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Leading to Disruptive Innovation

LDRLB

Disruptive innovation is no longer the exception, it’s the rule. If we’re not proactively driving disruption, we’ll eventually need to react to it. And to top it off, most organizations are set-up to reward predictability and control – the exact opposites of what’s required to lead during disruptive times.

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Some ?What If?? Questions You Should Be Asking Right Now

Next Level Blog

Taking time to get your team engaged in some challenging “What if?” As I wrote about back then , my biggest and most valuable takeaway from that trip was being able to see how much time and effort the leadership and crew spent in preparing for things that could happen. Getting your team engaged in “What if?”

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LeadershipNow 140: October 2015 Compilation

Leading Blog

The Real Leadership Lessons of Steve Jobs via HBR. Transforming Organisations for Sustained Innovation by Hubert Gatignon via @INSEADKnowledge. From @JohnBaldoni 5 Ways Jim Harbaugh Inspires His Team. MIT: New research fundamentally challenges Clay Christensen's theory of disruptive innovation.

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Disruptive Business Models | N2Growth Blog

N2Growth Blog

While much has been written about corporate vision, mission, process, leadership, strategy, branding and a variety of other business practices, it is the engineering of these practices to be disruptive that maximizes opportunities. So why do so many established and often well managed companies struggle with disruptive innovation?

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Overcoming the Barriers to Corporate Entrepreneurship

Strategy Driven

How do organizations achieve longevity, the kind of longevity that survives long past the founder or any particular leader or leadership team? It is fashionable today to have management committees, at various organizational levels, working as teams. Resistance from the Supplier.

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To Stay Ahead of Disruption's Curve, Follow Lead Users

Harvard Business Review

Recent corporate history is littered with successful established firms who failed to manage disruptive innovation even with full knowledge that it was coming. For Clayton Christensen, this is a basic flaw of incumbency. Steve Jobs, influenced by Christensen, was keenly aware of the innovator's dilemma.

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Your Favorite HBR Articles of 2015

Harvard Business Review

You believe the right kind of leadership can make things better (the two leaders who made it onto this list — Novo Nordisk’s Lars Sørensen, our best-performing CEO of the year, and Pope Francis — are both proving that). Your Late-Night Emails Are Hurting Your Team. What Is Disruptive Innovation?