CEO Competitive Advantage Disruptive Innovation Leadership 
Strategy Driven
JUNE 29, 2016
How do organizations achieve longevity, the kind of longevity that survives long past the founder or any particular leader or leadership team? On reflection, though, I find that the evidence does not support competitive advantage as a path to longevity.
N2Growth Blog
OCTOBER 10, 2010
I listened to esteemed business school professors, two Nobel laureates, bestselling authors, and some of the world’s most successful CEOs. Best, Leadership Freak, Dan Rockell pastortom2022 Hello Mike, another great post and this one, like others you write, makes us think. It only makes your current game better.
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Harvard Business Review
DECEMBER 19, 2016
One of the challenges of being a CEO is that you rarely are asked to choose between a wrong or right answer. CEOs should actively manage five specific tensions in today’s complex global business environment: Disruptive innovation versus leveraging the company’s core strengths. The 21st-Century CEO.
N2Growth Blog
JANUARY 13, 2011
An idea is not synonymous with a competitive advantage, an idea is not necessarily a sign of creativity, an idea does not constitute innovation, and as much as some people wish it was so, an idea is certainly not a business. Champion : Senior leadership must champion any new idea being adopted.
Harvard Business Review
AUGUST 26, 2013
The business media lit up over the weekend with the news that Steve Ballmer, the college friend who worked alongside Bill Gates to build Microsoft and was heir to the CEO job, will step down within a year. The debate has focused almost entirely on the leadership of innovation. Well, guess what: it does.
Harvard Business Review
DECEMBER 13, 2011
Escaping that rut and rethinking who gets a seat at the table just might be the most urgent leadership imperative of our day. Jim Whitehurst got a short course in doing just that when he arrived as CEO of the rough-and tumble Red Hat from his post as COO of the rather more buttoned-up Delta Airlines four years ago.
Harvard Business Review
MAY 10, 2013
The next few product launches were not nearly as successful and Ed Zander , a CEO who came in during the successful period, was unable to come up with any more hits. As a company matures and enters a period of exploiting a competitive advantage, it makes sense for the firm to be publicly traded if it requires the capital.
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