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Lead from the Future

Leading Blog

Manage initiatives with an explore, envision, and discover process so senior teams and innovation teams can learn their way to success together. The most successful leaders will be those who can do both as needed. The leadership framework shown below highlights the mindsets for both present-forward and future-back leadership.

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Disruptive Business Models | N2Growth Blog

N2Growth Blog

The most successful companies incorporate disruptive thinking into all of their business and management practices to gain distinctive competitive value propositions. Does your organization focus more on process than success? Has anyone on your executive team attended a conference on strategy, innovation or disruption in the last year?

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Life Strategy and Executive Coaching

Tony Mayo

Christensen titled, “ How Will You Measure Your Life? &# Along with plenty of great advice for new graduates he shared some keen insights on executive coaching. File Backup and Sharing by SugarSync Free Conference Calls Google Alerts LinkedIn Mail2Web Exchange Server Online Appointment Scheduling by Tungle.Me

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The Persistence of the Innovator's Dilemma

Harvard Business Review

Of course, that young HBS professor was Innosight co-founder Clayton Christensen. Academic journals have dissected the disruptive innovation theory and hundreds of thousands of students around the world have seen Christensen's famous model. That's not to say that there haven't been success stories.

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The Real Secret to Thriving Amid Disruptive Innovation

Harvard Business Review

I'm sitting at DLD , a new-media conference hosted by an old media company (German magazine publisher Burda) in Munich. Breyer stands out — both in the room and the Twitter echo chamber — by sounding like an Old Testament prophet (or at least like Clay Christensen ): "traditional media companies unless they radically change.

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What Airbnb Understands About Customers’ “Jobs to Be Done”

Harvard Business Review

On a recent business trip to London, I surprised the conference organizers by turning down the opportunity to stay at the posh hotel hosting the conference in favor of a rather modest Airbnb flat. But that doesn’t really explain its success. That’s the secret to its success. Andrew Nguyen/HBR STAFF.

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Investing in Start-Ups: For Love and Money

Harvard Business Review

According to Professor Clayton Christensen's jobs-to-be-done framework, whenever we buy something, we are hiring the product or service to do a job. At a recent industry conference, Bill Reichert , managing director of Garage Technology Ventures opined, "VCs do not invest with their brains.