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Why the X Games Won’t Dethrone the Olympics

Harvard Business Review

A “ new model for how winter sports are done” that “feeds an audience hunger for life-treating daredevilry” and drives “ high market penetration and. The reason why serves as a good reminder of how to assess the full impact of a potentially disruptive innovation. The process of disruption follows a predictable pattern.

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Throw Your Life a Curve

Harvard Business Review

According to Méndez-García, one of the best models for making sense of a non-linear world is the S-curve , the model we have used to understand the diffusion of disruptive innovations, and which he and I speculate can be used to understand personal disruption — the necessary pivots in our own career paths.

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Which Management Style Will China Adopt?

Harvard Business Review

Up to this point, China’s economic development has been focused on cost competitiveness and the adoption of foreign-developed technologies and innovations. It has to develop domestic consumer markets and orient its production towards them. Its global impact has been due mainly to its massive scale.

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How Likely Is Your Industry to Be Disrupted? This 2×2 Matrix Will Tell You

Harvard Business Review

To help business leaders better understand industry disruption, we developed an index that measures an industry’s current level of disruption as well as its susceptibility to future disruption. And with wisdom about its predictability comes opportunity. Another is by taking underused assets and monetizing them.