Clayton Christensen

“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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An incumbent’s guide to digital disruption

December 16, 2016

Here is a brief excerpt from an article written by Chris Bradley and Clayton O’Toole for the McKinsey Quarterly, published by McKinsey & Company. To read the complete article, check out other resources, learn more about the firm, obtain subscription…

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Jobs to Be Done: A book review by Bob Morris

November 1, 2016

Jobs to Be Done: A Roadmap for Customer-Centered Innovation Stephen Wunker, Jessica Whitman, and David Farber AMACOM (November 2016) Create breakthrough ideas from reimagining problems, not from an incrementally better solution to a well-understood challenge It was Clayton Christensen who…

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The Discipline of Creativity

August 8, 2016

Here is a brief excerpt from an article co-authored by Joseph V. Sinfield, Tim Gustafson and Brian Hindo for the MIT Sloan Management Review. To read the complete article, check out all the other resources, and obtain subscription information, please…

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The Top 50 Management Thinkers (2015)

February 5, 2016

Here is an excerpt from an article by Jeff Schmitt for Poets & Quants. To read the complete article, check out others, and sign up for a free newsletter, please click here. * * * It wasn’t the “Thrilla in…

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How Great Leaders Avoid Burnout

August 20, 2015

Here is a brief excerpt from an article by Ilan Mochari for Inc. magazine. He explains how and why great leaders have overcome adversity on their own, through mental toughness, with no help — and that’s how anyone else can…

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Randy Pennington on “Three truths about disruption”

July 22, 2015

Disruptive innovation, a term of art coined by Clayton Christensen, describes a process by which a product or service takes root initially in simple applications at the bottom of a market and then relentlessly moves up market, eventually displacing established…

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Hal Gregersen on how to think and act to make our world a better, more creative place

June 23, 2015

A cutting-edge innovation and leadership guru, co-author of The Innovator’s DNA: Mastering the Five Skills of Disruptive Innovators, and Executive Director of the MIT Leadership Center, Hal Gregersen challenges organizations and individuals to question the way we think and act…

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