Businesses throw Hail Marys when encountering a crisis, such as declining sales or disruptive innovation, or technology suddenly upends their business plan. Equally, leaders throw Hail Marys to meet analyst expectations when they have been coasting in the game for a long time. In sports, there is a thin line between arrogance and confidence, and business organisations often fall into the success trap.
Posted 2 years ago Tagged Aidan McCullen Ambidexerity Business Corporate Culture Disruption Entrepreneurship Innovation Lead and Disrupt. Exploit and Explore Leadership Technology Transformation Tushman and O'Reilly Undisruptable Winning Through Innovation
In today’s business world of flux, explore units are agile, decentralised, experimental cultures, loose work processes, strong entrepreneurial and technical competencies, and relatively young and neurodiverse employees. In contrast to the exploit units, these small entrepreneurial units are inefficient, rarely profitable, and have no established histories. They often deliberately violate the norms valued in older parts of the organization.
Because the explore units are wildly different from the exploit incumbent, explorers are often undermined by the parent company, whose short-term needs override exploration. While the exploit teams win in the short term, they sink the company in the long.
Posted 2 years 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 2 years ago Tagged Aidan McCullen Business Capitalists Dilemma Clayton Christensen Corporate Culture Derek Van Bever Disruption Entrepreneurship Human Potential Innovation Leadership Stall Points Technology Transformation Undisruptable
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 2 years 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 2 years 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 years 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 2 years ago Tagged Aidan McCullen Clayton Christensen Clayton M. Christensen Corporate Culture Disrupting Class Disruption Michael B. Horn Transformation
Clayton M. Christensen and Michael B. Hornâs âDisrupting Classâ is an unsettling title for a book about the schooling process.
The title conveys multiple meanings.
The principal message is that disruption can usefully frame why schools have struggled to improve and how to solve these problems.
Posted 2 years ago Tagged Apoptosis Business Corporate Culture Disruption Entrepreneurship Innovation Transformation
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.
Posted 2 years ago Tagged Aidan McCullen Business Clayton Christensen Corporate Culture Disruption Innovation Joseph L. Bower Clayton Christensen Tribute Disruptive Technologies: Catching the Wave Leadership
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.