Eric Jacobson

NOVEMBER 3, 2016

"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 Christensen's recommended eight guidelines are: We respect each other. We keep it positive. We support each other.

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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 Christensen's recommended eight guidelines are: We respect each other. We keep it positive. We support each other.

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LDRLB

AUGUST 4, 2011

In doing so, I’m desperately trying to mesh together the positives of both while leaving the negatives behind. Clayton Christensen is the genius behind “disruptive innovation” and The Innovator’s Dilemma. Innovation christensen innovation university' As such, this video (and book) caught my idea.

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First Friday Book Synopsis

JUNE 18, 2011

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

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LDRLB

AUGUST 4, 2011

In doing so, I’m desperately trying to mesh together the positives of both while leaving the negatives behind. Clayton Christensen is the genius behind “disruptive innovation&# and The Innovator’s Dilemma. As such, this video (and book) caught my idea.

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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. Most struggling leaders fail to understand that leadership is about making a positive difference in the lives of their families, employees, customers and society as a whole.

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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. Emma Seppälä – Her areas of research include positive organizational psychology, health psychology, cultural psychology, well-being, and resilience.

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N2Growth Blog

JUNE 14, 2010

Why did American auto-makers lose their once dominant position to their European and Asian counterparts? Why didn’t Folgers recognize the retail consumer demand for coffee and develop a Starbucks type business model? Why didn’t IBM see Dell coming? How did Microsoft not keep Google at bay?

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Skip Prichard

SEPTEMBER 20, 2020

That’s what Brand Positive co-founder Sean Pillot de Chencey teaches in his book Influencers & Revolutionaries: How Innovative Trailblazers, Trends and Catalysts Are Transforming Businesses. Sean emphasizes that a relentless focus on the customer is essential.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 20, 2012

But the reality is that any company's competitive position is always eroding: the status quo is on a downward trend. As the great guru on innovation Clayton Christensen has said, we base our thinking on "an assumption that the status quo in the business will maintain itself into the future. But the present status quo.is

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N2Growth Blog

JUNE 24, 2014

Thanks to Professor Clayton Christensen of Harvard University and his 1997 landmark book, The Innovator’s Dilemma , we have a new way of understanding the life cycle of companies and why some market leaders maintain their dominant position and other one-time market leaders disappear. WHAT IS A DISRUPTIVE INNOVATION?

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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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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 11, 2014

Clay Christensen, the innovation expert, advocates instead the approach taken by Wharton, which has made MOOCs out of all its core courses. And finally, focusing on current relative positions discounts the importance of technological changewhich, over time, will make online models more competitive. But I dont have to.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 22, 2011

In leaving Wall Street, I was not only walking away from the money that came with my position, but from a certain level of prestige and power as well. 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.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 16, 2011

Yet, the company reported ASCOI of positive $80.1 Rather, Groupon felt the need to include a metric of profitability, no matter how contrived, that was actually positive. Clayton Christensen would agree with the intuition that Groupon displays but ignores: businesses should become profitable before they become big.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 22, 2011

To appreciate the truth of this claim, it's vital to understand one of Clayton Christensen's theories on marketing and product development: Jobs-to-be-done. When I compared Tower to other options to fulfill that job, it was pretty well positioned. But this is the nature of what Professor Christensen calls low-end disruption.

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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." Boards tend to look at candidates for executive positions and hire them based on past success in generating shareholder return. Christensen's theory, however, could have predicted this failure.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 26, 2012

I had begun to focus too much on impressing other people and positioning myself to become CEO. 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.".

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 17, 2012

The Innovator's Dilemma by Clayton Christensen (which is also on John Coleman's list) builds on the notion of a growth mindset more specifically within a business context. 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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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 28, 2018

For instance, a recent study of 100 product development teams found that two common disruptors of team harmony, namely diversity and task uncertainty, were positively associated with creative performance. Sustain positive stress. People are not motivated by tasks that are either too easy or unachievable.

