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Go Where No One Else Is

ThedailybeastWed, Jan 11 2012 20:47:57Whitney Johnson, a partner at Clayton Christensen’s investment firm wrote a powerful piece in 2011 uniquely captured why pursuing a disruptive course is the best investment …

Fearless Cultures Embrace Disruption

“From classrooms arranged in rows of seats to tenured professors, from the assembly line to the way we promote executives, we have been trained to expect an orderly life. Yet …

Must-Read Weekend Reading

[I’ve been developing a Harvard Magazine article on the demise of 800 lb gorillas, and the new rules played by those that replace them, so not as much writing this …

Must-Read Weekend Reading …

Wall Street rewards New Product Lines “There’s tremendous pressure on companies, particularly publicly traded companies, to grow and grow. You see, for the most part shareholders don’t profit from steadily …

Why the How Matters

Connecting with friends now that the New How  book is done about why I wrote it and the journey of 10 years it took me to really get why the …

Little Things Like Pictures

Friend/colleague writes he saw this “On the shelf at my local Barnes and Noble. In UTAH. So cool.”   It’s always the little things that can help brighten a day, …

Is Business a Community?

Yesterday, a debate ensued about whether business is a community. It is not said one party; community is this soft thing and business is fundamentally about the results that a …