Engaging Leader

SEPTEMBER 15, 2014

Jeff Dyer’s previous book The Innovator’s DNA, co-authored with by Clayton Christensen and Hal Gregersen, is a bestseller, has already been published in more than 13 languages, and won the 2011 Innovation Book of the Year Award from Chartered Management Institute. Jeff is Professor of Strategy at Brigham Young University and Wharton.

Uncertainty 214

Uncertainty Organization Christensen Tactics 214

First Friday Book Synopsis

MAY 6, 2013

Lawler III Gareth Jones HBR How to Use Your Online Network to Test Ideas John Jantsch Keith Sawyer Management Tip of the Day motivation Paul H. Eccher Peter Gray: Part 2 Rob Goffee Rutger von Post strategy+business talent management The McKinsey Quarterly The Referral Engine These Soft Skills Can Go a Long Way Thomas Williams Zig Zag'

Kleiner 80

Kleiner Schein Blog McKinsey 80

First Friday Book Synopsis

JUNE 18, 2011

The Innovator’s Solution: Creating and Sustaining Successful Growth Clayton M. Christensen and Michael E. In a previous work, The Innovator’s Dilemma, Christensen [.]. Raynor Harvard Business Press (2003) Note: I read and then reviewed this “business classic” when it was first published and recently re-read it.

Christensen 80

Christensen Review Books Innovation 80

First Friday Book Synopsis

DECEMBER 15, 2013

Small Giants Community io9 James Hadley Jeremy Olshan Karen Christensen Kerry Patterson LinkedIn Maria Popova Mobilizing your C-suite for big-data analytics Naked Launch Nan Russell Nathan Heller Paul Willmott ReturnOnValuesProject.com Roger Martin Roman Krznaric: “How Should We Live?”

Blog 75

Blog Christensen Rogers McKinsey 75

Tanveer Naseer

DECEMBER 15, 2015

But can the power of disruptive innovation also be applied at the individual level to drive personal success and growth, and if so, how exactly do we go about doing that? It’s the question that serves as the guiding focus of my talk with management thinker, writer, and author, Whitney Johnson.

Disruptive Innovation 100

Disruptive Innovation Innovation Constraint Christensen 100

Harvard Business Review

MAY 15, 2012

This week marks the release of Clayton Christensen's highly-anticipated book, How Will You Measure Your Life (with co-authors James Allworth and Karen Dillon). The book expands on Christensen's McKinsey-award-winning HBR article , drawing life lessons from the models that form the basis of his business-oriented writing. Persistence.

Christensen 11

Christensen Succession Storytelling McKinsey 11

The Horizons Tracker

DECEMBER 28, 2021

The late Clayton Christensen famously highlighted that consumers are not buying our product as much as they are hiring it to complete a particular job. Unfortunately, to use the vernacular of Stephen Haeckel , many innovators adopt a make and sell approach rather than sense and respond. Co-creating innovation.

Innovation 91

Innovation Technology Operations CIO 91

Lead Change Blog

DECEMBER 29, 2015

Here they are: Daniel Pink – In 2015, London-based Thinkers 50 named him, alongside Michael Porter and Clayton Christensen, as one of the top 10 business thinkers in the world. Bill George – He has taught leadership since 2004 and is a professor of management practice at Harvard Business School, where.

Porter 150

Porter Christensen Consultative Influence 150

First Friday Book Synopsis

OCTOBER 20, 2013

I hope that at least a few of these recent posts will be of interest to you: BOOK REVIEWS Lessons from the Sandbox: Rediscovering the Keys to Business Success Alan Gregerman Why Great Leaders Don’t Take Yes for an Answer: Managing for Conflict and Consensus Michael A. Roberto Michael C.

Blog 75

Blog Christensen Rogers McKinsey 75

Joseph Lalonde

JANUARY 3, 2015

The crisis was an eye opener for many leaders who were guilty of measuring success in monetary terms. What leaders need to do is to look inward to measure success as a leader and most importantly, a human instead of looking for external measures of success. This is a guest post by Ali Jafri.

