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Revealing Leadership Insights From Thinkers50

Tanveer Naseer

And, the winner of the 2013 Thinkers50, Clay Christensen, now sees his ideas of disruptive innovation used and applied by managers in their relentless quest for competitive advantage. In The Innovator’s Dilemma , he looked at why companies struggle with radical innovation in their markets.

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When the Leader Needs Help

Great Leadership By Dan

I call this contradiction in the demands made of an entrepreneur the Paradox of Scale; in order to achieve fast growth, you had to be disruptively innovative and improvisational, and in order to sustain it, you have to become intensely disciplined and rigorously managerial. Some founders have no problem at all with this transition.

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Scaling Synthetic Biology (with Ginkgo’s Reshma Shetty)

Harvard Business Review

Ginkgo Bioworks COO Reshma Shetty discusses the company’s integrated approach to scaling synthetic biology.

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Introducing 100 Coaches: Pay It Forward Champions

Marshall Goldsmith

Whitney Johnson – Author of the critically acclaimed: Disrupt Yourself. Co-founder of Rose Park Advisors—Disruptive Innovation Fund. A leading thinker on strategy and breakthrough innovation. Previously Scott served as the key innovator and global director of the Purpose Strategy practice at Landor Associates.

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My First, Failed Foray into Venture Investing

Harvard Business Review

I was so confident in her idea that I convinced my former university professor husband to act as COO for the start-up, and we invested not only encouragement, but cash. But whatever the investment, and whether I'm investing personally or professionally for the Disruptive Innovation Fund, my basic parameters are now clear.

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Business Wisdom from the Commencement Speakers of 2014

Harvard Business Review

Sheryl Sandberg, COO of Facebook, speaking at City Colleges of Chicago. You’re witnessing creative destruction and disruptive innovation at work. So congratulations graduates – as you move forward in your careers, you’ll be face to face with innovation that’s relentless. Sometimes big dreams can be overwhelming.

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Who Gets a Seat at the Table?

Harvard Business Review

Jim Whitehurst got a short course in doing just that when he arrived as CEO of the rough-and tumble Red Hat from his post as COO of the rather more buttoned-up Delta Airlines four years ago. Escaping that rut and rethinking who gets a seat at the table just might be the most urgent leadership imperative of our day.

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