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Don The Idea Guy Snyder

Author, 100-Whats of Creativity

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MY FAVORITE DISRUPTIVE CHANGE

“Right now my current obsession is Roku. The generic term for this is IPTV — internet protocol television. It’s a great tool! In my opinion, it’s the next Kindle. Everybody is now developing their own TV — Netflix is going to win awards for their House of Cards series, Amazon’s got development deals out there, Arrested Development has staged a complete comeback while being off of mainstream TV. 



“Roku and other IPTV shows are making it easier for everyone to create their own shows and host them on your own channel.



“We’re barely just scratching the surface of this. The content is just getting started. I can’t wait to see where this goes!”

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When blogging first hit the scene, pundits crowed that now everybody is a publisher. Well, now everybody can be a TV producer. And anyone over 20 should watch out! Some of the best stuff is coming from those raised on tablets. 



As The Idea Guy says, watch out — this disruption is just getting started!   



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Become an Innovation Insurgent

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Jorge Barba

Chief Strategist, Blu Maya







MY DISRUPTIVE MOMENT

“In 2001 I changed FedEx.



“I was 18 and got a job loading trucks at FedEx Ground in San Diego. I thought ‘This sucks. The flow of work doesn’t make sense.’



“In my first month, I broke all the rules that seemed stupid. Without approval, I started doing work that was supposed to be done by three people. A year later we were doing almost the same volume as Los Angeles and FedEx had incorporated my workarounds into their revised processes.



“FedEx founder Fred Smith came to meet me. At 18, he offered me a job as an assistant sort manager. I said ‘I can’t. I’m gonna build a big company that’s going to change the world.’”



“Now people call me an innovation insurgent because I make shit happen. 




“Break rules to make things better. You have to face the fear of doing that. Don’t ask for permission. If you’re failing fast and experimenting, it isn’t a big risk. The most important thing is that you believe in yourself.”


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You’ve heard this before, you’ll hear it again and again (until it sinks in!) It’s better to ask forgiveness than to ask permission. Go. Do. Break rules to make things better. Become an innovation insurgent.  



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Release Your Inner Child

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Tom Asacker

Author, The Business of Belief

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MY FAVORITE DISRUPTIVE HEROES

“My favorite disruptive heroes are my children.



“If I think about disruption: it’s something that interrupts the normal course of life, that throws it into disorder. Children are natural disruptors. They see the world and their role in it through brilliant unobstructed eyes and, if you pay close enough attention, you can recapture some of that passion and curiosity and creativity.



“What launched me on my new career was my daughter. I was sitting unemployed in my bathrobe at noon one day, staring at a cup of coffee. My youngest daughter was looking at a spoon, flipping it back and forth, really engaged in studying it. I asked her what she was doing and she said, ‘When I look at the spoon this way, I’m right side up. But when I turn it around, I’m upside down. Why is that?’



“I knew the words concave and convex, but I realized I had no idea why that was happening. At that point, I realized that that reminded me of a lot of business leaders: they know a lot of words, but they don’t really know what’s going on in the real lives of the people that they serve.



“My daughter disrupted my thinking, and the book resulted, Sandbox Wisdom, is what propelled me to where I am today.”  

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Asacker’s Aha is universal. We all need to go back to when we were two or four or eight. To deal with disruptions and to be disruptive heroes ourselves, we need to start looking through our younger eyes, that see things differently and compel us to ask different questions.  



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Giving Ourselves Permission

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David Wolinsky

Creator, producer, director, writer, teacher







MY FAVORITE DISRUPTIVE CHANGE


Giving Myself Permission Not to Know. “The disruptive challenge that I’m currently struggling with is just making sense like everybody elese is. We live in an age where things can be so much more open-ended, with careers being so much more fluid. 



“The main thing I’m thing is giving myself permission to not know and to just keep rolling with the punches — having the realization that just because I’m on one path doesn’t mean that I’m always on that path…and that [new] path can lead to to other things.



“I lot of people have [unfortunately] gotten very skilled at — talking themselves out of even trying something.”
 

