{"id":678,"date":"2011-08-12T16:41:12","date_gmt":"2011-08-12T16:41:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.artstrategies.org\/leadership_tools\/readinglist\/?p=678"},"modified":"2011-08-12T16:41:12","modified_gmt":"2011-08-12T16:41:12","slug":"the-innovators-dna-or-more-disruption","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/fieldnotes\/2011\/08\/the-innovators-dna-or-more-disruption\/","title":{"rendered":"The Innovator\u2019s DNA, or More Disruption"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From <a href=\"http:\/\/www.economist.com\/node\/13613493?story_id=13613493\">Clay Christensen<\/a> and friends, of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Innovators-Dilemma-Revolutionary-Business-Essentials\/dp\/0060521996\"><em>Innovator&#8217;s Dilemma<\/em><\/a> fame.\u00a0 In a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Innovators-DNA-Mastering-Skills-Disruptive\/dp\/1422134814\/ref=ntt_at_ep_dpt_1\">new book<\/a>, <span style=\"border-collapse: collapse;clear: none;cursor: auto;float: none;font-family: inherit;font-size: inherit;font-style: inherit;font-variant: inherit;font-weight: inherit;letter-spacing: inherit;margin: 0pt;text-decoration: inherit;text-indent: 0pt;vertical-align: baseline;background-color: transparent;border: 0pt none;padding: 0pt;color: inherit;line-height: inherit\"><span style=\"border-collapse: collapse;clear: none;cursor: auto;float: none;font-family: inherit;font-size: inherit;font-style: inherit;font-variant: inherit;font-weight: inherit;letter-spacing: inherit;margin: 0pt;text-decoration: inherit;text-indent: 0pt;vertical-align: baseline;background-color: transparent;border: 0pt none;padding: 0pt;color: inherit;line-height: inherit\">Christensen and coauthors Jeff Dyer and Hal Gregersen investigate what characterizes innovative individuals and how these traits transfer to the organization.<br \/>\n<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\"><em>Five habits of mind&#8230;characterise disruptive innovators:<\/em><em> associating,<\/em><em> questioning,<\/em><em> observing,<\/em><em> networking and <\/em><em>experimenting. Innovators excel at connecting seemingly  unconnected things&#8230;<\/em><em>companies that have the highest \u201cinnovation premiums\u201d&#8230;display the same five  habits of mind as individual innovators. <\/em><\/p>\n<p>The <em>Economist<\/em>&#8216;s writer (as always, sans byline) argues:<\/p>\n<p><em>For all their insistence that innovation can be learned, Mr Christensen  and co. produce a lot of evidence that the disruptive sort requires  genius. <\/em><\/p>\n<p>What do you think? Can innovation be learned? Does it flow from the individual to the organization? Does it require staggering genius?<\/p>\n<p>If nothing else, you will learn how IKEA decided to flat-pack furniture.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.economist.com\/node\/21525350\">Schumpeter: Think different | The Economist<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From Clay Christensen and friends, of Innovator&#8217;s Dilemma fame.\u00a0 In a new book, Christensen and coauthors Jeff Dyer and Hal Gregersen investigate what characterizes innovative individuals and how these traits transfer to the organization. Five habits of mind&#8230;characterise disruptive innovators: associating, questioning, observing, networking and experimenting. Innovators excel at connecting seemingly unconnected things&#8230;companies that have [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[136],"tags":[267,303,169,387],"coauthors":[34],"class_list":{"0":"post-678","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-reading-list","7":"tag-christensen","8":"tag-disruption","9":"tag-innovation","10":"tag-organizations","11":"entry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/fieldnotes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/678","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/fieldnotes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/fieldnotes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/fieldnotes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/fieldnotes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=678"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/fieldnotes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/678\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/fieldnotes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=678"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/fieldnotes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=678"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/fieldnotes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=678"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/fieldnotes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=678"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}