Disruptor Quotes

The weather is nature's disruptor of human plans and busybodies. Of all the things on earth, nature's disruption is what we know we can depend on, as it is essentially uncontrolled by men.

- You know what this is? - Nope - It's a bowel disruptor. And you are just full of shit.

Disruptors don't have to discover something new; they just have to discover a practical use for new discoveries.

Death is the great disruptor; it thrusts us opposite life’s mirror, invites our truthful exploration, and reveals the naked truth; from which rebirth is possible and we are free to reinvent ourselves anew.

The disruptor’s journey is always the same. First, they laugh at you, then they ignore you, and then you win.

Attention is your brand’s most valuable asset. In a world where people’s attention is in short supply, with so many distractions per second, your brand must be a disruptor.

Disruption also attracts attention: disruptors are people who look for trouble and find it.

Ironically, the very advances that represent all that is modern in the world—hand sanitizers, treated water, factory farming—have created their own set of diseases. For example, triclosan—an antibacterial chemical used in many soaps and hand sanitizers—has been shown to kill human cells,26 and even the FDA admits it acts as an endocrine disruptor in animals.27 When combined with chlorinated water, it produces chloroform28—a probable carcinogen according to the EPA.29

DNA doesn't grant automatic access to my life.

When he pursed his lips and dropped a hand into his coat pocket, the last thing Nur expected him to pull out was a cricket ball. "I'd hoped for a disruptor at least," she muttered reprovingly. The Doctor slipped three fingers around the ball and hefted it experimentally. "I thought we'd try something a little less excessive." He breathed gently on to the maroon leather and polished it on his leg as the Sontaran finally tossed the Kshatriya aside and stopped to pick up its fallen weapon. He stepped around the corner, sighting along his free arm as the Sontaran straightened, its back fully turned. The cricket ball flashed down the length of the corridor in the blink of an eye, punching into the back of the Sontaran's collar and ricocheting away. To Nur's astonishment, the alien spasmed and crashed to the floor like a falling tree. "Out for a duck," the Doctor commented, blowing across his fingertips. "I've never seen anything killed by a cricket ball before." "You haven't yet. He'll wake up in a few minutes.

Their commander did say they were idiots.” “Indeed.” Spock banged on the door with the butt of the disruptor pistol and bellowed in passable Orion, “Idiots!

Illuvian Disruptor Death Rays don't kill Illuvians. Illuvians kill Illuvians.

The number of disruptors a person can expect to experience in an adult life is around three dozen. That’s an average of one every twelve to eighteen months.

A disruptor finds opportunity and profit from his misfortunes.

If three hundred years of chainsaws, CFCs, depleted uranium, automobiles, genetic engineering, airplanes, routine international trade, computers, plastics, endocrine disruptors, pesticides, vivisection, internal combustion engines, feller bunchers, dragline excavators, televisions, cell phones, and nuclear (and conventional) bombs are not enough to convey the picture, then that picture will never be conveyed.

nonfood products such as over-the-counter and prescribed drugs, room fresheners, hand sanitizers, and countless other disruptors are not just a problem in their own right but also compound the negative effects of eating lectins.

Value comes from seeing what customers need and delivering it. Digital disruptors will do all of this at lower cost, with faster development times, and with greater impact on the customer experience than anything that came before.

If the world is simple, certain people will never be inconvenienced, never need to adapt. I disrupt those people, and you do too. You’ve been doing it since you walked in the door. I like disruptors and rhythm breakers. We should start a club.

Thomas Edison once declared that vision without execution is hallucination.

The strategists need a game theory view for a game-changing strategy in our platform world

Protecting my child is the ultimate act of love. My father will never have the opportunity to hurt my son the way he hurt me.

People who lie to you cannot be taken at face value because their words and actions are built on deception. When someone repeatedly bends the truth, hides information, or manipulates facts, it becomes impossible to trust what they say. It's exhausting to second-guess someone constantly. Their words become meaningless, and their actions are the only thing left to measure.

Because when the law implicitly or explicitly limits internal competition and bars new entrants, businesses have little, if any, incentive to innovate. As a result, regulated businesses—which include public utilities, air travel, defense, health care, and food and drugs—have fallen dangerously far behind in adopting exponential technologies. Once the disruptors do find a way in, collapse is that much more sudden.

