“creative destruction”

The Neutrality Trap: A book review by Bob Morris

March 5, 2022

The Neutrality Trap: Disrupting and Connecting for Social Change Bernard Mayer and Jacqueline N. Font-Guzmán Wiley (January 2022) “What got you here won’t get you there.”  Marshall Goldsmith My own opinion is that what got you here won’t even allow…

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John Steele Gordon on Early-American Entrepreneurship: Frederick Tudor

April 17, 2018

Quite by accident, I came upon an especially interesting essay by John Steele Gordon (author of An Empire of Wealth: The Epic History of American Economic Power), now featured at the Imprimis website, an online magazine published by Hillsdale College.…

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“The challenge for leaders is how to keep injecting urgency.” Ratan Tata

October 24, 2014

In separate mini-commentaries, former Tata Sons chairman Ratan Tata and SEB chairman Marcus Wallenberg both argue that creative destruction can be taken too far. Both mini-commentaries are part of a series celebrating the 50th anniversary of the McKinsey Quarterly. Tata…

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The End of Normal: A book review by Bob Morris

October 18, 2014

The End of Normal: The Great Crisis and the Future of Growth James K. Galbraith Simon & Schuster (2014) The Great Confusion: Perhaps the problem lies with the economic principles or the way they have been understood As we now…

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Confronting the Pain of Innovation

July 23, 2012

Here is an excerpt from an article written by Michael Schrage and published in Harvard Business Review. To read the complete article, check out all the other resources, sign in or sign up for HBR email alerts, and obtain discount information, please click here.…

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The Right Fight: A book review by Bob Morris

June 26, 2011

The Right Fight: How Great Leaders Use Healthy Conflict to Drive Performance, Innovation, and Value Saj-nicole Joni and Damon Beyer HarperBusiness (2010) As I read the Introduction to this book, I was reminded of two observations by Peter Drucker and…

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Open Innovation: A book review by Bob Morris

June 18, 2011

Open Innovation: The New Imperative for Creating and Profiting from Technology Henry Chesbrough Harvard Business Press (2003) A “new vision” of the innovation process In preparation for my second interview of Henry Chesbrough, I recently re-read his Open Business Models…

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The Innovator’s Solution: A book review by Bob Morris

June 18, 2011

The Innovator’s Solution: Creating and Sustaining Successful Growth Clayton M. Christensen and Michael E. Raynor Harvard Business Press (2003) Note: I read and then reviewed this “business classic” when it was first published and recently re-read it. I am even…

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