Audiobooks by Clayton M. Christensen

The Innovator's Solution, with a New Foreword: Creating and Sustaining Successful Growth

Clayton Christensen's bestselling book, The Innovator's Dilemma, introduced the groundbreaking idea of disruptive innovation, revealing how even well-run companies can do everything right and yet still lose market leadership. In The Innovator's Solution, Clayton Christensen and Michael Raynor expand on the idea of disruption, explaining how companies can and should become disruptors themselves. Now with a foreword by innovation expert Scott Anthony, this classic work shows just how timely and relevant these ideas continue to be in today's hyper-accelerated business environment and will help anyone trying to transform their business right now. Christensen and Raynor give advice on the business decisions crucial to achieving truly disruptive growth and propose guidelines for developing your own disruptive growth engine. The authors identify the forces that cause managers to make bad decisions as they package and shape new ideas-and offer new frameworks to help create the right conditions, at the right time, for a disruption to succeed. This is a must-listen for all senior managers and business leaders responsible for innovation and growth, as well as for members of their teams.

Clayton M. Christensen, Michael E. Raynor (Author), Joel Leffert, Jonathan Todd Ross (Narrator)

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The Innovator's Dilemma, with a New Foreword: When New Technologies Cause Great Firms to Fail

The bestselling classic on disruptive innovation by renowned author Clayton M. Christensen. His work is cited by the world's best-known thought leaders, from Steve Jobs to Malcolm Gladwell. In this classic bestseller-one of the most influential business books of all time-innovation expert Clayton Christensen shows how even the most outstanding companies can do everything right yet still lose market leadership. Now with a foreword by Marc Benioff, the cofounder and CEO of Salesforce, Christensen explains why most companies miss out on new waves of innovation. No matter the industry, he says, a successful company with established products will get pushed aside unless managers know how and when to abandon traditional business practices. Offering both successes and failures from leading companies as a guide, The Innovator's Dilemma gives you a set of rules for capitalizing on the phenomenon of disruptive innovation. Sharp, cogent, and provocative-and consistently noted as one of the most valuable business ideas of all time-The Innovator's Dilemma is the book no manager, leader, or entrepreneur should be without.

Clayton M. Christensen (Author), Jonathan Todd Ross, L.J. Ganser (Narrator)

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HBR's 10 Must Reads 2017: The Definitive Management Ideas of the Year from Harvard Business Review

With authors from Clayton M. Christensen to Adam Grant and company examples from Intel to Uber, HBR's 10 Must Reads 2017 brings the most important management conversations to your fingertips. This book will inspire you to rethink the way you work in the face of advancing automation; transform your business using a platform strategy; apply design thinking to create innovative products; identify where too much collaboration may be holding your people back; see the theory of disruptive innovation in a brand new light; and recognize the signs that your cross-cultural negotiation may be falling apart. This collection of articles includes 'Collaborative Overload,' by Rob Cross, Reb Rebele, and Adam Grant; 'Algorithms Need Managers, Too,' by Michael Luca, Jon Kleinberg, and Sendhil Mullainathan; 'Pipelines, Platforms, and the New Rules of Strategy,' by Marshall W. Van Alstyne, Geoffrey G. Parker, and Sangeet Paul Choudary; 'What Is Disruptive Innovation?,' by Clayton M. Christensen, Michael Raynor, and Rory McDonald; 'How Indra Nooyi Turned Design Thinking into Strategy,' an interview with Indra Nooyi by Adi Ignatius; 'Engineering Reverse Innovations,' by Amos Winter and Vijay Govindarajan; “The Employer-Led Health Care Revolution,' by Patricia A. McDonald, Robert S. Mecklenburg, and Lindsay A. Martin; and more.

Adam Grant, Clayton M. Christensen, Harvard Business Review, Thomas H. Davenport, Vijay Govindarajan (Author), Jonathan Yen (Narrator)

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The Clayton M. Christensen Reader

The best of Clayton Christensen's seminal work on disruptive innovation, all in one place. No business can afford to ignore the theory of disruptive innovation. But the nuances of Clayton Christensen's foundational thinking on the subject are often forgotten or misinterpreted. To achieve continuing growth in your business while defending against upstarts, you need to understand clearly what disruption is and how it works, and know how it applies to your industry and your company. In this collection of Christensen's most influential articles-carefully selected by Harvard Business Review's editors-his incisive arguments, clear theories, and readable stories give you the tools you need to understand disruption and what to do about it. The collection features Christensen's newest article looking back on twenty years of disruptive innovation: what it is, and what it isn't. Covering a broad spectrum of topics-business model innovation, mergers and acquisitions, value-chain shifts, financial incentives, product development-these articles illuminate the impact and implications of disruptive innovation as well as Christensen's broader thinking on management theory and its application in business and in life.

