Mills Scofield

APRIL 15, 2014

If I’m going to fly, I have to trust the airline to have sane, sober, skilled, alert pilots. To create great music you need an ensemble — a trio, quartet, basically a team of players with complementary strengths, skills and vulnerabilities and a willingness to listen to each other and a common goal.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 8, 2017

At this juncture, what you think, what you say, and how you show up — in effect, your leadership presence — can have a direct impact on those you are now leading and managing for the first time. Set a leadership values-based goal. Leadership presence is therefore an “and/both” versus an “either/or.”

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 22, 2011

The Innovator's DNA: Mastering the Five Skills of Disruptive Innovators. By Jeff Dyer, Hal Gregersen, and Clay Christensen. Alongside Clay Christensen, Jeff Dyer and Hal Gregersen conducted an in-depth study that uncovered the five skills shared by the best innovators in the world. By Sylvia Ann Hewlett and Ripa Rashid.

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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? Early on, even Bernie Madoff and Enron's Jeff Skilling planned to live honest lives. But then, Christensen says, they started making exceptions to the rules "just this once.".

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 7, 2011

Clayton Christensen has long been a proponent of hiring managers with the right " schools of experience." A board might assume that having generated great returns at the helm of a growth company yielded relevant skills for generating returns at the helm of a failing media firm.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 2, 2011

Editor's note: This post is part of a three-week series examining innovation in health care, published in partnership with the Advanced Leadership Initiative at Harvard University. xlv-xlvi by Clayton Christensen, Jerome Grossman M.D., Christensen is a professor at Harvard Business School. and Jason Hwang M.D.

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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. This requires a leadership team and work force that is always trying to ask the questions that can light up the big honking issues.”. Provide the tools to question well.

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Chart Your Course

JUNE 30, 2016

It is hands-down the most popular leadership book of all time. He demonstrates that the ability to build trust is THE key leadership competency of the new global economy. The Five Dysfunctions of a Team: A Leadership Fable (2002). Christensen. Listed in no particular order. The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People (1989).

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First Friday Book Synopsis

JULY 30, 2011

Here’s a recent post by the folks the Drucker Exchange (the Dx) that hosts an ongoing conversation about bettering society through effective management and responsible leadership.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 13, 2012

While becoming a leader in an industry or geography might involve a dose of luck, it also involves significant skill, determination, and hard work. If you cut through Clayton Christensen's management classic The Innovator's Dilemma , the root cause of failure in the face of disruptive change is the resource-allocation process.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 26, 2013

Ballmer, whose skills were in many ways complementary to Gates'', took the helm of an already massive organization as it entered an era of relentless disruptive innovation by competitors. The debate has focused almost entirely on the leadership of innovation. Innovation Leadership Leadership transitions'

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 2, 2014

As Steve Blank, Clay Christensen, and many others have pointed out, once firms reach a certain size, most of their resources (and investment dollars) are rightly devoted to executing and defending their existing business model. To reverse this, senior leadership took a number of steps. It’s not easy for big companies to innovate.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 3, 2014

We identified two sides to the problem: the jobs gap and the skills gap. Our organization focuses mainly on plugging the ‘skills gap’: we identify, train, and place underprivileged youths in emerging industries like the hospitality sector. A good training strategy is a competitive advantage. Align Culture and Incentives.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 19, 2013

Questions alone might be clever, but as Jeff Dyer, Clayton Christensen, and I found in our research behind The Innovator''s DNA , they rarely produce positive impacts. Catalytic Questioning ensures this essential leadership skill improves over time to unlock even better, more creative solutions. Step 5: Get to work!

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 12, 2013

But they need highly skilled innovators to lead those kinds of innovation efforts. Perhaps the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation or the Clinton Global Initiative could fund the award, with support from world-leading academics like Clayton Christensen and Rita McGrath. Innovation Leadership'

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 1, 2017

In early 2016 some numbers surfaced at a few of the Dorchester Collection’s luxury hotels that caught leadership’s attention: Complaints about our laundry service were on the rise, as was the cost of compensating guests for damage to their clothes. One hotel had to replace a fabulously expensive Givenchy evening gown.

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Eric Jacobson

OCTOBER 30, 2016

Here, from the new book, Be A Network Marketing Leader , are some tips on how, as a leader, you can connect with your individual team members: Send cards on their birthdays and anniversary-of-joining dates. Keep yourself updated with what's happening in their personal lives. Show your support during personal or family crises.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 8, 2017

Clay Christensen , Professor at Harvard Business School and Innosight co-founder. An organization that grew up producing newspapers, for instance, not only lacks key skills to build a digital content company but also might actively resist embracing the new in order to protect the business it knows and loves.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 27, 2012

Clayton Christensen's book How Will You Measure Your Life has turned into a well-deserved best seller. The book traces back to Christensen's 2010 Harvard Business Review article , which was based on a speech he gave to that year's graduating Harvard Business School class. Providing employment opportunities to low-skilled workers.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 11, 2013

When I suggested to Clayton Christensen that we partner with Hatkoff to create the Tribeca Disruptive Innovation Awards , Clay’s response was : I trust you Whitney. Celine Schillinger sought to change the leadership landscape of Sanofi, a major pharmaceutical company. If you say we should, let’s do it.

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Leading Blog

JULY 31, 2012

Six Extras that build influence & leadership. Bill_George: Fellow HBS professor Clay Christensen shares 15 business theories to improve your life. mikemyatt: 4 Leadership Lessons From The Olympics on @Forbes. Check out @porrojd 's blog " Tough Talk for Hard Times " for improving your communication skills.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 20, 2013

You need to hone a skill no one teaches you in college, and few people in the workforce understand: the ability to identify problems no one has explicitly articulated, and then solve them. What leadership position — perhaps that no one else wants — can you leverage to build connections and a solid professional reputation?

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 18, 2017

Garvin was a generalist more than a specialist, perhaps because he came of age at HBS during the 1980s, when the school’s primary focus was the development of skilled general managers. Kaplan’s balanced scorecard or Clayton Christensen’s disruptive innovation. Great leadership is extraordinarily difficult.

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