Of disruptions and our lives ...
Recently I attended a business seminar where I was reminded that as a business, I must focus on "disruptive innovation" or be "disrupted" totally!!!! A tirade of "disruptive technologies" was hurled my way as the shape of tomorrow and I was left gasping! My first thought was I need to run away from it all - it seemed so complicated and challenged every tenet of my learnings so far, and I believe I have a decent share there! But when I had coaxed my heart to stop pounding and to switch off "flight mode", I thought again of all that I had heard and about what I made of it; it didn't seem as formidable as during the first attack :) I reminded myself, I consider myself as a change agent and disruption is also about change - only that it's pace or maybe its approach appears more aggressive than I have been used to.... And that's the new world order - new technology, new communication, new culture, new reasons to fight one another,...