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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

Few things are more critical to your efforts in increasing your revenue growth and corporate sustainability than understanding the value of disruptive innovation. The most successful companies incorporate disruptive thinking into all of their business and management practices to gain distinctive competitive value propositions.

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7 Steps to Problem Solving

Skip Prichard

Complex problem solving is the core skill for 21st century teams. Their new book is BULLETPROOF PROBLEM SOLVING: The One Skill That Changes Everything. New Skills Required. Would you share a little about the evolution of managerial skills and what skills are needed in the current era? Bulletproof Problem Solving.

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Game Changers | N2Growth Blog

N2Growth Blog

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. It transformed my business and career. Many a skilled leader has fallen prey to this circumstance.

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Lessons from a Career, Interrupted

Harvard Business Review

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.

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Disrupt Yourself

Harvard Business Review

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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The Degree Is Doomed

Harvard Business Review

To a prospective student (or parent), the value lies in assuming these signals will be accepted in employment markets and other times of social evaluation. Thus, a degree from a top university has been seen to contain crucial information about a person’s skills, networks, and work habits. Headhunters Reveal What Candidates Want.