Disruptive Leadership

“Vision without action is a daydream. Action without vision is a nightmare.” - Japanese Proverb

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The Mother of All Disruptions - Part Two

This is Part Two of a two-part series on the economic crisis and what disruptive leaders everywhere should do to survive and thrive.  Go here for Part One.

“You can’t save yourself out of a recession.”
This quote was used often in 2001 by Craig Barrett, Intel’s then CEO.  He meant that companies can emerge stronger after [...]

The Mother of all Disruptions - Part One

This is Part One of a two-part series on the economic crisis and what disruptive leaders everywhere should do to survive and thrive.  Part two can be found here.

If you have been following my posts you’ll notice that my underlying approach to business is how all things disruptive—disruptive thinking, disruptive strategies, disruptive innovation to name [...]

Disruptive Leader of the Month: 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 [...]

Ignore the price tag

The initial $100 price tag of the XO Laptop from Nicholas Negroponte’s One Laptop Per Child (OLPC) created quite a furor when it was first announced three years ago. At the time, the cheapest laptops were hovering around $400 to $500.
This subject has been rehashed many times in the press and the blogosphere, but reading [...]

Relationships: Strategic vs. transactional

A previous boss of mine, Jason Chen, who was running Intel’s sales and marketing business at the time, had a habit of saying profound things in brief, simple ways.  Maybe it came from a Chinese background steeped in Confucianism, which has many short but wise phrases and proverbs.
He once told me that the best kind [...]