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Clayton Christensen on “The Discipline of Managing Disruption”

First Friday Book Synopsis

Here is a brief excerpt from an interview conducted by Art Kleiner for strategy+business magazine, published by Bain & Company. To Harvard professor Clayton Christensen, coauthor of How Will You Measure Your Life?, a primary task of leadership is asking questions that anticipate great challenges.

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Blogging on Business Update from Bob Morris (Week of 4/22/13)

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Bob''s blog entries "Google’s Greatest Innovation May Be Its Management Practice" "How to Create an Innovation Ecosystem" "How to Expand Your Company’s Innovation Network" "McKinsey & Company: Leading in the 21st century" "The Corner Office" "The Five Stages of Disruption Denial" "To Increase Innovation [comma] Take the Sting Out of Failure" Adam (..)

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Blogging on Business Update from Bob Morris (Week of 4/29/13)

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Bob''s blog entries "A Corporate Climate of Mutual Help": Edward Schein "Creating the Best Workplace on Earth" "Make Your Next Innovation Jam Work" "The Agility Factor" "What successful organizational transformations share: McKinsey Global Survey Results" Alessandro Di Fiore Art Kleiner “Five Factors for Winning” “The Discipline of Managing Disruption”: (..)

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Leaders Can’t Execute Strategy

Great Leadership By Dan

Paul Leinwand, Cesare Mainardi and Art Kleiner stated in their 2015 Harvard Business Review article that only 8% of leaders are effective at both creating good strategies and executing them. Building engagement also requires empowering people to change/innovate their work processes.

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How to Put Leadership Back into Strategy

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[Editor’s Note: We’re delighted to be collaborating with Strategy+Business to bring you interviews with top thought leaders in leadership, innovation, and strategt. This post is adapted from a larger interview conducted by Ken Favaro and Art Kleiner. To read the full article, click here.].

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GE's Eco-Innovation Platform

Harvard Business Review

"We're looking for new models of innovation. Comstock was telling me about the company's growing innovation platform, the GE Ecomagination Challenge which inspires collaboration between GE and entrepreneurs. The Ecomagination Challenge, now in its second year, is GE's foray in to the fast-growing world of "open" innovation.

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Blogging on Business Update from Bob Morris (Week of 12/10/12)

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David Marquet The Dawn of Innovation: The First American Industrial Revolution Charles R. I hope that at least a few of these recent posts will be of interest to you: BOOK REVIEWS Turn the Ship Around!: How to Create Leadership at Every Level L. Morris Selling to China: A Guide to Doing Business in China [.].

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