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Friday Filosophy #2016-23

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Last week we talked about the status quo. Now, in Friday Filosophy #2016-23, I want to move to technological disruptions. Conventional wisdom, which is another oxymoron for the status quo, states that disruptive technologies change everything.  Harvard Business School professor Clayton Christensen see disruptive technologies upsetting apple carts all over the globe.  

Here are some thoughts on disruptive technologies.

 

Disruption is, at its core, a really powerful idea. Everyone hijacks the idea to do whatever they want now.  It’s the same way people hijacked the word “paradigm” to justify lame things they’re trying to sell to mankind.

Clayton Christensen

 

Supply chains cannot tolerate even 24 hours of disruption. So if you lose your place in the supply chain because of wild behavior you could lose a lot. It would be like pouring cement down one of your oil wells.

Thomas Friedman

 

The key is to embrace disruption and change early. Don’t react to it decades later. You can’t fight innovation.

Ryan Kavanaugh

 

Employees speak of being fearful opening emails and feeling increasingly helpless in the face of the deluge. Physiologically, we now know that the state of continuous disruption puts us into a constant state of hormone-induced stress.

Noreen Hertz

 

The First Amendment was designed to allow for disruption of business as usual. It is not a quiet and subdued amendment or right.

Naomi Wolf

 

True disruption means threatening your existing product line and your past investments. Breakthrough products disrupt current lines of business.

Peter Diamondis

 

The time is now.

Friday Filosophy #2015-35

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For our Friday Filosophy #2015-35 I want to give you all a quick peek at what we do in our classrooms.  In nearly every one of our learning classes I ask for definitions of three words: ignorance, stupidity and insanity.

There is a lot of hemming and hawing but ultimately we get to the end.

Ignorance is not knowing what to do.

Stupidity is know what to do and not doing it.

Insanity is continuing to do what you have always done expecting different results.

Pretty straightforward, I think.

How can we know what to do if we don’t read? So today rather than put out quotations to stimulate your thinking I am going to give you some authors that you should be reading.

Patrick Lencioni. This man has been extremely busy with ten or so books to his name. All of them are great reads and very insightful. Try “The Three Signs of a Miserable Job” and “The Five Dysfunctions of team.”

The second author is Clayton Christenden. Two books come to mind with this author; “How Will You Measure Your Life” and “The Innovator’s Dilemma.”

Finally are three individual books; Bold: How To Go Big, Create Wealth and Impact the World and finally Abundance: The Future is Better Than You Think.

Fall is a wonderful season for reading. I hope you take some time and get these books and continue with your personal development.

The time is now.