Eric Jacobson

NOVEMBER 15, 2017

"The clearer your company culture, the less likely it will be hijacked by the weaker personalities in your team," explains Mary Christensen , author of the book, Be A Network Marketing Leader. "A A few guidelines will ensure a level playing field for all team members as they pursue their individual goals."

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N2Growth Blog

JUNE 14, 2010

So, in today’s post I’ll examine the power of disruption as a key business driver… Disruptive business models focus on creating, disintermediating, refining, reengineering or optimizing a product/service, role/function/practice, category, market, sector, or industry. When was the last time you entered a new market?

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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. On the strategic level, they continually push the limits of their teams, organizations, and partners. Boundary Pushing.

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Lead Change Blog

DECEMBER 29, 2015

Would you like to meet my team? 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. I’m excited to hear what this tremendous team has to share with us about leadership.

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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. Schedule monthly whole team meetings. Keep yourself updated with what's happening in their personal lives. Pay attention.

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Skip Prichard

SEPTEMBER 20, 2020

The definition I like to use is the that the person or team responsible ‘seeks problems to solve’ and where Insight + Ideas + Impact = Innovation. 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. ” -Sean Pillot de Chencey.

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The Horizons Tracker

FEBRUARY 22, 2022

It’s a market that is already worth $3.1 But in industrial deployments, think 5G powered ports, mines, and factories, operations can re-configure the signal to support even faster upload speeds,” Brian Chamberlin, Executive Advisor, Huawei Carrier Marketing, says. “ There are cases with upload speeds of over 1Gbps.

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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. The facility, which is located in the Cambridge Science Park in the UK, strives to help bring new ideas and applications to the market.

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Strategy Driven

JUNE 29, 2016

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. Teams can be entrepreneurial, but they first need to function effectively as a team.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 4, 2017

Disruption is a systemic problem: Clayton Christensen outlined in 1997 why it was so difficult for any individual business to defuse disruptive threats and embrace disruptive trends. They’ve read Christensen’s book The Innovator’s Dilemma. For the everyday student of business history, this might be unsurprising.

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Mills Scofield

APRIL 15, 2012

That’s why we see so many good ideas either not make it to market or not for long. ” Clayton Christensen , an advisor to BIF, taught us that customers are hiring companies to “do a job” for them. ” [1] It is simple, but not easy and in today’s world very short-lived. For many, this is frightening.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 28, 2018

Consistent with these famous case studies, scientific research shows that creativity and innovation can be enhanced by reducing team harmony. Likewise, a review of theoretical and quantitative studies showed that teams are often more creative when they have fewer rather than more resources (for example, time, money, and people).

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Deming Institute

JANUARY 19, 2017

In Clayton Christensen’s new book, Competing Against Luck , the authors delve into the importance of gaining a deep understanding of what your customers desire. That realization helped Moesta and his team begin to grasp the struggle potential home buyers faced. “I But I realized we were in the business of moving lives.”.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 10, 2015

Many of us are familiar with the hazards of Groupthink - when teams or organizations operate on autopilot and feel a general false sense of invulnerability. In some rare cases, individuals are able to push back against team consensus and help organizations recognize and proactively respond to changes in the competitive landscape.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 7, 2012

Most of the funds in which Kauffman invested failed to beat public market indices, despite the higher-risk nature of their work. Barriers to entry are decreasing and disruptive entrants are surging, a recipe that both Michael Porter and Clayton Christensen could agree augurs poorly for industry returns.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 17, 2012

For Clayton Christensen, this is a basic flaw of incumbency. Unfortunately, however, customers for firms serving the mass market, by definition, have largely of middle-of-the-road needs. Another, we suggest here, is to put lead users into your top management team and rely on them to force change onto the main organization from inside.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 7, 2012

Most of the funds in which Kauffman invested failed to beat public market indices, despite the higher-risk nature of their work. Barriers to entry are decreasing and disruptive entrants are surging, a recipe that both Michael Porter and Clayton Christensen could agree augurs poorly for industry returns.

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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. the iPad team works on making their product the best. Same with the Mac team."