Clayton M. Christensen, Harvard Business Review (Author), James Conlan (Narrator)

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HBR's 10 Must Reads on Strategic Marketing

Stop pushing products-and start cultivating relationships with the right customers. If you read (or listen to) nothing else on marketing that delivers competitive advantage, listen to these ten articles. We've combed through hundreds of articles in the Harvard Business Review archive and selected the most important ones to help you reinvent your marketing by putting it-and your customers-at the center of your business. Leading experts such as Ted Levitt and Clayton Christensen provide the insights and advice you need to: figure out what business you're really in; create products that perform the jobs people need to get done; get a bird's-eye view of your brand's strengths and weaknesses; tap a market that's larger than China and India combined; deliver superior value to your B2B customers; and end the war between sales and marketing.

Clayton M. Christensen, Fred Reichheld, Harvard Business Review, Philip Kotler, Theodore Levitt (Author), Bernard Setaro Clark, Susan Larkin (Narrator)

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HBR's 10 Must Reads on Innovation

To innovate profitably, you need more than just creativity. Do you have what it takes? If you read (or listen to) nothing else on inspiring and executing innovation, listen to these ten articles. We've combed through hundreds of articles in the Harvard Business Review archive and selected the most important ones to help you innovate effectively. Leading experts such as Clayton Christensen, Peter Drucker, and Rosabeth Moss Kanter provide the insights and advice you need to: decide which ideas are worth pursuing; innovate through the front lines-not just from the top; adapt innovations from the developing world to wealthier markets; tweak new ventures along the way using discovery-driven planning; tailor your efforts to meet customers' most pressing needs; and avoid classic pitfalls such as stifling innovation with rigid processes.

Clayton M. Christensen, Harvard Business Review, Peter F. Drucker, Vijay Govindarajan (Author), Bryan Brendle, Susan Larkin (Narrator)

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HBR's 10 Must Reads on Managing Yourself (with bonus article 'How Will You Measure Your Life?' by Cl

The path to your professional success starts with a critical look in the mirror. HBR's 10 Must Reads on Managing Yourself will inspire you to: stay engaged throughout your fifty-plus-year work life; tap into your deepest values; solicit candid feedback; replenish physical and mental energy; balance work, home, community, and self; spread positive energy throughout your organization; rebound from tough times; decrease distractibility and frenzy; and delegate and develop employees' initiative. This collection of bestselling articles from Harvard Business Review includes: bonus article 'How Will You Measure Your Life?' by Clayton M. Christensen, 'Managing Oneself,' 'Management Time: Who's Got the Monkey?,' 'How Resilience Works,' 'Manage Your Energy, Not Your Time,' 'Overloaded Circuits: Why Smart People Underperform,' 'Be a Better Leader, Have a Richer Life,' 'Reclaim Your Job,' 'Moments of Greatness: Entering the Fundamental State of Leadership,' 'What to Ask the Person in the Mirror,' and 'Primal Leadership: The Hidden Driver of Great Performance.'

Clayton M. Christensen, Daniel Goleman, Harvard Business Review, Peter F. Drucker (Author), Chris Kayser (Narrator)

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HBR's 10 Must Reads: The Essentials

An introduction to the most enduring ideas on management from Harvard Business Review Change is the one constant in business, and we must adapt or face obsolescence. Yet certain challenges never go away. These are the ten seminal articles by management's most influential experts, on topics of perennial concern to ambitious managers and leaders hungry for inspiration-and ready to run with big ideas to accelerate their own and their companies' success. Includes articles by: Michael Porter on creating competitive advantage and distinguishing your company from rivals; John Kotter on leading change through eight critical stages; Daniel Goleman on using emotional intelligence to maximize performance; Peter Drucker on managing your career by evaluating your own strengths and weaknesses; Clay Christensen on orchestrating innovation within established organizations; Tom Davenport on using analytics to determine how to keep your customers loyal; Robert Kaplan and David Norton on measuring your company's strategy with the Balanced Scorecard; Rosabeth Moss Kanter on avoiding common mistakes when pushing innovation forward; Ted Levitt on understanding who your customers are and what they really want; and C. K. Prahalad and Gary Hamel on identifying the unique, integrated systems that support your strategy.

