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Disruption

How do nimble little companies keep disrupting established companies in one industry after another even when the big guys focus on their customers and continually improve crucial features of their products and services? Since the late Clayton Christensen explained that phenomenon, much has been written about disruptive innovation. Learn how to understand it, defend against it or become the disruptor yourself.

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Book

The Innovator’s Dilemma

When New Technologies Cause Great Firms to Fail
Clayton M. Christensen
Harvard Business Review Press, 1997
8 Book

From Malthus to Mars

How to Live, Lead, and Learn in an Exponential World
Nicolai Chen Nielsen and Lars Tvede
Fast Company Press, 2023
8 Book

Mapping Innovation

A Playbook for Navigating a Disruptive Age
Greg Satell
McGraw-Hill, 2017
9 Book

Jobs to Be Done

A Roadmap for Customer-Centered Innovation
Stephen Wunker et al.
AMACOM, 2016
Book

The Innovator’s DNA

Mastering the Five Skills of Disruptive Innovators
Jeff Dyer et al.
Harvard Business Review Press, 2011
8 Book

Open Strategy

Mastering Disruption from Outside the C-Suite
Christian Stadler et al.
MIT Press, 2021
9 Book

Humanity Reimagined

Where We Go from Here
Martin Fiore
Rivertowns Books, 2020
8 Report
The Economist Intelligence Unit
EIU, 2015
8 Article

To Disrupt or Not to Disrupt?

Disruption isn’t always the right strategy for startups. It’s a choice.
Joshua Gans
MIT Sloan Management Review, 2020
9 Article

How Leaders Delude Themselves About Disruption

We’ve known for decades what causes disruption. So why are companies still allowing themselves to be vulnerable? The answer starts at the top.
Scott D. Anthony and Michael Putz
MIT Sloan Management Review, 2020
8 Book

Trauma to Triumph

A Roadmap for Leading Through Disruption (and Thriving on the Other Side)
Mark Goulston and Diana Hendel
HarperCollins Leadership, 2021
8 Book
Dave Jilk and Brad Feld
Brad Feld, 2021