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With the speed of change only on the rise, it puts more pressure than ever on an enterprise organization’s ability to innovate, build great products, and disrupt itself before a competitor does.

Martin Eriksson • Product Leadership: How Top Product Managers Launch Awesome Products and Build Successful Teams

He began to see the crux of the challenge at Disney in its much-admired classic animated films such as Cinderella. These almost defined Disney to each generation when they were rereleased, but they could not be replicated.

Richard Rumelt • The Crux: How Leaders Become Strategists

In your life, there are going to be constant demands for your time and attention. How are you going to decide which of those demands gets resources? The trap many people fall into is to allocate their time to whoever screams loudest, and their talent to whatever offers them the fastest reward. That’s a dangerous way to build a strategy.

Clay Christensen • How Will You Measure Your Life?

“What has to prove true for this to work?”

Clayton M. Christensen • How Will You Measure Your Life?

if you want to create and capture lasting value, don’t build an undifferentiated commodity business.

Peter Thiel, Blake Masters • Zero to One

This means that the very mechanisms through which organizations create value are intrinsically inimical to change.

Clayton M. Christensen • The Innovator's Dilemma

Data has an annoying way of conforming itself to support whatever point of view we want it to support.

Clay Christensen • Competing Against Luck: The Story of Innovation and Customer Choice

Peter Drucker.

John Doerr • Measure What Matters: How Google, Bono, and the Gates Foundation Rock the World with OKRs

Dyer and Gregersen noted, for example, the idea for Dell Computer initially sprang from Michael Dell, founder and CEO, asking why a computer should cost five times as much as its parts. “I would take computers apart … and would observe that $600 worth of parts were sold for $3,000,” Dell shared. In laboring over the question, Dell’s personal-comput