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How To Lead In Uncertainty

CO2

Before reaching the top of the S-Curve, there will be disintermediation, which moves humanity from the current S-Curve to a new one. He developed Cynefin while at IBM to help decision-makers better understand how to behave based on their assessment of the organization’s environment.

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How to Approach Leading in Times of Uncertainty

CO2

Before reaching the top of the S-Curve, there will be disintermediation, which moves humanity from the current S-Curve to a new one. He developed Cynefin while at IBM to help decision-makers better understand how to behave based on their assessment of the organization’s environment.

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Future of work and prognostications following the covid19 pandemic

Mike Cardus

Companies will make window dressing of employee wellness and continue to value signal – while reducing staff, making flatter organizational structures , underfunding employee wellness initiatives, holding more cash, and figuring out how to keep production numbers high. “Belief in social-atomism develops linear causality.

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Leadership and Competition

N2Growth Blog

In today’s post I’ll share my thoughts on how to identify competitive threats as well as competitive opportunities…. If we didn’t study films and scouting reports, develop plays that would exploit match-ups, and execute our game plan we would lose…it was as simple as that. Every leader has an approach to dealing with competition.

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Disruptive Business Models | N2Growth Blog

N2Growth Blog

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. How did Microsoft not keep Google at bay?

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The Real Secret to Thriving Amid Disruptive Innovation

Harvard Business Review

It's media disintermediation at work! Breyer (who is Schoendorf's partner at Accel, a VC firm that appears headed for survival) at one point does say that "content developers are better off than ever before." Lots of industries have been turned upside down by innovation over the years. Nice to hear!

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What’s Holding Uber Back

Harvard Business Review

I also love Uber as a student (and teacher) of disruptive innovation theory, because the challenges the transportation company is encountering as it seeks to expand into new cities helpfully illustrate how to assess an idea’s disruptive potential.