Steve Jobs and Jeff Bezos Sought His Advice. What I Learned First-hand From This Industry Giant.

In this episode, I talk about my experience working with the famed Prof. Clayton Christensen, author of "The Innovator's Dilemma" and "The Innovator's Solution" and one of the most influential business thinkers of the past 50 years according to Forbes.

In 2014 I had the privilege of collaborating with Prof. Christensen and 18 other people, including Heads of Innovation for major corporations, other Harvard professors and a few alumni of Prof. Christensen's class on his work on the "Capitalist's Dilemma".  It resulted in me being named a "community thought leader" in the Harvard Business Review in June 2014.

But more importantly, my interaction with Clay taught me a few valuable lessons beyond innovation, business and the theory of capital, including how to:
1) Lead and get the best out of people
2) Think in a disciplined way
3) Get amazing mentors who believe in you
4) Not get crushed by the pressures and expectations of your job

Tune in to listen to my lessons from working with this amazing person - the episode was recorded on what would have been his 70th birthday.

Books and resources:

-  The Innovator’s Dilemma: When New Technologies Cause Great Firms to Fail by Clayton M Christensen (NY Times Best-seller, 1997)
- The Innovator's Solution: Creating and Sustaining Successful Growth by Clayton M Christensen (2003)
- Seeing What’s Next: Using the Theories of Innovation to Predict Industry Change by Clayton M Christensen (2004)
- How Will You Measure Your Life? by Clayton M Christensen (2012)
- The Capitalist's Dilemma by Clayton M Christensen and Derek van Bever + collaboration by Lisa Kostova and other alums (2014)
- Investor's Business Daily: Clayton Christensen's Thinking Revolutionized Innovation (2022)- - The Christensen Institute: https://www.christenseninstitute.org/