Center for Creative Leadership

AUGUST 24, 2020

When you think about it, the model of disruptive innovation is the exception, not the rule. Many leaders associate the term “innovation” with game-changing disruptions of existing industries or the creation of entirely new ones, like the way Apple’s iTunes helped create a whole new way to sell and distribute music.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 30, 2017

Finally, health care, which has been largely immune to the forces of disruptive innovation , is beginning to change. Less than 1% of those investments have focused on helping consumers to play a more active role in managing their own health, an area ripe for disruptive approaches. jennifer maravillas for hbr.

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Marshall Goldsmith

FEBRUARY 8, 2018

Thinkers50 – World’s Most Influential Management Thinkers. Called ‘The Academy Awards of Leadership’ by the Economist, Thinkers50 is the world’s most reliable resource for identifying, ranking and sharing the leading management ideas of our age. Whitney Johnson – Author of the critically acclaimed: Disrupt Yourself.

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Roundtable Talk

JUNE 22, 2010

Opening the discussion to group, depending on the players, can delay or stall the planning process. With you action plan in hand, it’s now up to you as the team lead to champion the team forward.

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Tips Team Bottom-up Teamwork 34

Harvard Business Review

JULY 4, 2014

LearnVest clients have access to a dedicated certified financial planner who can help them better manage their finances and achieve their financial goals, including budget planning, loan optimization, and investment allocation advice. Customers also want insurance providers to not only insure risk, but to help them manage risk.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 9, 2011

Official support and encouragement for disruptive businesses would allow innovators to create unusual and long-term value for their companies. Promoting dynamism and consumption is very costly to its short-term goals. In the United States, disruptive innovation has harmed a few but benefited many.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 15, 2017

Unlike startups that get to shape culture from scratch, established companies must transform existing norms, values, and assumptions in ways that inspire everyone to innovate — not just at the top of the organization, but at all levels. creating new digital customer experiences) and “disruptive innovation” (e.g.,

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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 Robert Kaplan.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 16, 2018

As the new general manager of the Global Research & Innovative Technology Center (GRIT) at Hitachi Metals, Kenichi Inoue is tasked with creating an updated framework for research and development in advanced materials, helping his organization make the shift to a new approach to engineering and innovation in a disrupted world.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 27, 2010

What is disruptive innovation? An innovation that transforms a market or creates a new one through simplicity, convenience, affordability or accessibility. What is the best way to disrupt a market? How should I form and manage innovation teams? What is in a good innovation strategy?

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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. Related articles.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 9, 2017

See More Videos > See More Videos > As Teresa Amabile and Mukti Khaire explain , “One doesn’t manage creativity. One manages for creativity.” Manage this tension by encouraging people to move out of their comfort zones and toward the center of the spectrum. Strike a balance between art and commerce.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 4, 2014

LearnVest clients have access to a dedicated certified financial planner who can help them better manage their finances and achieve their financial goals, including budget planning, loan optimization, and investment allocation advice. Customers also want insurance providers to not only insure risk, but to help them manage risk.

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Insurance Disruptive Innovation Industry Innovation 8

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. She will focus like a laser on achieving any stated goal or outcome and will ensure that you stay on budget. For your logical, analytical colleague, ask: What is your goal?

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 30, 2018

Instead, they sought to reenergize and leverage their own people, but, Karvinen explained, “We also did not just want to handpick the usual senior managers we had always worked with before, because we knew that, in order to drive the transformation of the company, we needed new and fresh perspectives.”

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 10, 2011

There is still a debate in strategy circles about whether it is better to be the first mover or a fast follower, and whether missing out on the first wave of disruptive innovation means falling behind forever. But one thing is certain: Learning from a missed opportunity and then innovating beyond it helps anyone get back in the game.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 21, 2012

Apple was the only incumbent in this period to grow by creating new markets repeatedly through disruptive innovation. This approach, too, is challenging: just 6% of the companies we analyzed managed to innovate at scale consistently through the period. What does it take to innovate at scale?

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 3, 2012

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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Harvard Business Review

MAY 6, 2013

I recently employed this principle with a large asset management firm. The results were dramatic: the following year, the company reached its annual sales goals three months into its fiscal year. However, management was not convinced. Creativity Disruptive innovation Organizational culture'

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 19, 2015

The new products promise to store locally sourced energy and manage its dispatch, helping to mitigate one of the major shortcomings of harvesting power from the sun: the intermittency challenge (in other words, you need the sun to shine). Tesla is clearly demonstrating systems thinking, which is the first precondition.

