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How To Be Disruptive not Disrupted

With a disruptive mindset, you don't make a projection or reasonable prediction. For example, if I charge my Samsung Galaxy Note 7 to 60%, it will not explode. Instead you make an unreasonable provocation: what if Note 7 will explode even without the battery being charged?   The difference between prediction and provocation is the difference between seeing things as they are and asking, 'Why?', or imaging things as they never were and ask, ' What if?' In business, we will ask the question: how can we disrupt the competitive landscape of our industry by delivering an unexpected solution ?  For example, in our sales training, I often ask bosses not what type of training they need but how to NOT TRAIN your people and get them to double their sales without you dropping a single cent of your price? As Steve Jobs said before, we don't merely want to look at the competition and see how we can be better. We look at the competition and ask how can we do different

Successful Disruption as an Employee

Following my last article on what is disruption and the role of disruption technologies, people want to know how can an ordinary employee can do successful disruption at work? For we know that if you are not successfully disrupting, you will be successfully disrupted! You'll rather be the disruptor than be the disrupted.  This is because with rapid changing technology, many work are now replaced by computers and outsourced to cheaper countries like Vietnam, Bangladesh and Cambodia. There are 5 things that you can do so that you can secure your position as an employee: Never say No. Say yes first, even when you are not sure, and go find out how to do it. The ones that say no at the first instant will be the first to get disrupted Go to your boss instead of waiting for instructions. With rapidly changing economy, your boss may have no instructions and if you just wait for him, you are just waiting to be retrenched.  Ask for More. That's right, always ask for more at wo