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LDRLB

MAY 26, 2014

In that sense, the Christensen solution has become counterproductive; in fact, it’s become dangerous. That’s not our market position, so we don’t need to worry about it. Because when these innovations show up, they are better and cheaper right from the start. If you follow his advice, you’re going to wait too long.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 27, 2013

In 2007, Clayton Christensen co-founded Rose Park Advisors, a hedge fund devoted to investing in disruptive companies. As a result, outlooks are more likely to be positive or mixed. The idea was to transform his theory of disruptive innovation into an investment thesis. But do markets really follow the logic of an academic theory?

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 16, 2018

To prosper over time, every company must not only deliver financial performance, but also show how it makes a positive contribution to society. . “Society is demanding that companies, both public and private, serve a social purpose.

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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.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 8, 2017

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? As professor Clayton Christensen writes in his classic HBR article, “ How Will You Measure Your Life? I then imagined how positively that affected her as a spouse and a parent.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 13, 2013

Yet, with all of this progress it still feels like a positive surprise when you see a large company confidently approach the challenges of innovation. Research by Clayton Christensen, Rita McGrath, Richard D'aveni, and Richard Foster make very clear that we are in a new era where competitive advantage is a transitory notion.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 15, 2016

The general rule is projects with positive net present values should get funded, and those with negative ones shouldn’t. Most executives know that the present value of an investment comes from projecting its cash flows and discounting those numbers into today’s dollars. That assumes, however, that the base case is zero.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 23, 2016

To this day, Microsoft Office remains the dominant office software suite, a position it has held since the 1990s. By contrast, disruption, and particularly demand-side disruption of the type put forward by Clay Christensen, is a force that relies on a steady process of picking off one customer at a time.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 3, 2012

I sit on the Investment Committee, along with Harvard Professor Clayton Christensen, primarily getting involved when we are getting close to a big decision about a current or potential portfolio company. Based on what we've seen, we evaluate whether the idea is negative, positive, or neutral in each of those characteristics.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 19, 2012

Plus, specialized positions can be hard to find. You'll also be more memorable: Generalists are much more difficult to cast for open positions and often must push harder to demonstrate their fit for more specific roles. Specialist roles are often unadvertised and typically filled through networks. When do I specialize?

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 10, 2012

In this month's HBR, Professor Clayton Christensen and I have an article that describes how to develop core business strategy in the face of disruption. Best Buy needs to take stock of its unique advantages and compete for the customers that disruptive entrants are currently poorly positioned to win.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 19, 2014

Clayton Christensen first documented this phenomenon in his study of the disk drive industry , and found that new companies targeting existing customers succeeded 6% of the time, while new companies that targeted non-consumers succeeded 37% of the time. The difference matters greatly in terms of a company’s competitive position.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 30, 2011

When he should have been feeling optimistic and excited about his new position, why did he look like the unhappiest person in the world? Like Clayton Christensen did , spend an hour a day thinking about what things you're passionate about. This isn't uncommon. Spend time defining your passions.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 15, 2012

The jettisoning of compromise is a direct result of this state of affairs; why would you give an inch of your position to someone whose perspective you can't even bring yourself to entertain? The place for me, however, where an appreciation of empathy is most undervalued, is in business.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 12, 2012

Regardless of how well-positioned you are, how thoughtfully you've planned for the future, or how well you satisfy customers, your strategic plan will not always be on target. However, as Clayton Christensen aptly points out, disruption occurs over time — not in a specific instant. Business is dynamic. By 3-D printing?

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 7, 2017

Earlier this year, Sruthi Thatchenkery , Michael Christensen , Stefanos Zenios and I completed a study of 231 surgical instrument ventures over a 25-year period. Any less and the company will lose sight of what its customers need; any more and the group will tend to converge on old ideas.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 3, 2014

Instead African companies need to adopt a ‘ Training-Heavy ’ strategy, which positions enterprises as remedial schools and emphasizes continuous, metric-based learning. As soon as the new hire is made, companies should emphasize the employee’s position as an apprentice and present each day as a learning opportunity.

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