8

Real Estate Attrition Entrepreneur Business Model 8