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Create Early Warning Systems to Detect Competitive Threats

Harvard Business Review

The work of two of the most important scholars in the field, Clayton Christensen and Richard N. One of the key tipping points in a market occurs when a company, in Christensen's language, overshoots a given market tier by providing them performance that they can't use. Foster , suggests considering five questions: 1.

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If You Want to Lead, Read These 10 Books

Harvard Business Review

To become a complete man or woman, each must develop both sides of the psyche. The Innovator's Dilemma by Clayton Christensen (which is also on John Coleman's list) builds on the notion of a growth mindset more specifically within a business context. With all this learning by doing, setbacks will be inevitable.

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The Making of an Innovation Master

Harvard Business Review

For example, I'm sure that most innovation practitioners wouldn't put baseball researcher Bill James on their list, but his mission to find patterns, develop theories, and overturn orthodoxy has greatly influenced my own thinking. He is one of the most thoughtful students of disruptive innovation you'll meet.

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Disruptive Trends to Watch in 2013

Harvard Business Review

A generation ago, incumbents that struggled to respond to disruptive innovations had an excuse. Harvard Professor and Innosight cofounder Clayton Christensen alerted the world to the pattern of disruptive change almost two decades ago. When a disruptive idea is first born, typically far away from the market's mainstream.

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