In reality, spinning out is an appropriate step only when confronting disruptive innovation.
In our lives and in our careers, whether we are aware of it or not, we are constantly navigating a path by deciding between our deliberate strategies and the unanticipated alternatives that emerge.
If you defer investing your time and energy until you see that you need to, chances are it will already be too late.
Harvard Business School alum Rick Krieger and some partners decided to start QuickMedx, the forerunner of CVS MinuteClinics, after Krieger spent a frustrating few hours waiting in an emergency room fo...
Given that aim, technology, as used in this book, means the processes by which an organization transforms labor, capital, materials, and information into products and services of greater value.
Given that 93 percent of companies that ended up being successful had to change their initial strategy, any capital that demands that the early company become very big, very fast, will almost always d...
Few people have physically and emotionally survived more than one SAP implementation project.42
Each of us may have a different process for committing to our likeness. But what is universal is that your intent must be to answer this question: who do I truly want to become?
Does that mean that we should never hire or promote an inexperienced manager who had not already learned to do what needs to be done in this assignment? The answer: it depends. In a start-up company w...
But this book is not about companies with such weaknesses: It is about well-managed companies that have their competitive antennae up, listen astutely to their customers, invest aggressively in new te...
But the better you are at asking the right questions, engaging in the right observations, eliciting ideas and feedback through networking with the right people, and running experiments, the less likel...
But in disruptive situations, action must be taken before careful plans are made. Because much less can be known about what markets need or how large they can become, plans must serve a very different...
What’s most important to you in your career? The problem is that what we think matters most in our jobs often does not align with what will really make us happy.
Understand and harness the principles of disruptive innovation.
The only metrics that will truly matter to my life are the individuals whom I have been able to help, one by one, to become better people.
The innovator’s dilemma: Should we invest to protect the least profitable end of our business, so that we can retain our least loyal, most price-sensitive customers? Or should we invest to strengthen...
The breakthrough researcher first discovers the fundamental causal mechanism behind the phenomena of success. This allows those who are looking for an answer to get beyond the wings-and-feathers mind-...
Recent IBM poll of fifteen hundred CEOs identified creativity as the number-one leadership competency of the future.
Railroads fell into the trap of letting the product define the market they were in, rather than the job customers were hiring them to do. They
If our ward and stake leaders were to focus on leading their members to share the gospel, many of the other problems that fester in our hearts and homes, and in our wards and stakes, would resolve the...