How Will You Measure Your Life? with Karen Dillon The Clay Christensen Tribute

Karen Dillon – How Will You Measure Your Life?

Karen Dillon joins us to share concepts from her book How Will You Measure you Life co-authored with her friend, Clay Christensen

Chicken on steroids

Rank Growth or Sustainable Growth

This Thursday Thought highlights the imperative for growth imposed on organisations that have become slaves to stock analysts. When an incumbent, established organisation has enjoyed growth, they experience a challenge similar to the bodybuilder. They do not want to invest in the foundations but would instead focus on the visible growth, the vanity exercises. Investing in and developing disruptive innovation markets is akin to maintaining the ligament, tendon and muscle sheath work. By its very nature, the market size of a new opportunity is small, so the returns also look small. To make matters worse, they are slow, and when compared to the might and muscle of maturity, they look puny.

Michael E. Raynor The Innovator’s Solution

Michael E. Raynor – The Innovator’s Solution

The Innovator’s Solution summarises a set of theories that can guide managers who need to grow new businesses with predictable success—to become the disruptors rather than the disruptees—and ultimately kill the well-run, established competitors. To succeed predictably, disruptors must be good theorists. As they shape their growth business to be disruptive, they must align every critical process and decision to fit the disruptive circumstance.

The Cycles of Theory Building in Management Research with Paul Carlile The Clayton Christensen Tribute

Paul Carlile – The Cycles of Theory Building

The paper I wanted to share today aims to provide a common language about the research process that helps management scholars spend less time defending the style of research they have chosen and build more effectively on each other’s work.
I felt this series on Clayton Christensen’s work and theories would be incomplete without this episode.

It is a great pleasure to welcome the co-author of that paper and a person who has built on this work considerably, Paul Carlile.

Exploding Ants and Corporate Apoptosis

Apoptosis provides a fitting metaphor for what must happen in organisations to survive continuous cycles of change. Rather than letting the entire organisation die, the corporate body’s sectors, departments, and business units must regularly renew, just like a human body. Like any healthy process, the end of one cycle is the beginning of another, and it is better to embrace this law than to resist it. Easier said than done.

Ron Adner

Ron Adner – Asymmetric Motivation and Skills

Our guest’s award-winning research introduces a new perspective on value creation and competition when industry boundaries break down in the wake of ecosystem disruption. His two books, The Wide Lens and Winning the Right Game, have been heralded as landmark contributions to strategy literature. Clayton Christensen described his work as “Path-breaking”, and Jim Collins has called him “One of our most important strategic thinkers for the 21st century.”

It is a pleasure to welcome Ron Adner. 

Find Ron here: https://ronadner.com

Cerberus

Cerberus Clients: Captive to Customers

Using the rational, analytical investment processes that most well-managed companies have developed, it is nearly impossible to build a logical case for diverting resources from known customer needs in established markets to markets and customers that seem insignificant or do not yet exist.

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