The Horizons Tracker

AUGUST 5, 2020

The pair outline four key, perceptual habits that they they believe are particularly powerful in opening up our minds to new opportunities. While much of the book is about ways to overcome bureaucracy, they also provide some tips for us as individuals to become more adaptable. “The future isn’t a lion in the veld.

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First Friday Book Synopsis

MAY 29, 2013

Bob''s blog entries "Be yourself; every one else is taken" "potential" means "you ain''t done it yet" Assessing Your Strengths and Weaknesses “How Will You Measure Your Life?"

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LDRLB

DECEMBER 15, 2015

She cofounded Rose Park Advisors, a boutique investment firm, with Clayton Christensen, and was an Institutional Investor-ranked analyst for eight consecutive years, including at Merrill Lynch. She is the author of Disrupt Yourself: Putting the Power of Disruptive Innovation to Work.

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First Friday Book Synopsis

MAY 6, 2013

I hope that at least a few of these recent posts will be of interest to you: BOOK REVIEWS Customer CEO: How to Profit from the Power of Your Customers Chuck Wall The Referral Engine: Teaching Your Business to Market Itself John Jantsch Disney U : How Disney University Develops the World’s Most Engaged, Loyal, [.].

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The Horizons Tracker

JUNE 5, 2022

This results in a growing amount of market power being concentrated in a small number of incumbents. Focus on outcomes – Last, but not least, is to focus on what Clayton Christensen would refer to as the job the customer is trying to do. This can help provide insights that customers may struggle to articulate.

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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? Whitney is the co-founder of Rose Park Advisors, an investment firm she co-founded with renowned innovation thinker Clayton Christensen. for Canadian readers).

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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.

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Christensen Succession Storytelling McKinsey 11

Mike Cardus

NOVEMBER 8, 2013

Hjørland & Sejer Christensen, 2002). 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. 1 = What is relevant to people on the team. 1: Explain & explore the skill sets and why each person was chosen to be on this team.

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Motivation Team Team Building Christensen 139

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. Thanks for adding value to the discussion Rick.

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Business Model Blog Disruptive Innovation Brand 361

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 24, 2016

But this confidence served as a platform that allowed Andy to learn important things from every person — even Clayton Christensen. He was a powerful executive because he understood how organizations really operate and could harness this knowledge. He had a high level of self-esteem, of course. He was confident in his abilities.

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The Horizons Tracker

FEBRUARY 22, 2022

The advent of 5G and continued improvements in artificial intelligence promise to make the technology even more powerful. The late Clay Christensen famously argued that we tend to hire products and services to help us get jobs done, and the key is, therefore, to understand whether a new technology helps do that or not.

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Stephenson Wireless Christensen Automotive 85

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.

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Executive Coaching Execution Mayo Strategy 113

Mills Scofield

APRIL 15, 2012

Long before it became fashionable, Saul was leveraging the power of business models in his career. ” Clayton Christensen , an advisor to BIF, taught us that customers are hiring companies to “do a job” for them. That’s why there are many inventive organizations, but few innovative ones.

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Kaplan Business Model Levitt Christensen 151

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. Edwards Deming and Clayton Christensen understand that the customer is part of the system in a way that most others don’t appreciate. This is a powerful concept.

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Modern Servant Leader

JANUARY 15, 2015

11 2,410 220 2,346 Brian Tracy Personal Development Professional Speaker, Author, Success Expert, CEO of Brian Tracy International¬ô 12 254,000 20,600 1,064,000 Charles Duhigg Personal Development New York Times reporter ([link] ) and author of The Power of Habit ([link] ). Author of @MeasureYourLife. 3 amazing kids and one great wife!

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Leadership Executive Coaching Goleman Emotional Intelligence 100

Harvard Business Review

MAY 21, 2015

The primary target of Lepore’s attack was Harvard Professor Clayton Christensen, whose groundbreaking book, The Innovator’s Dilemma coined the term disruptive technology (later transformed into disruptive innovation ). However, Lepore does Christensen’s work a tremendous disservice.

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First Friday Book Synopsis

SEPTEMBER 17, 2011

Spear McGraw-Hill (2009) The power of causal mechanisms that can drive a continuously self-improving system Clayton Christensen’s high praise of Steven Spear and this book is well-deserved. The High-Velocity Edge: How Market Leaders Leverage Operational Excellence to Beat the Competition Steven J.

