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Leadership and Management Book Talk #7: Talking About Clayton Christensen

Art Petty

I'm referencing Harvard's Clayton Christensen, perhaps best known for his thinking and books focused on The Innovator's Dilemma. Wally Bock and I connected on the latest episode of our podcast to talk about Christensen and his books. The world of business lost a giant thinker recently, who by all accounts was a fabulous person.

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Lead from the Future

Leading Blog

The authors point out that present-forward thinking innovation at most organizations is mostly incremental improvements to what they are already doing. The authors offer a three-step process to help leaders develop visionary strategies and bring them to life. Develop Your Vision. Convert Vision to Strategy.

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Christensen on How to Measure Your Life

LDRLB

With that I picked up Clayton Christensen’s How Will You Measure Your Lif e. Christensen is one of the giant minds behind strategy and innovation. For each chapter, Christensen begins with an explanation of a theory and outlines it’s application to the business world. David Burkus is the editor of LDRLB.

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Disrupt Yourself: Play To Your Distinctive Strengths

Lead Change Blog

As the co-founder of a boutique investment firm with Clayton Christensen, Whitney Johnson came to realize that the frameworks of disruption not only apply to innovation and investing, but to individuals. In this video, Whitney drills down on one specific aspect of personal disruption: playing to our distinctive strengths.

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How Innovative Trailblazers are Transforming Business

Skip Prichard

Only those who are able to reinvent themselves, imagining new solutions, and developing new products and services to be relevant in the future will be poised to thrive. “Insight + Ideas + Impact = Innovation.” What’s your definition of innovation? What characteristics do the most innovative organizations share?

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35 Leadership Quotes from the 10th Global Peter Drucker Forum

Leading Blog

Innovation doesn’t happen by one person having an aha moment. Many managers mix up formulating a strategy and developing a plan. Efosa Ojomo, Research Fellow, Clayton Christensen Institute. ? Professor Bill Fischer, Professor of Innovation Management IMD. ? You don’t get innovation without diversity and conflict.

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Revealing Leadership Insights From Thinkers50

Tanveer Naseer

From blue ocean strategy to Michael Porter’s five forces, Vijay Govindarajan’s reverse innovation to Richard D’Aveni’s hypercompetition, great thinkers and their ideas directly effect how companies are run and how business people think about and practice business. Christensen’s influence on the business world has been profound.