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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. The goal was to optimize decision-making all along the value chain and boost earnings by tens of millions of dollars.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 17, 2012

In Mindset , psychologist Carol Dweck writes: "it isn't just our abilities and talent that bring our success — but whether we approach our goals with a fixed or growth mindset." Whether disruptive innovation involves a product, service, company, or especially, an individual, Christensen provides a robust theory for learning how to lead.

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Leading Blog

JANUARY 31, 2015

Why Culture and Leadership Matter for Disruptive Innovation by James daSilva via @SBLeaders. The Small Steps That Have a Big Impact on Achieving Goals by @Katy_Milkman via @whartonknows. Why We Need a Management Shift by @VlatkaHlupic. From @JohnBaldoni Presence : Your Key to Stronger And Bolder Leadership.

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Emotional Intelligence Disruptive Innovation Guidelines Learning-by-Doing 150

Harvard Business Review

MAY 30, 2013

A good management team will be dedicated to creating product market fit, otherwise the business will flounder. Investors are involved for the long haul, understanding that startup managers will have to experiment and fail along the way to a successful IPO. Patient capital. Maximize autonomy.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 12, 2016

First impressions matter so much because they happen fast, and they are stubborn , says Whitney Johnson , the author of Disrupt Yourself: Putting the Power of Disruptive Innovation to Work. If, for instance, colleagues say you are a great people manager, seek out metrics to support that idea. What the Experts Say.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 19, 2012

We addressed the question of how leaders turn great invention into business innovation that generates organic revenue growth. How can you adapt management systems that are used to managing short-term performance to become capable of supporting a "test and learn" approach to innovation? This didn't work well.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 24, 2011

Sculley flipped these priorities to where the goal was to make money. Anyone familiar with Professor Christensen's work will quickly recognize the same causal mechanism at the heart of the Innovator's Dilemma: the pursuit of profit. A string of professional managers had led the company straight off the edge of that cliff.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 19, 2012

We addressed the question of how leaders turn great invention into business innovation that generates organic revenue growth. How can you adapt management systems that are used to managing short-term performance to become capable of supporting a "test and learn" approach to innovation? This didn't work well.

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Short-term Long-term Franchising Maturity 10

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 8, 2015

It has also abandoned other initiatives, and that’s equally important in managing innovation in a corporate context. Some great business ideas don’t belong in your company, and free-range innovation often drives value-destroying diversification in corporations.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 23, 2011

Unfortunately, many companies starting their innovation journey make just this mistake by overreaching in their initial efforts. I always get worried when I see an "innovation newbie" with a large team, big budget, and pie-in-the-sky goals.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 31, 2014

Women represent 37% of the Korean workforce, but only 17% of managers (though, in a positive step, Samsung recently promoted 15 women to the executive level). One of Cho''s biggest goals is to prevent mothers from dropping out of the workforce. Jeong recently started a flexible management position at one shop. "I

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 30, 2017

A middle manager at a global technology organization — let’s call her “Denise” — had a problem. She’d come up with the idea of revamping the company’s inventory management approach by networking together “sleeping” resources. How to Manage a Toxic Employee. Office Politics.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 8, 2014

The goal of strategy is profitable growth, meaning economic value above the firm’s cost of capital. Hence, the customer-selection criteria of sales managers, and call patterns of sales reps, directly impact the first value-creation lever: which projects the firm invests in. But consider the basics.

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Debt to Equity Ratio Cost of Capital Strategy Incentives 10

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 20, 2013

Measurement risk: Fail to measure the real goal of innovation, focus on project progress rather than value created and turning management measures into goals instigating aberrant behavior. IT creates risk confusing leadership, governance, and managing. Netflix is another example of disruptive innovation.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 6, 2014

Among these interviews was Brad Smith , president and CEO of Intuit, who shared how he searches for “golden questions” to help uncover a new Grand Challenge—what he defines as “a goal that causes us to step back and think completely different in order to achieve it.”. Disruptive innovation Leadership Organizational culture'

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 20, 2013

A member of the Forum for Growth and Innovation, a Harvard Business School think tank developing and refining theory around disruptive innovation. They''re the co-founders and managing partners of Isis Associates and authors of Own the Room: Discover Your Signature Voice to Master Your Leadership Presence.

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Advice Learning-by-Doing Career Open-book 12

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 15, 2013

Companies typically spend a lot of time developing financial forecasts of proposed innovations and debating the implications of their analysis. Instead, give your innovators general financial goals. Or explicitly allow the team to accept lower gross margins in a deliberate effort to pursue disruptive innovation.

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