Lead on Purpose

MAY 4, 2013

I found two recent articles about Clayton Christensen that have increased my understanding about leadership: The first is published in the BYU Magazine’s Spring 2013 edition. (As According to Christensen, you keep nimble and respond to up-and-coming innovations at the bottom of the market. That’s how you make lasting change. —.

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Tanveer Naseer

JANUARY 23, 2018

So to get the most out of innovation processes such as design thinking, truly creative leaders also need to master the social dynamics of… [wait for the punchline}…humor! But in the world of leadership, humor has typically been typecast as a manifestation of individual personalities and thereby a spontaneous and non-replicable activity.

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Marshall Goldsmith

NOVEMBER 9, 2016

Given the overwhelmingly positive response I have received for this project, I have decided to expand the program from 15 to 100 coaches! Herminia Ibarra – Thinkers 50 #8 Management Thinker 2015, #1 Leadership Thinker 2013, Professor at INSEAD, best-selling author Working Identity: Unconventional Strategies for Reinventing Your Career.

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N2Growth Blog

APRIL 29, 2021

When put to work, new technologies create many positive ripple effects on the global market, spawning some of today’s most exciting new businesses, even creating whole new industries and movements around them. Still, all of them take belief, courage, dedication, optimism, and leadership with a strong vision, especially in the face of peril.

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Marshall Goldsmith

JUNE 28, 2017

I was amazed when more than 12,000 people applied for the 15 positions. Whitney Johnson – Thinkers 50 award-winning Management Thinker 2015-17, Disruptive Innovation expert, author Disrupt Yourself: Putting the Power of Disruptive Innovation to Work. I wrote “great teachers” and “very generous.”

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Eric Jacobson

OCTOBER 13, 2020

Breakthrough ideas and disruptive innovation stem from a deep understanding of the customer. When it comes to innovation, culture is more important than strategy. By embedding innovation in your organizational culture, you can set yourself up for future wins.

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Eric Jacobson

MARCH 5, 2020

Breakthrough ideas and disruptive innovation stem from a deep understanding of the customer. When it comes to innovation, culture is more important than strategy. By embedding innovation in your organizational culture, you can set yourself up for future wins.

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Handbook Innovation Tactics Open-book 65

LDRLB

APRIL 27, 2020

And while a strong sense of working for a positive outcome or cause is important, many organizations feel like re-writing the mission statement will do the trick. For many years, The Hershey Company had a simple but meaningless mission statement: undisputed marketplace leadership. They’ll tell you the same thing. “We’re

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N2Growth Blog

OCTOBER 10, 2010

Best, Leadership Freak, Dan Rockell pastortom2022 Hello Mike, another great post and this one, like others you write, makes us think. Dan [link] Liz Strauss Mike, You're always pointing to game changing ideas and true insights into how leadership can affect growth. It only makes your current game better.

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LDRLB

APRIL 27, 2020

And while a strong sense of working for a positive outcome or cause is important, many organizations feel like re-writing the mission statement will do the trick. For many years, The Hershey Company had a simple but meaningless mission statement: undisputed marketplace leadership. They’ll tell you the same thing. “We’re

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Mission Statement Organization Company Business Model 78

Marshall Goldsmith

FEBRUARY 8, 2018

Jim Kim (President of the World Bank), Peter Drucker (founder of modern management), Paul Hersey (noted author, teacher, and personal mentor of mine), and Warren Bennis (one of the world’s greatest leadership thinkers of his time). Has been recognized as the World’s #1 Leadership Thinker. Author of two best-selling leadership books.

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LDRLB

MAY 26, 2014

Paul Nunes and I have known each other for many years, and we’ve both been writing about the subject of disruptive innovation from different vantage points and different angles. That’s not our market position, so we don’t need to worry about it. It’s not generally a technology problem; it’s a leadership problem.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 16, 2017

Tesla clearly doesn’t qualify under the traditional definition of a disruptive innovation. Tesla is also not comparable to Netflix, another frequently-cited example of a disruptive innovator. If that potential isn’t realized, the money will quickly dry up.

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Supply Chain Automotive Disruptive Innovation Transportation 12

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 6, 2015

As part of this process, we formally surveyed more than 150 executives; the sample represented a broad cross-section of health care, with respondents serving in leadership roles at organizations as diverse as physician practices, hospitalist staffing agencies and large health systems.

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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.” Since 2011 the share price has more than doubled.

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LDRLB

FEBRUARY 11, 2013

Big visions, carefully crafted strategies, and detailed plans are signs of great leadership. Could we be ignoring the most fundamental tool that anyone can use to create disruptive innovation and change? But early on, CEO Scott Cook and his leadership team kept hearing that small businesses were using the product.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 17, 2012

What actually concerns me — and I hope you as well — is that in his canon of leadership books there are no women's voices, at least not in the top 11 that he relies on and that inspire him to greatness. Perhaps this explains why so few of our "Lists on Leadership" include the voices of women. So does leadership.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 27, 2011

By connecting the unconnected — 360 leadership assessments and help wanted ads — Symanowitz forged an online business that sprouted in Africa and now grows globally. Innovators (of new businesses, products, and processes) spend almost 50% more time trying to think different compared to non-innovators. Will you?

