Disruptive Leadership

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Did you know …

… that more than half of the 20 richest women in the world are Chinese, according to the Shanghai-based Hurun Report. The list compiled its own findings with data from similar rankings from Forbes Magazine.  The top 3 on the list are from China. Some attribute this to the communist ethos of gender-neutrality.
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A measure of success

One of the things that I love about blogging is meeting fascinating people that have a common interest in disruptive leadership topics. Last week Thomas Thurston got in touch with me after he read A Lesson Learned.  Thomas had also previously worked for Intel and was involved with some of the same emerging market projects.
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Disruptive leaders – Jeff Bezos and the Kindle

Recently, I came across an article in the NY Times about Jeff Bezos’ speech at a conference about disruptive business models.
I googled the article and found that Wired magazine hosted a conference called “Disruptive by Design,” the first conference that I know of focused specifically on disruptive business models.  They have a video library of all of [...]

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Disruptive Leaders: NComputing

For the month of October, I have decided to highlight a company as the Disruptive Leader of the Month. NComputing has been on my radar for awhile as one of the few for-profit startup companies that are targeting emerging markets and the digital divide, but I had not looked at them as a serious [...]

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Becoming a heretic

I’ve recently become a Seth Godin fan.  Yes, I’m late to the party.  The guy is a blogging machine.  His insights are spot on. I subscribe to his feeds and get one or two a day.  I’m lucky if I can post two a week.
A colleague recently sent me a Godin post that didn’t even [...]

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