At this year’s Sundance film festival, I caught the premiere of JOBS, the widely anticipated Steve Jobs biopic. Aside from the fact that Ashton Kutcher strikes an uncanny resemblance to the Apple co-founder in both looks and mannerisms, what struck me most about the film was that the primary conflict centers on “the innovator’s dilemma,” […]… Read More
Even the best-performing companies eventually stall. Sustaining momentum — and remaining a great growth company — takes a system. Scott Anthony and David Duncan call this system a “Growth Factory.”… Read More
Watch these videos to learn how Procter & Gamble built a successful growth factory.… Read More
In today’s world, start-ups aren’t the only ones who can innovate. As I discussed in my post How Big Companies Can Save Innovation, large companies are now better positioned to innovate than ever before. Here’s why: the innovation revolution spurred by venture capitalists decades ago has created the conditions in which scale allows big companies […]… Read More
Entrepreneurial individuals within big companies are harnessing resources to create solutions to big global challenges. Read this Big Idea feature from Harvard Business Review.… Read More
Drawing from his new book, Innosight’s co-founder applies innovation lessons to managing your career and personal life, prompting us to examine our daily decisions and encouraging all of us to think about what is truly important.… Read More
Not long ago, I was approached by a giant media company that had been on a 15-year tear, but whose growth was starting to slow in the face of competition with digital upstarts. The firm wanted to set up a new “growth engine.” The executive envisioned forming a small team to explore new market spaces.… Read More
A few weeks ago, I read an article in the Wall Street Journal about people who had opened up their very first investment accounts just to get in on the Facebook IPO. One man they profiled had purchased $10,000 worth of stock, borrowing $5,000 of it from his mother. Clearly, for him, this was a […]… Read More
Christensen’s The Innovator’s Dilemma, notably the only business book that Apple’s Steve Jobs said “deeply influenced” him, is widely recognized as one of the most significant business books ever published. Now, in the tradition of Randy Pausch’s The Last Lecture and Anna Quindlen’s A Short Guide to a Happy Life, Christensen’s How Will You Measure Your Life is with a book of lucid observations and penetrating insights designed to help any reader—student or teacher, mid-career professional or retiree, parent or child—forge their own paths to fulfillment.… Read More
Scott Anthony explains how to become more creative in this Harvard Business Review video.… Read More