The Seneca Effect, also known as the Seneca Cliff or Seneca Collapse, is a concept named after the ancient Roman philosopher Lucius Annaeus Seneca. The effect is based on Seneca’s quote, “Fortune is of sluggish growth, but ruin is rapid.” He observed that many things in nature, including human affairs, systems and civilisations, tend to decline much more rapidly than they ascend.
Posted 12 months ago Tagged Clayton Christensen Derek Van Bever Derek van Bever Stall Points Innovation Leadership Stall Points
Derek van Bever and team investigated the incidence and consequences of growth stalls in major corporations, then probe the root causes. Examining hundreds of stall points, the authors conclude that the greatest threat to a company’s growth is posed by obsolete strategic assumptions that undermine market position, and by breakdowns in innovation and talent management. This is Stall Points.
Posted 12 months ago Tagged Aidan McCullen Business How Will You Measure Your Life Karen Dillon Innovation Karen Dillon Microstress Leadership Transformation
Microstress: tiny moments of stress triggered by people in our personal and professional lives; stresses so routine that we barely register them but whose cumulative toll is debilitating. We welcome the author of “The Microstress Effect” Karen Dillon
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Some organisations engage in renewal as an event rather than an ongoing process. In such cases, they find their organisational skillsets and capabilities are inadequate for the new reality. Often employees who excelled in a previous reality struggle in the new paradigm. In some cases, these employees become senescent. They can even act like a senescent cell and influence those around them to become toxic and malevolent.
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Our guest had just joined IBM from McKinsey and was assigned as an internal consultant charged with supporting these nascent businesses.
We are about to hear that story and so much more.
It is a pleasure to welcome the author of āThe Corporate Explorer: How Corporations Beat Startups at the Innovation Gameā Andrew Binns
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O’Reilly and Tushman illustrate how leaders can align their organization’s cultures to fit the needed strategy and how ideation, incubation, and scaling approaches, when used all together, can successfully develop new growth businesses.
Posted 1 year ago Tagged Aidan McCullen Business Corporate Culture Deinosuchus Disruption Leadership Rightsizing Strategy Transformation
Leaders must rightsize the organisation for their current reality when confronting change, a difficult task, as Kodak discovered.
Posted 1 year ago Tagged Aidan McCullen Business Clayton Christensen Design Rules Entrepreneurship Harvard Dean Kim Clark HBR Innovation Kim B. Clark Kim B. Clark - The Interaction of Design Hierarchies and Market Concepts in Technological Evolution Kim Bryce Clark Leadership Modularity Technology Undisruptable
Kim Bryce Clark is with us to celebrate the life and theories of his friend Clayton Christensen and, indeed, share some of his theories.
Posted 1 year ago Tagged Aidan McCullen Business Clayton Christensen Efosa Ojomo Entrepreneurship Innovation Leadership Prosperity Paradox Technology Undisruptable
Itās a pleasure to welcome the co-author of The Prosperity Paradox: How Innovation Can Lift Nations Out of Poverty, Efosa Ojomo
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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.