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096: Bringing the Lean Startup into Your Organization: Leadership in the Age of Uncertainty | with Jeff Dyer

Engaging Leader

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. Engaging Leader™ Tactics' Please submit your comments below!

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Socially Responsible Business Can Only Succeed If It Becomes a Movement

Harvard Business Review

In it, he points to the growing threat posed by activist investors who push for short-term share-boosting tactics without regard for firms’ long-term viability. This is part of why Larry Fink’s open letter to CEOs , sent on the occasion of his investment company BlackRock’s 30th anniversary, has generated such acclaim.

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What Markets Do and Don’t Get About Innovation

Harvard Business Review

In 2007, Clayton Christensen co-founded Rose Park Advisors, a hedge fund devoted to investing in disruptive companies. The task shifts from merely identifying innovations to evaluating strategy, tactics, people, and prices. The idea was to transform his theory of disruptive innovation into an investment thesis.

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What Would It Take to Disrupt a Platform Like Facebook?

Harvard Business Review

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. Among other things, a platform is a device for coordinating the choices of many individuals.

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Ideas Don't Equal Innovation | N2Growth Blog

N2Growth Blog

They should be incorporated into integrated solutions that eliminate redundancies, and build in tactical leverage points. It must be actionable through tactical implementation. Moore and Christensen tell us what to do, but their prescription is rarely followed. I look forward to hearing more from you.

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The 4 Types of Innovation and the Problems They Solve

Harvard Business Review

Just as we wouldn’t rely on a single marketing tactic or a single source of financing for the entire life of an organization, we need to build up a portfolio of innovation strategies designed for specific tasks. Clay Christensen's landmark theory -- in under two minutes. Related Video. The Explainer: Disruptive Innovation.

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The Most Efficient Die Early

Harvard Business Review

Clayton Christensen has nicely described how the very things that made a company successful, including its efficiency, can also cause it to become obsolete when it's unable to adapt to disruptive change. Only after more than two years of combat and death did units begin adjusting their tactics in Iraq and Afghanistan, but adjust they did.