Harvard Business Review

MARCH 7, 2012

Disruptive innovators ask the right questions, observe the world like anthropologists, network for novel ideas, and experiment to make things work. For a more detailed look at these skills, see The Innovator's DNA ). Disruptive innovators approach networking in a unique way. Here's how: Step 1.

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Tanveer Naseer

NOVEMBER 5, 2013

At best, leadership development is a fun day out, at worst it is a gut wrenching, annoying exercise that leaves you cringing as someone teaches you to suck eggs. And it is managers’ ability to innovate, collaborate and adapt to a constantly changing environment that are the leadership skills we most need to develop.

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Tanveer Naseer

JANUARY 23, 2018

We have witnessed that skilled leaders, those we call “Stand-Up Strategists”, understand the utility of humor to boost innovation. Lilli Marten Christ is an energetic development manager who works for German automotive firm Daimler AG in China, and opens each of her weekly team meetings with a joke or a riddle.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 20, 2011

The vast, vast majority of these are for software development of one sort or another to support the streaming business. On top of the technical skills, Netflix is building an organization tuned to the needs of a disruptive environment.

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Lead Change Blog

AUGUST 18, 2015

They operate more as a partnership—a confederation of equals with different skills and talents but a shared calling and a collective zeal to see it through. Wise leaders know that success in the future will not come from incremental improvement but rather through disruptive innovation. Pursuit of Purpose. Champion Diversity.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 28, 2016

During the last five years of my corporate management career, I had a great deal of leadership development. It’s hard to find precise spending data on the amounts invested in management training (for supervisors and middle managers) and leadership development (for senior executives). Leadership development is sexier.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 22, 2013

With this in mind, we started to document and study the best-in-class skills of our client companies and their intrapreneurs. Here are five power skills we discovered to help you find uncontested space. Develop Creative Discontent. Teach these five power skills to the leaders and top talent in your organization.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 18, 2015

Christensen and two co-authors revisit where disruption theory stands today in a new HBR article, “What Is Disruptive Innovation?” Finally, fringe markets like hackers or students can put up with the limitations that often characterize early versions of disruptive ideas.

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N2Growth Blog

OCTOBER 10, 2010

Incremental improvements are good business, while disruptive innovation is great business – a game changer. Disruptive innovation is the game changer that shatters the status quo. If I read your definition correctly, you are limiting game-changers to positive developments or innovations.

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LDRLB

JANUARY 13, 2014

” We developed a partnership with the Design Management Institute who helped us target about 15 different programs or projects that had a really strong design focus but weren’t the traditional product management or product development stories. DAVID: I think that’s an interesting distinction.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 2, 2011

Almost every industry began with services and products that were so complicated and expensive to provide that only people with a lot of skill and a lot of money could participate. The transformational force that has brought affordability and accessibility to other industries is disruptive innovation.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 22, 2011

I had worked for over a decade to develop relationships with Latin American business leaders, several of whom were on Forbes' billionaire list. Six years into my mid-career move, here are some lessons learned from my personal disruptive trajectory: If it feels scary and lonely, you're probably on the right track.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 22, 2011

Learn how to master the art of the performance review: define job responsibilities, set goals, assess performance, provide recognition, and create development plans. The Innovator's DNA: Mastering the Five Skills of Disruptive Innovators. By Dick Grote. and Are Ready to Do It Again. By Nicholas Dunbar.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 8, 2014

Thus, a degree from a top university has been seen to contain crucial information about a person’s skills, networks, and work habits. Higher education, however, is in the midst of dramatic, disruptive change. It is, to use the language of innovation theorists and practitioners, being unbundled.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 26, 2012

".most often the very skills that propel an organization to succeed in sustaining circumstances systematically bungle the best ideas for disruptive growth. An organization's capabilities become its disabilities when disruption is afoot." – Clayton Christensen, The Innovator's Solution. He was right.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 31, 2014

One of the clearest signs of an opportunity for innovation is someone demonstrating that a problem is important to her by spending time or money trying to solve it and expressing frustration (either vocally or visibly) because existing solutions fall short. Identifying the Threat of Disruption. Disruptive innovation Strategy'

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 2, 2013

The gap between Hyperloop and the state of infrastructure in the vast majority of developing countries is a demonstration of what economist William Janeway calls the Two Innovation Economies. The frontier economy has unimaginable appeal to the skilled engineers and savvy entrepreneurs.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 9, 2011

Leaders at companies with high innovation premiums, in fact, landed at about the 88th percentile on our Innovator's DNA assessment, which measures the five skills of disruptive innovators: questioning, observing, networking, experimenting, and associational thinking. That's what an innovative leader does.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 19, 2016

