Mike Cardus

NOVEMBER 8, 2013

Definition of Relevance : Something (A) is relevant to a task (T) if it increases the likelihood of accomplishing the goal (G), which is implied by T. Hjørland & Sejer Christensen, 2002). What about this team project (task, goal, etc…) is relevant to people on the team? What is the goal this team is tasked to achieve?

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Motivation Team Team Building Christensen 139

LDRLB

AUGUST 5, 2013

These professors consistently build upon the body of knowledge and further the goal of evidence-based leadership. Clayton Christensen. Most are from business schools, others from a variety of fields relevant to leading organizations. We thought it’d be worthwhile to share with you the people we learn the most from. terriscandura.

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Hamel Porter Christensen Rogers 167

Mike Cardus

NOVEMBER 28, 2011

Your work and life are consistently driven by goals. What you find relevant about those goals you do more of. Relevance : Something (A) is relevant to a task (T) if it increases the likelihood of accomplishing the goal (G), which is implied by T. Hjørland & Sejer Christensen,2002) Wikipedia. We are goal-driven beings.

Productivity 95

Productivity Products Christensen Delegation 95

Joseph Lalonde

JANUARY 3, 2015

Clayton Christensen, a Harvard Professor says that only few people tend to hurt others and be dishonest in the initial stages of their career. It has become extremely difficult in modern business world to maintain a right balance between attaining short term financial objectives and achieving long term goals.

Leadership 120

Leadership Short-term Long-term Self-aware 120

LDRLB

AUGUST 22, 2012

These professors consistently build upon the body of knowledge and further the goal of evidence-based leadership. Clayton Christensen. Most are from business schools, others from a variety of fields relevant to leading organizations. We thought it’d be worthwhile to share with you the people we learn the most from. ProfBeechler.

Hamel 168

Hamel Porter Christensen Innovation 168

Mike Cardus

JUNE 29, 2011

Definition of Relevance : Something (A) is relevant to a task (T) if it increases the likelihood of accomplishing the goal (G), which is implied by T. Hjørland & Sejer Christensen, 2002). 3: When assigned a task or goal how do you prioritize the work? 0:3:6 Relevant to Self. 0 = What is relevant to self.

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Christensen Learning-by-Doing Definition Goal 116

Skip Prichard

SEPTEMBER 20, 2020

Who better to quote in this instance than the late, great, Clayton Christensen who famously answered this question in his book The Innovator’s Dilemma. If it’s largely the latter, management plays a more vigorous role: establishing roles and processes, setting goals and measures, and reviewing progress at every step.”

Innovation 104

Innovation Drucker Supply Chain Influence 104

Tony Mayo

JULY 26, 2010

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. If I had been suckered into telling Andy Grove what he should think about the microprocessor business, I’d have been killed.

Executive Coaching 113

Executive Coaching Execution Mayo Strategy 113

Mills Scofield

APRIL 15, 2014

The three of you had a common goal – a great performance. The more information and/or experience we have, the fewer buffers we need around our decisions and the more we can focus on the scope and achievement of our goals. When we have a common goal of WHY we want to do something, we are better able to trust.

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Efficiency Energy Senge Resources 132

Strategy Driven

JUNE 29, 2016

Professors of business and corporate strategy (which includes me) research and lecture about the goal of long-term “sustained” competitive advantage, driven by grand plans that mesmerize and seduce the most seasoned leaders and leadership teams.

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Supply Chain Real Estate Resistance Competitive Advantage 52

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 7, 2018

Christensen and venture capitalist Spencer Nam, a senior research fellow at the Clayton Christensen Institute, wrote in Harvard Health Policy Review , “Precisely understanding the causes and progression of a disease is the fastest and the most economical way to deliver more effective and individualized therapies to each person.”

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Cost Health Care Venture Capitalist Christensen 8

Modern Servant Leader

JANUARY 15, 2015

Contact: caduhigg@gmail 9 43,800 5,107 9,706 Clayton Christensen Innovation, Leadership Professor at Harvard Business School. Get hands-on serious about achieving your goals. ~ Author of @MeasureYourLife. Tweets with occasional assistance from the Fellows at the Forum for Growth & Innovation. Be Irresistible.