Clayton M. Christensen, Daniel Goleman, Harvard Business Review, Michael E. Porter, Peter F. Drucker (Author), Brad Sanders, Susan Larkin (Narrator)

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The Innovator's DNA, Updated, with a New Preface: Mastering the Five Skills of Disruptive Innovators

In this bestselling book, authors Jeff Dyer, Hal Gregersen, and Clayton M. Christensen build on what we know about disruptive innovation to show how individuals can develop the skills necessary to move progressively from idea to impact. By identifying the winning behaviors of the world's best innovators, Dyer, Gregersen, and Christensen outline five discovery skills that distinguish innovative entrepreneurs and executives from ordinary managers: associating, questioning, observing, networking, and experimenting. Through real-world stories, the authors show you how to evaluate and develop your own innovator's 'DNA code,' including advice for how you can use the five skills to generate ideas, collaborate with colleagues to implement them, and sharpen your organization's competitive edge by building innovation skills into its culture. This innovation advantage will translate into a premium in your company's stock price-an innovation premium-which is possible only by building the code for innovation right into your organization's people, processes, and guiding philosophies. This book shows you how. Now updated with a new preface and fresh examples, The Innovator's DNA is more than ever the essential resource for individuals, managers, and teams who want to strengthen their innovative prowess.

Clayton M. Christensen, Hal Gregersen, Jeff Dyer (Author), Jonathan Todd Ross (Narrator)

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HBR's 10 Must Reads 2015: The Definitive Management Ideas of the Year from Harvard Business Review (

A year's worth of management wisdom, all in one place. We've combed through ideas, insights, and best practices from the past year of Harvard Business Review to help you get up to speed fast on the freshest, most relevant thinking driving business today. With authors from Clayton Christensen to Roger Martin and company examples from Netflix to Unilever, this volume brings the most current and important management conversations to your fingertips. This book will inspire you to: lead by focusing your attention on the right things; import new management practices into your organization the right way-whether they come from other companies or across the globe; better manage your organization's-and your leaders'-time; rethink vital functions such as HR and marketing; move from a yearly planning cycle to building a winning strategy; and make long-term organizational decisions with an eye to national and global economic trends.

Clayton M. Christensen, Daniel Goleman, Harvard Business Review, Renée Mauborgne, W. Chan Kim (Author), Daniel Thomas May, Susan Larkin (Narrator)

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HBR's 10 Must Reads on Business Model Innovation

Rethink how your organization creates, delivers, and captures value-or risk becoming irrelevant. If you listen to nothing else on business model innovation, listen to these ten articles. We've combed through hundreds of Harvard Business Review articles and selected the most important ones to help you reach new customers and stay ahead of your competitors by reinventing your business model. This book will inspire you to: assess whether your core business model is going strong or running out of gas; fend off free and discount entrants to your market; reinvigorate growth by adding a second business model; adopt the practices of lean startups; develop a platform around your key products; and make business model innovation an ongoing discipline within your organization.

Clayton M. Christensen, Harvard Business Review, Mark W. Johnson, Rita Gunther Mcgrath, Steve Blank (Author), Christopher Douyard (Narrator)

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The Innovator's Dilemma. Warum etablierte Unternehmen den Wettbewerb um bahnbrechende Innovationen v

Der New York Times Bestseller, der in über zehn Sprachen übersetzt wurde! Das wegweisende Werk The Innovator's Dilemma" zählt heute zu den wichtigsten Managementbüchern überhaupt. Warum versagen großartige Unternehmen im Wettbewerb um Innovationen, obwohl sie alles richtig machen? Warum erweisen sich die klassischen Erfolgsfaktoren wie Kunden-, Ertrags- und Wachstumsorientierung bei disruptiven Innovationen als geradezu gefährlich und existenzbedrohend? Professor für Business Administration an der Harvard Business School Clayton M. Christensen stellt dar, dass gut aufgestellte Unternehmen sich selbst schwächen, wenn sie nur nach den vorherrschenden Managementmethoden handeln. Anhand von Erfolgen und Fehlschlägen führender Unternehmen präsentiert The Innovator's Dilemma" Regeln für einen gelungenen Umgang mit dem Phänomen bahnbrechender Innovationen. Diese Regeln werden Managern helfen zu entscheiden, wann es sinnvoll ist: - sich nicht nach den Kundenwünschen zu richten, - in weniger leistungsfähige Produkte mit geringeren Margen zu investieren, - in noch kleine, aber wachstumsstarke Marktsegmente zu stoßen. Das Hörbuch zeigt die Unlogik" von disruptiven Innovationen auf und will zugleich Orientierung stiften, um Unternehmen - den etablierten wie den jungen - den Weg zum wirklich Neuen zu ebnen. Clayton M. Christensen ist Professor für Business Administration an der Harvard Business School, Berater zahlreicher Regierungen und Unternehmen sowie Aufsichtsratmitglied bei Franklin Covey und Tata Consultancy Services. Im Jahr 2000 gründete er zusammen mit weiteren Partnern das Beratungsunternehmen INNOSIGHT. Original title The Innovator's Dilemma. When New Technologies Cause Great Firms to Fail (c) 2018 Verlag Franz Vahlen GmbH (P) 2019 AB Publishing

Clayton M. Christensen (Author), Matthias Ernst Holzmann (Narrator)

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