It is a pleasure to welcome a great friend of Clay Christensen, yet another soul deeply touched by the man, the author of âStall pointsâ and author of the 2014 paper, The Capitalistâs Dilemma, Derek van Bever.
Posted 1 year 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 1 year 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 year ago Tagged Aidan McCullen Business Clayton Christensen Competing Against Luck Entrepreneurship Human Potential Innovation Jobs To be Done Leadership Taddy Hall Technology Undisruptable
Todayâs book is a book about progress.â¨Yes, itâs a book about innovationâand 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.â¨If youâre like many entrepreneurs and managers, the word âprogressâ might not spring to mind when youâre trying to innovate.
Posted 1 year 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 1 year 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.
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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.
Posted 1 year ago Tagged Aidan McCullen Business Clayton Christensen Disruption Disruptive Innovation Entrepreneurship Innovation Leadership Michael Raynor Strategy Technology The Innovator's Solution Transformation
The Innovatorâs Solution summarises a set of theories that can guide managers who need to grow new businesses with predictable successâto become the disruptors rather than the disrupteesâand 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.
Posted 1 year ago Tagged Clayton Christensen Theory Building
âI Donât Have an Opinion, the Theory Has an Opinion” – Clayton Christensen, inoculating value attribution bias by using the lens of theory.
Posted 1 year ago Tagged Aidan McCullen Clayton Christensen Innovation Paul Carlile and Clayton Christensen Strategy Theory Building Transformation
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 otherâs work.
I felt this series on Clayton Christensenâs 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.