Clayton Christensen

HBR Guide to Crafting Your Purpose

January 22, 2022

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: A book review by Bob Morris

April 5, 2020

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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Disruptive innovation: A Primer

March 22, 2020

  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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Upstream: A book review by Bob Morris

March 8, 2020

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: A book review by Bob Morris

July 11, 2019

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: A book review by Bob Morris

November 26, 2018

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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15 famous business books summarized in one sentence each

February 8, 2018

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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“What got you here won’t get you there.” Marshall Goldsmith

April 9, 2017

Goldsmith’s insight serves as the title of one of his most thoughtful books and I presume to add that what got you here won’t even allow you to remain here, no matter whatever and wherever “here” and “there” may be.…

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Bursting the CEO Bubble

March 29, 2017

Here is an excerpt from an article written by Hal Gregersen for Harvard Business Review and the HBR Blog Network. To read the complete article, check out the wealth of free resources, obtain subscription information, and receive HBR email alerts,…

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4 Assumptions About Risk You Shouldn’t Be Making

December 21, 2016

Here is an excerpt from an article written by Scott Anthony for Harvard Business Review and the HBR Blog Network. To read the complete article, check out the wealth of free resources, obtain subscription information, and receive HBR email alerts,…

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