Leadership 120

Leadership Short-term Long-term Self-aware 120

LDRLB

JULY 17, 2012

In the book, the Innovator’s DNA , Clayton Christensen and colleagues list five behaviors that characterize innovative leaders: associational thinking, questioning, observing, networking and experimenting. Five personal leadership competencies are essential for success in today’s environment: A Leapfrogging Mindset. Adaptive Planning.

Disruptive Innovation 133

Disruptive Innovation Innovation Christensen Kaplan 133

Mike Cardus

NOVEMBER 8, 2013

You can adjust the system they work within meaning the environment, work itself, rewards and tasks , management , etc… By adjusting the system of work you will adjust the behaviors and hopefully increase motivation. Hjørland & Sejer Christensen, 2002). What challenges does the team leaders manager have? What do you think?

Motivation 139

Motivation Team Team Building Christensen 139

N2Growth Blog

JUNE 14, 2010

The most successful companies incorporate disruptive thinking into all of their business and management practices to gain distinctive competitive value propositions. So why do so many established and often well managed companies struggle with disruptive innovation?

Business Model 305

Business Model Blog Disruptive Innovation Brand 305

N2Growth Blog

JANUARY 13, 2011

My advice to you is not to let your business get caught up in embracing random ideas – at least not without some initial analysis being conducted to determine the likelihood of success. Failed initiatives are costly at several levels. Every sound business initiative begins with a solid strategic plan.

Blog 384

Blog Innovation Strategic Planning Brand 384

Mike Cardus

NOVEMBER 28, 2011

As a manager determining and being purposeful about delegating task that subordinates find relevant that are in-line with their values will achieve great work. Hjørland & Sejer Christensen,2002) Wikipedia. In work it is the manager ; who has control of the system. Your work and life are consistently driven by goals.

Productivity 95

Productivity Products Christensen Delegation 95

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. In it, he focused on the in-built problem that faces a successful company which is doing the ‘right thing’ by obsessing over their loyal customers to the exclusion of others.

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

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 14, 2011

Who is the most influential living management thinker? That is the question that the Thinkers50, the biennial global ranking of management thinkers , seeks to answer. But, celebrating the very best new thinking in management matters for three reasons. Second, management matters. It's a fair question.

Blue Ocean Strategy 15

Blue Ocean Strategy Management Christensen Balanced Scorecard 15

Modern Servant Leader

JANUARY 15, 2015

Whether you need a leadership and management expert for yourself or your team, you’ll find someone great below. Contact: caduhigg@gmail 9 43,800 5,107 9,706 Clayton Christensen Innovation, Leadership Professor at Harvard Business School. Project Manager at @courtinnovation. 13 10,300 817 Joseph J. Be Irresistible.

Leadership 100

Leadership Executive Coaching Goleman Emotional Intelligence 100

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 8, 2017

One of the most exciting and — sometimes anxiety-producing transitions in a career — comes when you move from being an individual contributor to becoming a manager. So, as a new manager, how do you build an authentic and connected leadership presence that has a positive impact on your team and colleagues?

Management 15

Management Emotional Intelligence Leadership Drotter 15

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 19, 2012

My own publisher, HBS Press, published two the very same month as my book — one of them co-authored by heavyweight Clay Christensen. What if success or failure is just one unexpected moment away? Ask for the keys to career success and you'll get logical explanations, recommendations, pathways and approaches.

Succession 17

Succession Diversity Open-book Innovation 17

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 16, 2014

As Harvard Business School professor Clay Christensen described in his mega-bestseller How Will You Measure Your Life? (with Karen Dillon and James Allworth), the ROI of work is immediately apparent. Instead, he writes , “Happiness is…the precursor to greater success. But, of course, it was possible. But that’s actually backward.

Christensen 14

Christensen Gilbert Short-term Long-term 14

Mills Scofield

NOVEMBER 5, 2011

Experiment : In performance management, process, quality, workflow, customer satisfaction, etc., After some introspection, she agreed to head up Clayton Christensen’s venture fund, Rose Park Advisors , to help companies grow. Lesson: If failure is inevitable, every success is more significant.

Blanchard 124

Blanchard Video Venture Funding Innovation 124

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.

