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The Top Tips for Building Team Performance

Roundtable Talk

During a recent e-Roundtable , Max Carbone , President of TeamWorks , shared with Executive Roundtable members his top team building tips gleaned from his close to 20 years of working with senior executive teams. Skip to content Home Welcome! Here are some of the highlights. the losers that were at the bottom of the heap). Happy leading!

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When Rising Revenue Spells Trouble

Harvard Business Review

When the industry tipped, it did so with a fury. One way is to pay very careful attention to any development that fits the pattern of disruptive innovation – something that makes it simpler, easier, or more affordable for people to do what used to be complex or costly – emerging in the edges of your industry.

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Create Early Warning Systems to Detect Competitive Threats

Harvard Business Review

One of the key tipping points in a market occurs when a company, in Christensen's language, overshoots a given market tier by providing them performance that they can't use. Companies often miss important shifts because they start not among mainstream customers, but at people at the fringes of the market.

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Uber’s Food Delivery Experiment in Barcelona

Harvard Business Review

One of the most effective ways to launch a successful disruptive innovation in a highly regulated industry is by building your business model in the “other” category. Uber is trying this in other markets too, in cities like Los Angeles.). This relaunch might make Uber a truly potentially disruptive company.

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Morning Advantage: Is Leadership Development a Complete Waste of Time?

Harvard Business Review

Interactive Graphic: Is Your Job Market Growing or Shrinking? While the overall US job market still has a long way to go to get back to its pre-financial-crisis levels, it's not all bad. Management Tip Video: Applying Disruptive Innovation to Your Career Path (HBR.org). INDUSTRIAL STENGTH. The Guardian).

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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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Approach to Innovation

Coaching Tip

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.