It is a pleasure to welcome a great friend of Clay Christensen, yet another soul deeply touched by the man, the author of “Stall points” and author of the 2014 paper, The Capitalist’s Dilemma, Derek van Bever.
Posted 4 days ago Tagged Egreg-ORGS Egregore Egregore Organisations
Organisations are egregores or egreg-ORGS. Organisations feed on the energy of their employees, suppliers and customers. Organisations reach their goals through the energetic alignment of their collectives. The thoughts and emotions of employees emit energy that is harnessed to create a collective entity greater than the sum of its parts. Egregores are not always harmful but have led to genocide, slavery and war. For this article, I want to highlight the idea of an organisation sapping the energy of its people and ostracising those who go against the grain.
Posted 6 days ago Tagged Aidan McCullen Corporate Culture Disruption Entrepreneurship Innovation Leadership Strategy Technology Transformation
Clayton Christensen mentored Bob Moesta, and they became fast friends. Bob was one of the principal architects of the Jobs To Be Done theory. He expands on the theory and shares his respect for his friend Clay.
Posted 1 week ago Tagged Aidan McCullen Business Clayton Christensen Competing Against Luck Entrepreneurship Human Potential Innovation Jobs To be Done Leadership Taddy Hall Technology Undisruptable
Today’s book is a book about progress.
Yes, it’s a book about innovation—and how to get better at it.
But at its core, this book is about the struggles we all face to make progress in our lives.
If you’re like many entrepreneurs and managers, the word “progress” might not spring to mind when you’re trying to innovate.
Posted 2 weeks ago Tagged Aidan McCullen Business Corporate Culture Innovation Leadership Sports Academies are like Innovation and Incubation Labs Strategy Transformation
Sports Academies are like Innovation and Incubation Labs
Posted 2 weeks ago Tagged Clayton Christensen Clayton M. Christensen HBR How Will You Measure Your Life How Will You Measure Your Life Karen Dillon Karen Dillon Sonosite Clayton Christensen Transformation
In, “How Will You Measure Your Life?”, Clay Christensen and Karen Dillon apply the theories developed by Clayton Christensen to our lives.
Posted 2 weeks ago Tagged Aidan McCullen Business Clayton Christensen Corporate Culture Disruption Entrepreneurship HBR How Will You Measure Your Life Innovation Karen Dillon Leadership Strategy Technology Transformation
Karen Dillon joins us to share concepts from her book How Will You Measure you Life co-authored with her friend, Clay Christensen
Posted 3 weeks ago Tagged Aidan McCullen Business Disruption Entrepreneurship Guillaume Apollinaire Butterflies Honda Emergent Strategy Innovation Leadership Strategy Transformation
“Butterflies, for all their graces, are merely caterpillars who persevere.” Guillaume Apollinaire, Honda and the emergent strategy in America.
Posted 3 weeks ago Tagged Clayton Christensen
The genesis of today’s book centred on a question posed years ago to “disruptive technologies” coauthor Clayton Christensen: where do disruptive business models come from? Christensen’s best-selling books, The Innovator’s Dilemma and The Innovator’s Solution, conveyed important insight into the characteristics of disruptive technologies, business models, and companies.
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What this means in practice is that the new- and-different must be separated and even protected from the tried-and-true. As Mark says, “To play a new game on a new field requires a new game plan.”
—Clayton M. Christensen