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The Innovator's Dilemma, with a New Foreword

When New Technologies Cause Great Firms to Fail

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The Innovator's Dilemma, with a New Foreword

By: Clayton M. Christensen, Marc Benioff - foreword
Narrated by: L.J. Ganse, Jonathan Todd Ross
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About this listen

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.

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A seminal book with a well structured argument supported by a wealth of empirical studies.

A great book effectively narrated.

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The key lesson is great. The very long winded way of giving examples and the fact the book is quite dated makes it quite a tedious listen.

Could have been shorter

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Great ideas and pointers for what businesses to do when facing a disruptive technology. Felt a bit too much technical detail when discussing some case studies (eg disk drives).

Insightful

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I liked the delivery and flow plus the recurring emohasis of the core principles throughout the book

Competitive dynamics and human capacity

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