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.
The [...]
A societal imbalance
438 million people in China will be 60 or older by 2050, leaving just 1.6 working-age adults for each elder. (Couples in Shanghai can now have a second child. )
America’s education paradox
Americans rank 15th to 25th in math, reading, science and problem solving, but are #4 in % of higher-education degrees earned.
Which came [...]
Wired recently hosted a conference called “Disruptive by Design,” the first conference that I know of focused mostly on disruptive business models. In talking about Disruptive Leadership, I have often emphasize that a disruptive business model must accompany the disruptive innovation, especially when addressing the bottom of the pyramid. CK Pralahad talks in detail about [...]
Fareed Zakaria has been a favorite of mine for years. Editor of Newseek International since 2000, he seems to blast through media bias and provides an unusually independent and insightful interpretation of foreign policy and events.
He wrote a great assessment of America’s future position in the world in The Post-American World, and has a Sunday show called [...]
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 [...]