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No matter how much uncertainty and instability comes at us, we keep craving certainty and stability…So much so that we miss the new paths that are placed before us.



New opportunities appear everyday, yet most of us miss them because they come dressed in different clothes than we’re used to. 


Carry that concept deep inside you and suddenly tough choices become a lot easier, with better, more fulfilling opportunities.



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The Downside of Short-Term Thinking

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Peter Georgescu

Author, The Constant Choice

Chairman Emeritus of Young & Rubicam







PART 2: MY BIGGEST DISRUPTIVE CHALLENGE

“The disruptive change that I’m trying to influence — and I’m struggling with that — is trying to behavior as better people. Specifically, in business: We have this idea of emphasis on the short term, which has become the prophetic gospel of the business world. 



“That has been the norm only for the past 20 years. This is not inherent in the capitalist system. But it’s become a religion that has been supported and embraced and continues to be proselytized by all the Wall Street elements that have a short-term horizon. 



“The problem is that the focus on the short-term is flawed. The average tenure of a Fortune 500 CEO is about three years. Good luck with this serious serial CEO turnover if you’re going to maximize the benefits of a corporation, it’s people, it’s tangible and intangible assets over time! 



“The religion is that the shareholder is the owner, therefore they should reap the benefits from ownership. But in fact, most of those shareholders are not owners, they’re renters, they’re tenants. They leave at their convenience. That’s not what an owner does! Owners hang around, they fix the roof, they fix the boiler, they clean the house, they paint it. 



“[When it comes to having a voice in a company’s long-term interests…] Where is the consumer? They don’t have a major voice. Where are the employees? Where are the citizens of the community? Missing in action. Not a good thing. 




“Finally, the focus on short term helps to create the gap between the wealthiest Americans and the vast majority of the working people in this country. This vast gap between the haves and the have-much-less is a very scary socio-economic trend. If we don’t get on top of it, it’s a train wreck about to happen. It is not moral and it’s not sustainable.”
  

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The challenges that all of us face is that most disruptions create short-term symptoms, which appear urgent and seem to deserve most of our energies. And yet, it is the long-term root causes (e.g., challenges in our education system, in how we are trained, in our need for immediate gratification, etc.) that truly deserve our energies. 



Please make sure some of your work today is focused on a long-term challenge!



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Your Job Is Not Who You Are

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Chris LoCurto

Leadership Coach







MY FAVORITE DISRUPTIVE CHANGE

“My favorite disruptive change is when I discovered that what I do for a living is not who I am. I was so tied up in my job. So many people are. We get so wrapped up in what we do that we get too emotionally involved. Especially those of us who are entrepreneurs or leaders who have been leading for a long time — sometimes it becomes your whole world. Everybody I was around [early in my career] was teaching me that the way you lead is your job becomes your life. 



“Somewhere around 13 to 14 years ago, I discovered that that’s not true. If you do live that way, then that is your life and you miss out on everything else. 




“So I started teaching people about the circles in their life. For me, I’m dedicated to helping people lead. I’ve also got a ton of other circles in my life: I race cars, I ski, I’m a brother, I’m a son, I’m a Christian… There are all these different pieces about me that make up who I am, and what I do for a living is just a part of that. 



“When I changed that thinking and I started teaching other people, it’s amazing how much they’ve enjoyed understanding that they can do an incredible job at work, be an incredible entrepreneur, be an incredible leader, be an incredible hourly worker — and still have a life.

“When your job is who you are, you’re so stressed out about making the right choices, that you sometimes fail to even make choices.”
 

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Everything comes down to the choices we make. In order to make the right choices or the best choices, we need to realize that our job is not who we are. 



Carry that concept deep inside you and suddenly tough choices become a lot easier, with better, more fulfilling opportunities.



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We All Are Born Creative

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Gabor George Burt

Author, Slingshot

Slingshot Blog







PART 2: MY FAVORITE DISRUPTIVE CHANGE

“My favorite disruptive change is reimagining boundaries. That has really defined everything I do and the way that I am. 



