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.

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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

JANUARY 8, 2014

Thus, a degree from a top university has been seen to contain crucial information about a person’s skills, networks, and work habits. Higher education, however, is in the midst of dramatic, disruptive change. It is, to use the language of innovation theorists and practitioners, being unbundled.

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Education Disruptive Innovation Software Engineering 13

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 28, 2016

During the last five years of my corporate management career, I had a great deal of leadership development. Some surveys seem to lump together technical skills training and classic management training. But both skill levels are necessary. At the latter stages of their careers, most senior managers are pretty set in their ways.

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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. Which customers can’t participate in a market because they lack skills, wealth, or convenient access to existing solutions? Disruptive innovation Strategy'

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 27, 2017

An increase in the dynamism and diversity of business environments means that people must adapt their skills more quickly. Finding effective and affordable ways to help people acquire transferable skills during their careers, not just before they start out, is a large social challenge. Related Video.

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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.

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

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 19, 2013

Step 3: As disruptive innovators, from Albert Einstein to Jack Dorsey, put it, "Question everything!" Catalytic Questioning ensures this essential leadership skill improves over time to unlock even better, more creative solutions. Innovation' It makes the quest much more intriguing.

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Brainstorming Christensen Disruptive Innovation Innovation 8

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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Chart Your Course

JUNE 30, 2016

Studies show that a person’s emotional intelligence (the ability to manage one’s own emotions and the emotions of others) is not only more important than their IQ, but the single most important variable in career and life success. This is the book that launched the idea of EQ into the public domain. by Peter Senge.

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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. ” Lane also tried to engage his interviewers by asking them about their career paths and histories at the company.

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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.

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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.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 20, 2011

As for global corporations themselves, very few invested in upgrading their manufacturing plants and their employee skills in the way that German corporations have done through the 21st century. The economic value of much innovation accrued to China instead. to borrow trillions of dollars from China and other governments.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 25, 2015

Like Israel, Singapore is small, with limited natural resources, which means economic growth requires innovative macroeconomic approaches. Both Singapore and Israel have liberal immigration policies for skilled workers. “Yes, but Israelis and Americans are innovative by nature.

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Coaching Tip

JANUARY 8, 2015

Ninety-eight percent of the 10,000 employers surveyed demand it over anything else--including skills and qualifications--in the people they seek to hire, retain, invest in, and promote. Develop Leadership Skills: A Mobile Reference Guide . Books Career Leadership Memes Skills Success Work life Evolves Grit nitty-gritty Paul G.

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