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 10, 2010

These days, you're as likely to see "innovative" on any given job description as you are to see "strong communication skills" or "team player." Jeffrey Dyer, Hal Gregersen, and Clayton Christensen identify five "discovery skills" that make for innovative mindsets: associating, questioning, observing, experimenting, and networking.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 3, 2017

Given these network effects – as many proclaim – markets get “winner takes all properties”: the largest network will win, crowding out the remaining competitors (like MySpace and Google+). It is a misconception to think that network effects inevitably and always lead to a winner-take-all market.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 3, 2012

This kind of process can help successfully move an idea from a Post-It note to the market. Innosight's venture capital "team" is a two-person shop in Singapore. The core team, Pete Bonee and Piyush Chaplot, scour Singapore to find the best investment opportunities. Ultimately, a team discussion determines what moves forward.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 1, 2012

So how do you empower your corporate innovators to bring their ideas to market? In his seminal work, The Innovator's Dilemma , Clayton Christensen made the point that for disruptive innovations to be pursued effectively, they require autonomous business units. He was completely right. Would Gerber own today's V8?

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 13, 2012

This unnamed company had been the gorilla of its market for the past two decades and had gotten used to throwing its weight around, particularly with suppliers that wanted both the positive reputation effects and the volume that came from serving a market leader. There's nothing wrong with a company being proud of its accomplishments.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 14, 2011

The first experience involved extensive field visits to India and China as part of work with a multinational company looking to boost growth in those markets. Our team collectively spent about 100 days across the two markets, visiting urban areas, rural areas, homes, retail locations, hospitals, and more.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 24, 2013

When through our venture investment arm we seek to evaluate the profitability prospects of a young business, we look to see whether its team can credibly answer two questions: How will you charge enough for a transaction to cover the costs related to producing and delivering a good? There are times when a company chooses to be unprofitable.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 2, 2017

Clay Christensen's landmark theory -- in under two minutes. There were no processes and systems in place to integrate the outpost team with the company HQ and the rest of the organization. That meant that although the outpost team had struck gold, there was no means of sharing it among the rest of the firm. Related Video.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 12, 2011

This Monday, I was in Mumbai conducting market research with a project team. In their 2009 award-winning Harvard Business Review article, " The Innovator's DNA " (soon to be a book ), Jeffrey Dyer, Hal Gregersen, and Clayton Christensen discussed how successful innovators tend to be careful observers.

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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.”. So why open the floodgates?

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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. It’s not easy for big companies to innovate.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 1, 2017

Our innovation team, at 45 Park Lane, in London, started by compiling data about our guests’ clothing behaviors and our hotel laundry processes, getting housekeeping and bell staff involved, as well as searching social media for customer posts. Figuring Out What Our Customers Wanted. A cotton polo shirt retails for about $29.95

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 12, 2013

Her confession was blurted out in the midst of our first conversation about the new digital marketing strategy which we would eventually advise them on: "You know, I don''t think I believe in segmentation anymore." In others, marketers were still adamant that segmentation was the only way to go, but couldn''t explain its benefits.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 26, 2011

And some superstars have very innovation-friendly experience, such as launching a new product, opening up an office in an emerging market, or operating in a constrained environment. Send the team to school. It is always worth asking whether you have really created a team whose capabilities align with the task at hand.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 10, 2011

It's apparently a belief shared by many stock market analysts, who often extrapolate future earnings on the basis of historical results. South Korea-based conglomerate Samsung, for example, has a history of making large bets on technologies as they emerge and then dominating the market.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 14, 2012

It's not to create more jargon, it's to emphasize a point: that social is more than the stuff the marketing team deals with. Fifteen years ago, The Cluetrain Manifesto taught us that markets are conversations and that was a great starting point. Mass markets were a convenient fiction created by mass media.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 25, 2016

Most large companies seem to have lost the taste for entrepreneurship, their CEOs preferring to focus on using technology to maximize profit from existing businesses, as Clayton Christensen and others have shown, or not to invest at all. There are lessons here for giant corporations and the stock markets they trade on.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 5, 2012

When Clay Christensen, his son Matt, and I first launched Rose Park Advisors, we considered bringing on investors at the GP (general partner) level. need someone on the team who's 40-45, a little grey hair, with financial services experience.". My abilities were market-tested, validated by bulge bracket firms. Love your returns.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 27, 2010

new product, distribution channel, marketing approach). An innovation that transforms a market or creates a new one through simplicity, convenience, affordability or accessibility. What is the best way to disrupt a market? How should I form and manage innovation teams? How do I spot opportunities for innovation?

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