“There is an incredible sense of realization currently, that reimagining boundaries is not just a luxury, but a necessity. [A recent study asked CEOs] What is the most important leadership quality for future success? And the number one answer was: creativity. Which to me is an amazing evolution of what the answer might have been even five years ago. 



“There are two fundamental things about human nature… One, by nature, we are all creative. The other is that we always seek new experiences. I think that’s the golden platform for any organization to continuously innovate. When people realize this, they are struck by how easy it is to tap into that.”
 

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We all have the creative gene inside of us. Burt quoted Dr. Suess saying “Adults are just obsolete children,” because it reverses the assumed natural progression — that we had true wisdom when we were children. You did! 



Return to your childhood. Be as creative as you were when you two of five or eight. You were born creative. Go back to that!



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The Ups and Downs of New Technology

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Jeff Bullas

Blogging Guru







MY FAVORITE DISRUPTIVE CHANGE

Social Media. “It opened my eyes to the power of the democratization of marketing. You no longer have to ask permission from a journalist or a PR company to publish or be published in a mass media newspaper or online. 



“So social media has given me the freedom to market my blog and it continues to democratize my marketing. That’s what excites me: the freedom to market your online brand. It’s also democratized publishing. And on top of that, we now have mobile, which is also a publishing platform in your pocket. Those two technologies are incredibly powerful in giving people the platform and power to market themselves.”  



MY CURRENT DISRUPTIVE CHALLENGE

Technology. “I struggle with it almost every day, because I’m not a programmer. I have to rely upon outsourced help.”

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Ahhh, there’s the rub. The newest technologies make so much a lot easier and a lot more empowering, and they also make things more complicated. We all have to master a lot more to keep up. Disruption will always be a double-edged sword. We all have to deal with this!



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What Comes Next?

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Jon Acuff

Author, Start

Jon Acuff Blog







MY CURRENT DISRUPTIVE CHALLENGE

What's Next? “The disruptive change I’m currently struggling with is starting to think about the next book I write. I’m not a research writer. I like to live it first, then write about it.



“My first book, Quitter, was about me quitting my job and figuring things out. Start certainly continued that conversation. Now, I look at my current life and I think, ‘What story am I going to write about a year from now. How do I, as an author, live a life that’s worthy of a book?

“I don’t want to get to the end of this year and go, ‘Wow, it was successful, but it certainly wasn’t inspirational.’ 



“I’m trying to figure out, ‘What’s the story I want my life to tell a year from now?’”


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Acuff’s struggle is an everyman struggle. You don’t have to be an author to relate. 



All of us need to be asking ourselves “What’s the story I want my life to tell a year from now?” If you don’t like the current answer to that question, change the story! Disrupt what you’re doing. Right now!



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It Is Not About You

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Peter Georgescu

Author, The Constant Choice

Chairman Emeritus of Young & Rubicam







PART 1: MY DISRUPTIVE HERO

“I have been blessed by having many disruptive heroes — I call them guardian angels…they disrupt towards the good. The most important one was a lady called Francis Payne Bolton, a congresswoman from Ohio. A very close friend of [President] Eisenhower. 



“I was in Romania in a hard labor camp with my older brother. My parents were in New York, separated by accident by the Iron Curtain. The communists tried to blackmail my mother and father, asking them to spy for them in return for our safety. The FBI told my father to tell our story. The headlines read: Georgescu Family Being Blackmailed. Francis Bolton saw our story and went to President Eisenhower for help. 



“I owe everything to her intervention. What Frances Bolton did for me was critical to how I look on my life — for being graced to have whatever talents I’ve had and to have been given the opportunity to live in this country… This inspired me to, first of all, live my life in business in an ethical, value-driven way. That was my first way of giving back. I think being philanthropic is nice, but having the ability to live your life with integrity and values is one of the most important thing any of us can do.”
 

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Let's Disrupt This!

Peter Georgescu reminds of of two crucial truths: 1. When put in perspective, most of the daily disruptions that most of us like to grump about really are not that bad! 2. The anchors that will help us through any disruption are… 

• Our values 

• Our integrity 

• Our dedication to that which is bigger than ourselves 

• Our guardian angels 

Draw upon those and all disruptions are manageable!




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