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Meet My Next Group of Coaches!

Marshall Goldsmith

Whitney Johnson – Thinkers 50 award-winning Management Thinker 2015-17, Disruptive Innovation expert, author Disrupt Yourself: Putting the Power of Disruptive Innovation to Work. Mike Sursock – Head of Operations Group at Baring Private Equity Asia. Kevin Koch – President and CEO of Koch, Inc.,

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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. a holding company that operates seven distinct business. Operations Group Baring Private Equity.

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The Right and Wrong Ways to Regulate Self-Driving Cars

Harvard Business Review

While cars have been getting smarter and smarter, the removal of human operators is what will dramatically change the law. From the beginning, self-driving vehicles have proven to be better drivers than most human operators, since software is able to learn as it goes. That’s where the real disruptive innovation will come from.

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Remembering Ronald Coase

Harvard Business Review

But I''ve just finished work on a new book with Paul Nunes on the new age of disruptive innovation (based on our March 2013 HBR article, " Big Bang Disruption "). If not his insights, then certainly his work ethic. Operations Research Strategy' As for sudden, it did feel so to me. I haven''t actually seen Prof.

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LeBron on Ice, or the Fallacy of the Corporate Superstar

Harvard Business Review

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. But a range of research has shown how successful entrepreneurs generally act differently from successful operators.*. That's no dig on James.

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How Merck Is Trying to Keep Disrupters at Bay

Harvard Business Review

Within EB, Merck first created a Global Health Innovation Fund and then a Healthcare Services and Solution unit to identify, develop, and operate nascent opportunities that fit that thesis. To do that, Merck formed a Strategy & Innovation Council with people from across the company. Experimentation is vital.