Disruptive Leadership offers news, thoughts, comments, and opinions on business and management strategy in today’s highly competitive global marketplace. Creating a wildly successful international business  requires a very different approach to growth and competition … strategies and techniques that change the game, overturn the status quo, and ultimately make the biggest possible impact. I summarize these approaches as “disruptive” … disruptive innovation, disruptive business models, and ultimately, disruptive leadership.

Being “disruptive” is not typically associated with positive action. But I posit that leading disruptively can be very positive. But it is hard, very hard. There are more failures than successes. I failed and succeeded. I’ve observed other companies, groups and individuals do the same. And its even harder to do in one of the most dynamic countries on the planet: China. You learn when you do both. As Henry Ford once said: “Failure is only the opportunity to begin again more intelligently.”

Disruptive leadership is a concept that is heavily influenced by the theory of disruptive innovation put forth by Clayton Christensen in his seminal book The Innovator’s Dilemma and the even-better sequel The Innovator’s Solution. I believe disruptive leadership captures the essence of what it takes to be successful as a business leader trying to crack the secret formula of growing in very dynamic international markets.

I didn’t invent the term “disruptive leadership.” Just Google the term and you’ll find interesting articles, like this one and that one. They even have an MBA course on it at UC Berkeley.

So, please read, comment and participate. Hopefully you will learn something new, or, better yet, teach me something new.