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Books Review Operations System 75

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 12, 2012

The work of two of the most important scholars in the field, Clayton Christensen and Richard N. One of the key tipping points in a market occurs when a company, in Christensen's language, overshoots a given market tier by providing them performance that they can't use. Foster , suggests considering five questions: 1.

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System Christensen Disruptive Innovation Telecommunications 15

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

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 25, 2016

It’s even become a noun of sorts — uberization — which people use to describe a disruptive change to a staid industry ripe for innovation (though, to be sure, the popularization of the word “disruptive” means that it is often used in ways that the concept’s author , Clay Christensen, didn’t intend).

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Organization Airlines Constraint Power 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 17, 2012

Our ability to wield power and control situations is our masculine side, while the capacity for relatedness and love is feminine. 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. Leadership weds the two.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 13, 2014

Posing that question continues to be a powerful way to catalyze important strategic conversations. As Clayton Christensen likes to note , the primary job of leadership today is to “source, assemble, and ship numbers.” And yet, more than 50 years later, companies have become worse, not better, at answering it correctly – far worse.

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Levitt Christensen Competitive Advantage Welch 12

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. That one dark spot on Professor Christensen's prescience was always his predictions on Apple.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 14, 2011

They have the power to change the world. Or consider the influence of Clayton Christensen, who tops the new ranking. Christensen's influence on the business world has been profound. All the more galling when many businesses are struggling. But, celebrating the very best new thinking in management matters for three reasons.

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Blue Ocean Strategy Management Christensen Balanced Scorecard 15

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. Yet, the innovator's dilemma persists.

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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

MARCH 16, 2018

What does it take to cause something big about a community to change — something that no one individually has much power over, even something as big as a prevailing mindset? Increasingly there is an insistence that these powerful forces must leverage human creativity, not marginalize it. Tim Ellis/Getty Images.

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Drucker Long-term Short-term Decentralization 13

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 18, 2011

I am willing to bet that you'll get a range of different answers.

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Power Consensus Christensen Disruptive Innovation 12

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 3, 2017

Collaborative platforms allow people to combine their measurements and observations of large-scale phenomena (such as water quality ), while advances in machine learning, artificial intelligence, and sheer computational power extend the powers of human intellect just as earlier technologies amplified human strength.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 10, 2011

In its WTE plants, WM now produces enough energy to power 1 million homes , more than all the solar power in the United States. The wisdom of such a strategy has been discussed in business circles for years, most notably in the work of Harvard's Clayton Christensen ( The Innovator's Dilemma ).

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Productivity Products Christensen Document 15

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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Harvard Business Review

MAY 12, 2011

One way that consumers compensate for relatively low purchasing power is to purchase medicine literally by the dose. The only machine in the shop was a small solar-powered calculator. Traffic was high — about 15 customers stopped by during 20 minutes. It seemed like the pharmacist knew most customers.

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Innovation Licensing Christensen Learning-by-Doing 15

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. We learn to wield informal power. When we are outside the apparatus of power, we have to find workarounds if we are to achieve success. Often this involves informal power.

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Career Christensen Disruptive Innovation Learning-by-Doing 15

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 21, 2018

Businesses understand the power of digital innovations to reshape industries and markets. Clayton Christensen and others argue that an incumbent’s failure has little to do with the newness or complexity of the technology. Simon McGill/Getty Images.

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Innovation Company Marketing Christensen 10

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 20, 2012

Clay Christensen's work on disruptive innovation shows the power of David against Goliath, the mammal over the dinosaur, the startup over the incumbent. And the hole in the boat was actually quite small — six cuts measuring a little over three square feet. It's What You Can't See.

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Disruptive Innovation Wireless Christensen Film 12

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 28, 2018

Conversely, when teams and organizations enjoy too much harmony, they will gravitate toward inaction and complacency, which, as Clayton Christensen noted 20 years ago in The Innovator’s Dilemma , will breed decline and extinction. Loyalty is a powerful source of resilience, as religious groups, movements, and families have always known.

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Creativity Team Christensen Innovation 13

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 8, 2017

Instead, make it more powerful by sharing more about the context. As professor Clayton Christensen writes in his classic HBR article, “ How Will You Measure Your Life? .” Share the WHY : As a new manager, it’s also critical to share the WHY behind your vision, priorities, expectations, feedback, or requests.

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