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Rethinking Capitalism: The Power of Creative Destruction

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once a viable strategy has been found, investors need to change what they seek—they should become impatient for growth and patient for profit. Once a profitable and viable way forward has been discovered—success now depends on scaling out this model.

Clayton M. Christensen • How Will You Measure Your Life?

Three Invisible Hurdles to Innovation

Three Invisible Hurdles to Innovation | Scott D. Anthony

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John Doerr • Measure What Matters: How Google, Bono, and the Gates Foundation Rock the World with OKRs

Disruption Clayton Christensen defines disruption in his classic book The Innovator's Dilemma. Disruptive technologies are cheaper than existing ones, perform poorly under dominant standards, but are superior in a way existing markets do not need. During his research, new players repeatedly disrupted the market by introducing smaller disk drives wi... See more

Jerry Neumann • Disruption Is Not a Strategy

In 2008 Nokia led the world in mobile phone sales. When Apple introduced the iPhone, few thought it would take off. The trend was to make handsets smaller and cheaper, but Apple’s was bulkier, pricier, and buggier. Nokia’s frame came from the conservative telecom industry, valuing practicality and reliability. Apple’s frame came from the breathless

Kenneth Cukier, Viktor Mayer-Schoenberger, • Framers

Despite beliefs spawned by popular change-management and reengineering programs, processes are not nearly as flexible or “trainable” as are resources—and values are even less so.

Clayton M. Christensen • The Innovator's Dilemma: When New Technologies Cause Great Firms to Fail (Management of Innovation and Change)

Can we become more valuable to our clients by investing in research and development on issues of particular interest to them?

David H. Maister • Managing The Professional Service Firm

At the end of the day, what matters is not what happens during the recurrent bubbles, but what comes next. The price to pay for widespread instability is that some investors regularly lose money because they didn’t pick the winner, whereas many employees eventually lose their jobs because they happened to work for the losers. In this context, the s