To be competitive, it’s no longer enough to be innovative – you must have a strategy for disruptive growth, a plan to identify and seize an opportunity no one else has the audacity or confidence to reach for. Disruptors don’t just blow things up – they also create and build things that result in huge, positive change. Welcome to The New Rules of Disruption with Charlene Li. For the past two decades, Charlene Li has been helping people see the future and thrive with disruption. She couples the ability to look beyond the horizon with pragmatic advice on what actions work today. She helps executives and boards recognize that companies must be disruptive to compete, not just innovate.
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To be competitive, it’s no longer enough to be innovative – you must have a strategy for disruptive growth, a plan to identify and seize an opportunity no one else has the audacity or confidence to reach for. Disruptors don’t just blow things up – they also create and build things that result in huge, positive change. Welcome to The New Rules of Disruption with Charlene Li. For the past two decades, Charlene Li has been helping people see the future and thrive with disruption. She couples the ability to look beyond the horizon with pragmatic advice on what actions work today. She helps executives and boards recognize that companies must be disruptive to compete, not just innovate.
As humans, we want both change and order in our lives. Disruptive leaders must understand how to impose order on the process of change so that the chaos of change doesn't fatigue the organization. This podcast looks at how leaders can understand and embrace the dichotomy between order and change, and how it can be a powerful tool in driving disruptive change.
Many leaders are frozen in place because of the fear of failure. They need to have things be perfect. But this gets in the way of leading disruptive change -- because rarely can change be perfect. Instead of trying to be perfect, focus instead on being excellent. This podcast provides three ways to jumpstart your journey to purse excellence as a disruptive leader of change.
Being a digital leader is a given, especially in the age of Zoom. But there's more to being a digital leader than simply using the technology -- it requires listening, sharing, and engaging in new ways to create and grow deep relationships.
Why is change so hard? I dig into how leaders must take the time to build up the trust scaffolding needed for people to feel safe and secure enough to take the first step towards change.
I interview Rebecca Macieira-Kaufmann, an experienced CEO, about how to scale leadership and lead transformations. An excerpt from this interview is featured in Episode 6: Scaling Leadership with Agency.
I interview Sharon Melnick, Ph.D., a global authority on women’s success, leadership, resilience, and power in this episode. We discuss where leadership power comes from and how leaders can develop and use their power more effectively.
Leading disruptive change requires that we develop and support other leaders so that we can scale the disruption. One of the most important ways to do this is to develop a sense of agency in every single person in your organization, regardless of their title. This requires that you create an environment that nurtures agency with structures and processes that provide clear guidelines on what can and can’t be done.
Humans naturally avoid conflict because it represents a potential threat to relationships important to us. But in disruptive organizations, healthy disagreements and conflict strengthen and deepen relationships with a foundation of openness and trust. Disruptive leaders must surface disagreements to ensure that everyone is completely committed to the tough disruption journey ahead.
Leadership is a relationship between leaders and their followers and relationships require trust. And the more audacious your goals, the more trust you need to go at the speed of disruption required. If trust is lacking in your organization, then use openness to erect “trust scaffolding” needed to develop and deepen trust.
To lead disruptive change, you must understand how disruptions shift power because leadership is about the accumulation and use of power. The source of leadership power is shifting, away from positions and titles toward relationships and connection. Most importantly, when you and your employees stand in your own power and sense of agency, power is shared and amplified, unleashing exponential results.
We can always claim to be in pursuit of change, but most of us are actually looking for constants in our lives - sources of habitual comfort. This tendency is acceptable for many, but leaders who want their teams to grow and prosper will have to anticipate disruption if they want their organizations to rise above the rest and deliver meaningful change. To kick off Season 1, Charlene will take you through the 3 major pressures facing leaders today, and why the outdated perception of leadership as authoritative is so harmful to any organization wishing to embrace and side-step disruption.
To be competitive, it’s no longer enough to be innovative – you must have a strategy for disruptive growth, a plan to identify and seize an opportunity no one else has the audacity or confidence to reach for. Disruptors don’t just blow things up – they also create and build things that result in huge, positive change. Welcome to The New Rules of Disruption with Charlene Li.
The consistent change in technology almost makes it a moot point; Charlene would rather know how your company plans to change, why it seeks that end goal, and what steps you will take as a leader to get there! Regardless of the field in which you lead (or hope to), political movements can be an incredible demonstration of how leaders can inspire others to pursue a common goal, and at the heart of every successful political movement is a manifesto of some kind. Charlene will share her process for writing an effective manifesto and emphasize why it’s so vital to any leader that is serious about making a shared vision come to fruition.
To be competitive, it’s no longer enough to be innovative – you must have a strategy for disruptive growth, a plan to identify and seize an opportunity no one else has the audacity or confidence to reach for. Disruptors don’t just blow things up – they also create and build things that result in huge, positive change. Welcome to The New Rules of Disruption with Charlene Li. For the past two decades, Charlene Li has been helping people see the future and thrive with disruption. She couples the ability to look beyond the horizon with pragmatic advice on what actions work today. She helps executives and boards recognize that companies must be disruptive to compete, not just innovate.