CEOs should actively manage five specific tensions in today’s complex global business environment: Disruptive innovation versus leveraging the company’s core strengths. When confronted with disruptive technologies, many companies fail to align digital strategies with their core strategies.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 24, 2021

Two promising new models blend skills training and work experience.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 3, 2015

Or, if everyone has a linear, analytical, and planned approach to work and dislikes disruption, innovative new product development would be impossible. Because work styles are fairly ingrained, recruitment, not development, is the best way to build diversity in a group. Observe your team members.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 30, 2018

” To start, the Pathbuilder team undertook establishing a new company purpose and values along with the design of a group-wide process for how to implement disruptive innovations and digitalization. Think of it as a “shadow cabinet.” In addition, participants came from all hierarchical levels of the organization.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 29, 2012

Part of the issue here is lumping together incremental innovation with disruptive innovation. Most innovation is the former, and is often little more than the clever replication or reproduction of what were once breakthrough, thus disruptive, innovations.

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Coaching Tip

APRIL 18, 2017

Today's conventional wisdom says to survive, companies must move beyond incremental innovation and invest in radical, disruptive innovation. In "THE POWER OF LITTLE IDEAS" , Wharton professor David Robertson examines an approach to innovation; one that is neither incremental nor disruptive.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 27, 2017

In the developed world, we enjoy better medicines, connectivity, and mobility than most of us could have imagined even 20 years ago. The effects of technology on humans depends on how we choose to develop and use it. But it takes too long for new work skills to become codified and for the education system to deliver them.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 18, 2013

Setting up small, high-performing virtual teams has enormous potential for companies to increase sales, penetrate new markets, improve business processes and come up with the next generation of disruptive innovations. He says it takes entrepreneurial spirit and initiative as well as technical skills to thrive as a remote worker.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 27, 2011

His original business, GetAGreatBoss.com , lets great managers showcase their skills to attract talent and boost their own careers by conducting a 360 review of the manager by his or her staff, and if the results are favorable, he links the results to job ads that the boss is trying to fill, making these job ads far more appealing.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 9, 2012

It was called "Equal Opportunity for Women Is Smart Business" but it might just as easily have been called "Management Development for Women Is Just Management Development (but with women in it)." Kept in 'women-type' jobs, they have not efficiently used their aptitudes, intelligence, education, and skills. More >>.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 9, 2015

Business law Regulation Disruptive innovation Growth strategy Transportation' The fact that we’re all somewhat surprised by this new conciliatory stance of theirs—even wondering if it was really necessary—suggests that they’ve likely gotten the timing about right.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 15, 2013

But the ways people''s knowledge, skills and expertise get plugged into the workplace has been. It''s not that troubled economies and disruptive innovations inherently shed more jobs than they create; it''s that ongoing global restructuring of markets makes temporary and/or part-time employment more attractive for more organizations.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 6, 2016

But typical of disruptive transformation in other industries, the U.S. legal system is already having trouble keeping up with the pace of developments in transportation. “The city is currently soliciting proposals from tech companies to test and develop driverless car and roadside sensor technology.” traffic deaths.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 18, 2014

Typically, resources that satisfy these conditions are capabilities or know-how that have been developed over time and are hard to transfer or document. Indeed, if you have multiple resources, the RBV implies that you should develop a strategy to build and exploit all these resources. So maybe there is a better theory of strategy?

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 6, 2013

But when disruptive innovation threatens to breach a moat, high-margin companies usually find themselves especially ill-prepared to fight back. It''s partly because managers of well-moated companies tend to turn complacent — or just don''t need much skill to run such a business in the first place.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 28, 2015

Organizations develop processes through repeated problem solving. The latter are troublesome because the knowledge base and skills required to operate in the new realm are so fundamentally different. Robotics is a good example: It’s obvious that it can increase productivity, but it takes some know-how to put robots to work.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 20, 2016

It’s a balancing act that requires a unique mindset, a particular set of skills and tools, and a specific strategy. Continuously reinventing your organization doesn’t mean you have to start from scratch with each new innovation. Futurists call them “weak signals.” In Box 3, you create the future.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 26, 2011

The skills required to play hockey are very different from those required to play basketball. His skills and work ethic suggest that it would be reasonable to assume he could have been a world-class ice hockey player if he had dedicated himself to the sport as a youth. Innovation muscles can be built. That's no dig on James.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 29, 2010

I argued in that post that the increasing ease of innovation meant that entrepreneurs were destined to become commodities. All things being equal, of course, you'd rather have a skilled entrepreneur than an unskilled one. That point led to spirited discussion with my VC friends.

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