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Leadership Executive Coaching Goleman Emotional Intelligence 100

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 22, 2011

Learn how to master the art of the performance review: define job responsibilities, set goals, assess performance, provide recognition, and create development plans. By Jeff Dyer, Hal Gregersen, and Clay Christensen. By Dick Grote. and Are Ready to Do It Again. The Innovator's DNA: Mastering the Five Skills of Disruptive Innovators.

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Kaplan Christensen Books Disruptive Innovation 12

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 24, 2011

That book is The Innovator's Dilemma by HBS Professor Clay Christensen. Sculley flipped these priorities to where the goal was to make money. Anyone familiar with Professor Christensen's work will quickly recognize the same causal mechanism at the heart of the Innovator's Dilemma: the pursuit of profit.

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Innovation Christensen CFO Productivity 15

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 20, 2012

To me it's a clear story of serving customers better, but recently an executive at one company I was working with asked me, "Doesn't pursuing those green goals reduce Xerox's profits and eliminate jobs?". The shift helps customers reduce their environmental impacts and costs by cutting back on paper, energy, and waste.

Positioning 13

Positioning Christensen Business Model Innovation 13

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 22, 2011

Clay Christensen writes, "Your decisions about allocating your personal time, energy, and talent ultimately shape your life's strategy." But as Christensen observes, we often default to short-term tasks even when many of them may not connect to our bigger goals. Focus on the goal versus just using up time. It is possible.

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Christensen McKinsey Short-term Goal 16

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 17, 2012

In Mindset , psychologist Carol Dweck writes: "it isn't just our abilities and talent that bring our success — but whether we approach our goals with a fixed or growth mindset." Whether disruptive innovation involves a product, service, company, or especially, an individual, Christensen provides a robust theory for learning how to lead.

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Books Christensen Ries Disruptive Innovation 12

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 28, 2018

At the same time, its illustrious history and access serve to galvanize bold goals, and continuous pitches and feedback elicit sustained tension and conflict. Set bold but achievable goals. The lesson for leaders is obvious: Fight harmony, inject some tension into your teams and organizations, and embrace a moderate amount of conflict.

Creativity 13

Creativity Team Christensen Innovation 13

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 8, 2017

Set a leadership values-based goal. Set an aspirational goal to serve as a guiding compass. As one new manager shared recently, “my professional leadership goal is to be a genuine and emotionally intelligent manager who inspires others to excellence.” An authentic and connected presence begins from the inside-out.

Management 15

Management Emotional Intelligence Leadership Drotter 15

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 26, 2012

My colleague, Harvard Professor Clayton Christensen, addressed this topic in his HBR article, How Will You Measure Your Life? But then, Christensen says, they started making exceptions to the rules "just this once.". Clay observed that few people, if any, intend at the outset of their career to behave dishonestly and hurt others.

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Christensen Self-aware Short-term Long-term 14

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 23, 2011

Clayton Christensen's theories of innovation provide us a great lens through which we can understand this seeming paradox. When trying to build new growth businesses, Christensen observes that organizations need to employ an emergent strategy-making process. However, it will not succeed here.

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GDP Christensen Disruptive Innovation Business Model 13

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 30, 2014

Questioning is also seen by many business leaders as “inefficient,” according to the author and Harvard Business School professor Clayton Christensen. Within that structure, questioning by employees can be perceived as a challenge to authority.

Company 11

Company Ries Christensen Innovation 11

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 9, 2010

A quick background on the players: the Summit was thrown by a new organization dedicated to green business leadership, with events aided mightily by friend and colleague, the uber-connected Aimee Christensen. CWR's goal is also to find large-scale technologies and strategies for tackling climate change.

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Christensen Policies Entrepreneur Industry 12

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 27, 2010

Academics like Clayton Christensen and Vijay Govindarajan, leading-edge innovative companies like Procter & Gamble and Cisco Systems, and thoughtful writers like Michael Mauboussin and Bill James. The "new normal" of constant change requires mastering perpetual transformation. Why is innovation so hard? Who are your influences?