Christensen 13

Christensen Company Consensus Gilbert 13

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 10, 2015

After a long and successful run, the theory of disruptive innovation has come under attack of late. In a recent Sloan Management Review article, Dartmouth professor Andrew King asked “ How Useful Is the Theory of Disruptive Innovation? ” and concluded it’s not nearly as valuable as its proponents argue.

Disruptive Innovation 8

Disruptive Innovation Innovation Christensen Henderson 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 18, 2015

That’s no surprise, since Clayton Christensen co-founded our company in 2000, five years after his Harvard Business Review article with Joseph L. Christensen and two co-authors revisit where disruption theory stands today in a new HBR article, “What Is Disruptive Innovation? The rest, of course, is history. ” I agree.

Disruptive Innovation 8

Disruptive Innovation Christensen Levitt Innovation 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 24, 2011

That book is The Innovator's Dilemma by HBS Professor Clay Christensen. 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. A string of professional managers had led the company straight off the edge of that cliff.

Innovation 15

Innovation Christensen CFO Productivity 15

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 17, 2012

Recent corporate history is littered with successful established firms who failed to manage disruptive innovation even with full knowledge that it was coming. They knew digital photography was the future and invested heavily in hybrid technology in the hope of managing the transition from physical photo printing. It didn't work.

Christensen 8

Christensen Disruptive Innovation Mass Marketing Wireless 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 7, 2011

To understand my stance, it's important to understand one basic idea; past success isn't always a good indicator of future success. Clayton Christensen has long been a proponent of hiring managers with the right " schools of experience." Christensen's theory, however, could have predicted this failure.

Christensen 13

Christensen Price CEO Media 13

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 13, 2014

As Clayton Christensen likes to note , the primary job of leadership today is to “source, assemble, and ship numbers.” Thought leaders like Christensen, Roger Martin , Michael Porter , and Steve Denning have all argued that shareholder value has been exposed as a flawed paradigm. No, it’s to maximize shareholder value.

Levitt 12

Levitt Christensen Competitive Advantage Welch 12

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 16, 2011

Clayton Christensen would agree with the intuition that Groupon displays but ignores: businesses should become profitable before they become big. The best way to manage a fledgling business is for managers to be impatient for profit but patient for growth.

Christensen 20

Christensen Fixed Costs Metrics Venture Funding 20

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 7, 2013

Both articles espoused slightly new definitions of disruption, expanding the categorization of the world that Clay Christensen introduced us to more than 20 years ago. Disruption shouldn't be a term used to describe any successful innovation. Over the course of the past few weeks, two articles crossed my desk touching on this issue.

Christensen 9

Christensen Disruptive Innovation Innovation Bottom-up 9

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 15, 2012

And they've been hugely successful. Academics offer up at least three answers: Clayton Christensen asserts that a single organization can't house two competing systems; companies seeking to drive disruptive growth therefore need to create spinoff organizations. That iteration-itis post you wrote really hit home," she said.

Innovation 14

Innovation Gilbert Govindarajan Christensen 14

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 22, 2011

What you can know is that the markets for disruptive innovations are unpredictable, and therefore your initial strategy for entering a market will be wrong," writes Christensen. During this time, as I volunteered in public affairs for my church, I became acquainted with Professor Christensen. These require different metrics of success.

Disruptive Innovation 17

Disruptive Innovation Christensen Metrics Innovation 17

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. She loved her job, and with a background in public affairs in communications had been successful in both international business and management roles.

Innovation 12

Innovation Christensen Decisionmaking CTO 12

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 10, 2011

Of course, that young HBS professor was Innosight co-founder Clayton Christensen. Academic journals have dissected the disruptive innovation theory and hundreds of thousands of students around the world have seen Christensen's famous model. That's not to say that there haven't been success stories. Any other ideas? *

Innovation 15

Innovation Disruptive Innovation Christensen Kahneman 15

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 26, 2012

The crisis exposed the fallacies of measuring success in monetary terms and left many leaders with a deep feeling of unease that they were being pulled away from what I call their True North. By external standards I was highly successful, but inside I was deeply unhappy. I was losing my way. That is much easier said than done.

Christensen 15

Christensen Self-aware Short-term Long-term 15