Clayton Christensen

3 tips for TED speakers (and other talkers)

November 25, 2013

Here is a brief article by Daniel Pink for LinkedIn PULSE: The news and insights you need to know in which he offers some observations about TED an then some advice to those who aspire to present a TED program.…

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Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos Had His Top Execs Read These Three Books

October 3, 2013

Jon Fortt conducted a rare interview of Jeff Bezos, one that was videotaped and featured by LinkedIn. Here is Fortt’s introduction. To watch the video of the interview, please click here. Photo: Steve Jurvetson/Flickr * * * At the beginning…

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What You’re Really Meant to Do: A book review by Bob Morris

May 24, 2013

What You’re Really Meant to Do: A Roadmap for Reaching Your Unique Potential Robert Steven Kaplan Harvard Business Review Press (2013) To paraphrase Walt Whitman, “We are large, we contain multitudes.” Self-improvement initiatives or, if you prefer, self-fulfillment or self-actualization…

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Clayton Christensen on “The Discipline of Managing Disruption”

May 1, 2013

To Harvard professor Clayton Christensen, coauthor of How Will You Measure Your Life?, a primary task of leadership is asking questions that anticipate great challenges. Here is a brief excerpt from an interview conducted by Art Kleiner for strategy+business magazine,…

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Whitney Johnson on “Why Innovators Love Constraints”

February 13, 2013

Here is an excerpt from an article written by Whitney Johnson for Harvard Business Review and the HBR Blog Network. To read the complete article, check out the wealth of free resources, and sign up for a subscription to HBR…

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Scott Anthony on How to Create Early Warning Systems to Detect Competitive Threats

September 19, 2012

Here is an excerpt from an article written by Scott Anthony for the Harvard Business Review blog. To read the complete article, check out the wealth of free resources, and sign up for a subscription to HBR email alerts, please click here. *     *   …

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Harvard Business Review on Advancing Your Career: A book review by Bob Morris

September 17, 2012

Harvard Business Review on Advancing Your Career Various Contributors Harvard Business Review Press (2011) “Companies own the jobs but people own their careers.”  Earl Nightingale This is one of the volumes in a series of anthologies of articles that first appeared in Harvard Business…

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The New Corporate Garage

August 23, 2012

Here is an excerpt from another exceptionally well-written article written by Scott D. Anthony for the Harvard Business Review blog. To read the complete article, check out the wealth of free resources, and sign up for a subscription to HBR email alerts, please click here. *     *     *…

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Whitney L. Johnson: An interview by Bob Morris

July 20, 2012

Whitney L. Johnson dared to dream when she began her Wall Street career as a secretary. With courage and persistence, by her forties she had risen to become an Institutional Investor-ranked sell-side analyst. Whitney is the president and co-founder of Clayton Christensen’s investment firm, Rose…

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