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 11, 2014

Andrea Ovans Unsolid Ground Lessons from a Drowning Nation Washington Post On Leadership Executives in struggling industries sometimes find themselves in the unenviable position of having to plan for the end of a company. BONUS BITS Countering Intuition Has ''Disruptive Innovation'' Run Its Course?

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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.

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Leading Blog

JANUARY 31, 2015

Why Culture and Leadership Matter for Disruptive Innovation by James daSilva via @SBLeaders. From @JohnBaldoni Presence : Your Key to Stronger And Bolder Leadership. 10 Winston Churchill Leadership Lessons by @JamesStrock. Why We Fail At Leadership by @TanveerNaseer. Stanford Graduate School of Business.

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Emotional Intelligence Disruptive Innovation Guidelines Learning-by-Doing 150

Harvard Business Review

JULY 19, 2013

Step 3: As disruptive innovators, from Albert Einstein to Jack Dorsey, put it, "Question everything!" Questions alone might be clever, but as Jeff Dyer, Clayton Christensen, and I found in our research behind The Innovator''s DNA , they rarely produce positive impacts. It makes the quest much more intriguing.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 2, 2018

While the three centers have quite different structures and operations, in our research and experience we found that they share six primary challenges: Establishing strategies for new project selection: Centers struggle to identify and rank problems, ideas or projects that will likely translate to positive health and system outcomes.

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Health Care Innovation Mayo Stage-Gate 11

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 27, 2017

Toward a New Leadership Agenda. Providing access to such goods is often a consequence of competitive business activity and disruptive innovation, which starts with someone creating a simpler, more affordable version of a product. Business needs to remain deeply embedded in society to positively affect it.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 5, 2012

So resources shore up the position of businesses that are starting to fade, eking out a little more time for the managers in charge. then reorganized because this left them vulnerable to disruptive innovation. This creates two problems: first, valuable assets are being tied up in a business that doesn't represent the future.

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Process Innovation Diversity Budgeting 16

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 12, 2014

You’re witnessing creative destruction and disruptive innovation at work. So congratulations graduates – as you move forward in your careers, you’ll be face to face with innovation that’s relentless. You, by virtue of your degree and title, will have positional authority. But I implore you to use that position sparingly.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 21, 2010

s position as a global economic leader has been based on one thing more than anything else: its ability to innovate. Instead, it's environmental — and much of the blame rests at the feet of the country's political leadership. And asking them to start hiring misses the point. Obama is talking to the wrong people.

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Politics Innovation Engineering Entrepreneur 14

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 17, 2012

In the decades that followed Kodak established a dominant position in the lucrative film business, with its "you push a button, we do the rest" slogan demonstrating its commitment to making photography accessible to the masses. In the 20th century, Kodak was truly one of the world's powerhouses.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 19, 2012

Each of these firms is struggling to respond to and lead disruption in their industries. Nokia and RIM have watched as Apple and Android have wiped away their leading position; each attempted to respond, but neither could execute. The question though is, why didn't they move earlier? This didn't work well.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 21, 2016

First, the role must be positioned correctly, at the appropriate level in the organization, with sufficient scope, influence and sponsorship to make change happen. These executives also score highly in their social adeptness, bold leadership, and determination. But there are two inherent challenges with bringing in a catalyst.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 29, 2018

For the latter, we measured incumbents’ operational efficiency, commitment to innovation, and defenses against attack. Ultimately, Accenture’s Disruptability Index positioned 20 industry sectors — and 98 segments within those sectors — against those two axes.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 19, 2012

Each of these firms is struggling to respond to and lead disruption in their industries. Nokia and RIM have watched as Apple and Android have wiped away their leading position; each attempted to respond, but neither could execute. The question though is, why didn't they move earlier? This didn't work well.

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Short-term Long-term Franchising Maturity 11

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 24, 2011

The core challenge of leadership, Davis argues, is to "find the revolution before it finds you." It now has 183 branches stretching from San Francisco to Seattle, assets of $11 billion, and a unique strategy that positions Umpqua as a lifestyle brand rather than as just another local bank.

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Banking Case Study Brand Industry 15

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 5, 2015

The tension between human-driven and technology-driven capabilities is often miscast, positioning automation as a threat to the people that drive our industry. It is these tensions that now shape the most important considerations for advertisers, their agencies, and the media companies that convene audiences at scale. Humans and Automation.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 30, 2017

For example, interviews with managers of established technology hardware firms showed that their resource-allocation processes favored sustaining innovations (those that had high margins and targeted large, well-known markets and customers) over disruptive innovations (those that had yet to generate hard evidence on their benefits).

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 25, 2015

But something strange happened when my publisher, Bibliomotion, presented me with 11 possible Audible narrators for my second business book, Disrupt Yourself: Putting the Power of Disruptive Innovation to Work. My knee-jerk response was to choose a man. Research and experience offer an explanation. James Earl Jones, anyone?)

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 6, 2014

While active questioning fosters creative leadership, it does not guarantee creative organizations as a whole. Senior leaders must encourage and create a safe innovation space in order for tomorrow’s decision-makers to carry this imaginative spirit throughout the lifetime of the company. Creating a Question-Centric Culture.

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