Clayton Christensen
What Do You Really Stand For? The One Question That Will Transform Your Work and Life Paul Ingram Harvard Business Review Press (April 2026) “Your character is what you really are, while your reputation is merely what others think you…
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The Purpose Code: How to Unlock Meaning, Maximize Happiness, and Leave a Lasting Legacy Jordan Grumet Harriman House (January 2025) Here is a series of self-helpful prescriptions Long ago, I concluded that it is very difficult — if not impossible…
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New Happy: Getting Happiness Right in a World That’s Got It Wrong Stephanie Harrison A Tarcher-Perigee Book/An Imprint of Penguin Random House (May 2024) How to find lasting happiness According to Stephanie Harrison, it’s time to replace…
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HBR Guide to Crafting Your Purpose John Coleman Harvard Business Review Press (January 2022) How to craft a life and a career guided, informed, and enriched by purpose This one of very few single-author volumes in HBR Guide to…. series,…
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Cracking the Leadership Code: Three Secrets to Building Strong Leaders Alain Hunkins Wiley (March 2020) “Your title identies you as a manager; your people make you a leader.” Donna Dubinsky Although Amazon now offers more than 100,000 books on leadership,…
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Upstream: The Quest to Solve Problems Before They Happen Dan Heath Avid Reader Press/An imprint of Simon & Schuster (March 2020) Never more true than it is today: “A stitch in time….” I have read and reviewed four bestsellers co-authored…
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HBR’s 10 Must Reads for CEOs Various Contributors Harvard Business Review Press (2017) Cutting-edge insights for those who are a CEO or aspire to become one This is one in a series of volumes that anthologizes what the editors of…
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Retail Disruptors: The Spectacular Rise and Impact of the Hard Discounters Jan-Benedict Steenkamp with Laurens Sloot KoganPage (October 2018) With Laurens Sloot, Jan-Benedict Steenkamp lifts “the veil of secrecy covering hard discounters” During an interview of Clayton Christensen, I asked…
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Looking for an effective way to pick up a useful business book to read? This this was prepared by Max Nisen for Business Insider won’t be a waste of time. Each of the famous and influential business books is described…
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Disruptive innovation: A Primer
In an article for HBR co-authored with Joseph Bower, “Disruptive Technologies: Catching the Wave” (January/February 1995), Clayton Christensen introduces the concept of disruptive innovation, one that creates a new market and value network and eventually disrupts an existing market…
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