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It’s about time

Sep.24, 2008 in Channels, Emerging Markets, PCs Leave a Comment

In a recent article in Reuter’s, Michael Dell talked about increasing growth in emerging markets by bypassing their typical phone/web direct-model and selling PC’s in retail stores (dubbed dell.com@retail).
I was talking to Dell’s Asia executives in China last year about job opportunities (this was before Michael Dell returned as CEO). I brought up the challenges [...]

Tags: China

When being “disruptive” is a good thing

Sep.22, 2008 in Channels, Digital Divide, Emerging Markets, Leadership, Mobile, PCs, Strategy 3 Comments

This is a reposting of an article I wrote last week for NextBillion.net. NextBillion is a site that “brings together business leaders, social entrepreneurs, NGOs, policy makers, and academics who want to explore the connection between development and enterprise.” While a few of the ideas are covered in the About section of this blog, I wanted [...]

Tags: Africa, disruptive, intel, negroponte, olpc

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Disruptive Leadership is a weblog offering news, thoughts, comments, opinions and more on growing for-profit technology businesses in emerging markets (China, India, etc.) Being successful requires a very different approach … strategies and techniques that change the game, overturn the status quo, and ultimately make the biggest possible impact. I summarize this approach as “disruptive” … disruptive innovation, disruptive marketing, and ultimately, disruptive leadership.