Larry Downes

Every Company Needs a Political Strategy Today

November 17, 2022

Here is an excerpt from an article by Blair Levin and Larry Downes for the MIT Sloan Management Review. To read the complete article, check out others, and obtain subscription information, please click here. Credit: Alex Nabaum/theispot.com * * *…

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Finding Your Company’s Second Act

February 21, 2022

Here is an excerpt from an article written by Larry Downes and Paul Nunes 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…

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Monopolies & Tech Giants: Insights from HBR: A book review by Bob Morris

November 27, 2021

Monopolies & Tech Giants: Insights You Need from Harvard Business Review Various Contributors Harvard Business Review Press (April 2020) How those threatened by tech “giants” can compete with them in a VUCA marketplace This is one of the first volumes…

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The Year in Tech 2022: A book review by Bob Morris

November 9, 2021

The Year in Tech 2022: The Insights You Need from Harvard Business Review (HBR Insights Series) Various Contributors in Collaboration with HBR Editors Harvard Business Review Press (October 2021) “Big Bang Disruptions”: A paradigm for all seasons This is the…

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Pivot to the Future: A book Review by Bob Morris

October 15, 2021

Pivot to the Future: Discovering Value and Creating Growth in a Disrupted World Omar Abbosh, Paul Nunes, and Larry Downes PublicAffairs (April 2019) How to “find your brick and then keep enhancing it” I reviewed this book when it was…

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Pivot to the Future: A book review by Bob Morris

May 1, 2019

Pivot to the Future: Discovering Value and Creating Growth in a Disrupted World Omar Abbosh, Paul Nunes, and Larry Downes PublicAffairs (April 2019) How to “find your brick and then keep enhancing it” According to Omar Abbosh, Paul Nunes, and…

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The New Killer Apps: A book review by Bob Morris

February 2, 2014

The New Killer Apps: How Large Companies Can Out-Innovate Start-Ups Chunka Mui and Paul Carroll Cornerloft Press (2013) How your organization can get its share of $36 trillion of “reimagination” As I began to read this book, I was again…

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Big Bang Disruption: A book review by Bob Morris

January 13, 2014

Big Bang Disruption: Business Survival in the Age of Constant Innovation Larry Downes and Paul Nunes Portfolio/The Penguin Group (2014) About these highly disruptive innovations: There’s some really great news and there’s also some really terrible news…. Those who have…

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Unleashing the Killer App: A book review by Bob Morris

July 1, 2011

Unleashing the Killer App: Digital Strategies for Market Dominance Larry Downes and Chunka Mui Harvard Business Press (1998) In this book, Downes and Mui provide a brilliant analysis of how “a new good or service that establishes an entirely new…

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The Laws of Disruption: A book review by Bob Morris

July 1, 2011

The Laws of Disruption: Harnessing the New Forces That Givern Life and Business in the Digital Age Larry Downes Basic Books (2009) In The Laws of Disruption, Downes asserts that there are three laws of digital life. Together, they comprise…

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