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Innovation Govindarajan Disruptive Innovation Business Model 16

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 25, 2011

An engineer, designer, serial entrepreneur, investor, and researcher, he has developed 1,000+ products/services and has collaborated with Clay Christensen at HBS for more than 15 years. Relevance = The distance between the mentor's expertise and the mentee's goal. The mentor side asks: Can I help and how much effort will it require?

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Mentor Christensen Incubator Learning-by-Doing 15

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 24, 2012

The problem, as Clay Christensen has recently emphasized, is that students rarely learn at the same rate, let alone in the same way. Thus, in designing the interaction between teacher activities and either textual or online learning, the goal is to break free of the strict complementarity that compels step-by-step advancement of the group.

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Video Education Christensen Hedge 14

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 25, 2014

This requires balancing your level of experience with the maturity of companies you approach: the goal is to find boss-mentors who have learned by building a team before but who aren’t so senior you can’t get direct mentorship. Equity — When given the chance, take some money off the table.

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Career Company IPO Christensen 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 25, 2013

Harvard Business School’s Clayton Christensen has taught us this is not possible — that an organization will not cannibalize itself. Achieving this goal can be tricky and usually ends up making the new process much more complicated than when it was first conceived.

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Organization Health Care Christensen Innovation 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 15, 2011

I had worked on a variety of volunteer projects with Clayton Christensen over several years, which led to an overlap of exchanges, including having several common acquaintances. While joining forces with people whom we know in multiple contexts can be complicated , the research suggests we are more likely to achieve our goals when we do.

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Christensen Project Social Capital Banking 15

Harvard Business Review

MAY 7, 2015

According to Kathleen Christensen, Program Director at the Alfred P. Gone are the days where an employee seeking flexibility goes out on a limb, risking the potential of stigma, to a new day, where the manager initiates the conversation about how flex can help the employee, the team, and the division to achieve their mutual goals.

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Survey Christensen Globalization Human Capital 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 22, 2011

HP had grown so large, to about $30 billion in sales, that Barnholt and other senior managers felt pinched to reach their double-digit growth goals. But by the mid-1990s, the challenges mounted. To launch HP's big new businesses, the company's managers took rigorously logical steps.

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Ries Agility Market Segmentation Christensen 11

First Friday Book Synopsis

MARCH 30, 2011

Saving the World at Work: What Companies and Individuals Can Do to Go Beyond Making a Profit to Making a Difference Tim Sanders Crown Business (2008) Note: Here is a review of a book I read when it was first published in 2003. I recently re-read it prior to reading and reviewing Sanders’ latest, Today [.].

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Review Books Company Hamel 85

Harvard Business Review

JULY 30, 2014

Short-term thinking has been charged with no less than a chronic decline in innovation capability by Clayton Christensen who termed it “the Capitalist’s Dilemma.” ) Corporations continue to focus too narrowly on shareholders , with terrible consequences – even at great companies like IBM. Townes, and Henry L.

Six Sigma 8

Six Sigma Drucker P&L Short-term 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 1, 2015

The goals vary, but this is the first time in history that every country will agree to manage its emissions. But, as climate policy expert Aimee Christensen pointed out to me, “the recent momentum going into Paris is primarily driven by the improving economics of action (e.g., For example, the U.S.

Conference 8

Conference Supply Chain Commitment Energy 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 14, 2012

Collaborating with people through shared purpose creates advantage because it allows everyone to work towards a shared goal. That was why Christensen's The Innovator's Dilemma became the bible of the boardroom. When people know the purpose, they are not waiting to be told what to do.

Banking 15

Banking Business Model Supply Chain Mass Marketing 15

First Friday Book Synopsis

MARCH 7, 2011

HBR’s Ten Must Reads on Strategy Various contributors Harvard Business Press (2011) How to create “a unique and valuable position” by deciding what to do…and not do This volume is one of several in a new series of anthologies of articles that initially appeared in the Harvard Business Review, in this instance from 1960 until [.].

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Review Strategy Books Positioning 85

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 31, 2016

I wanted to feel like good parent by helping my children understand the power of saving toward goals. But without good options for doing that, I ended up doing nothing – what Harvard Business School professor Clayton Christensen calls “non consumption.”

Productivity 9

Productivity Products Christensen Power 9