[Trump] is also the personification of the merger of humans and corporations—a one man megabrand, whose wife and children are spin-off brands, with all the pathologies and conflicts of interest inherent in that. He is the embodiment of the belief that money and power provide license to impose one's will on others, whether that entitlement is expressed by grabbing women or grabbing the finite resources from a planet on the cusp of catastrophic warming. He is the product of a business culture that fetishizes "disruptors" who make their fortunes by flagrantly ignoring both laws and regularity standards. Most of all, he is the incarnation of a still-powerful free-market ideological project—one embraced by centrist parties as well as conservative ones—that wages war on everything public and commonly held, and imagines corporate CEOs and superheroes who will save humanity.

Marius glowered at the long cone-shaped ship with its stupid curving tailfins. His field scan swept out. It was an illusion, produced by a small module on the airlock floor. He smashed a disruptor pulse into the solido projector, and the starship image shivered, shrinking down to a beautiful, naked young girl with blonde hair that hung halfway down her back. ‘Oh, Howard,’ she moaned sensually, running her hands up her body, ‘do that again.’ Marius let out an incoherent cry, and shot the projector again.

Alert> Five Chikoya approaching, open assault formation. Multiple target acquisition. Armed> Disruptor pulse. Maximum power rating. Sequential fire. U-shadow update: landing exit capsule behind Building-D. Armed> Neutron lasers. Maximum power rating. Sequential fire. U-shadow update: decoy capsules on collision vector. Mach eight. Accelerating. Armed> Microkinetics. Enhanced explosive warheads. Free fire authority. Armed> Ariel smartseeker stealth mines. Chikoya profile loaded. Dispense. Alert> New targets.

Be fearless. Be tenacious. Go after what you want. Be a leader. Take control. Don't like how things are managed? Change the status quo. Be a disruptor. Galvanize, inspire, lead, get results. Stand resolute in the face of critics, detractors, naysayers. Their no is your yes. Make a difference. Change the narrative. Be a monumental success and a paradigm for forward, sometimes unorthodox, always creative thinking. This is what makes you a trailblazer, a standard bearer and history maker!! Oh, unless you are a powerful, black woman (or simply a WOMAN)with a voice that moves the needle. Then, you are a troublemaker, angry, stupid, menopausal, looking for attention? Women don't owe anyone an apology or explanation for being everything those part of an unevolved faction of society believes is only reserved for men. Work with us and be great, or get out of our way so we can continue what we started a lifetime ago. Proud of you Stacey Abrams and of all women who refuse to be relegated to a status of mediocrity. "Still, I rise!

In theory, high levels of chlorine in tap water could be bad for your gut microbes, but negligible amounts reach the microbes – unless you regularly drink from a swimming pool. Chlorine is not the only problem. Unless you buy pricey carbon filters and reverse osmosis machines, your tap water will still contain traces of common pharmaceutical drugs like ibuprofen, oestrogens, antibiotics, and antidepressants.5 Although levels are low these could have potentially minor cumulative effects: for example, affecting the way our genes function (epigenetics).6 This might seem like a good reason to switch to bottled water, but a survey in 2013 showed it was no better, and thirteen out of twenty bottle brands also had detectable levels of similar chemicals, including endocrine disruptor chemicals such as bisphenol (BPA).7 This chemical can have subtle effects on your genes and sex hormones and is now banned in many countries. BPA has been linked to low birth-weight babies and hormone-associated cancers of the breast, prostate and ovary.8 Manufacturers are responding to public fears by switching to BPA-free plastic, but EU and US regulators say the data is still inconclusive.9

WE WANT TO BE NUMBER ONE

One question is in the mind of every fledgling entrepreneur in the high-tech startups of Beijing’s Zhongguancun neighborhood, the fabrication hubs of Wenzhou, the industrial region of Dalian, and dozens of other Chinese business centers: “Why not me?” Success is all around them…. Young Chinese businesspeople are driven by materialistic desires, eager to “catch up” with the rest of the world, and almost giddy with a sense of multiplying opportunity. They have read Internet chronicles of the triumphs of Yahoo, Silicon Graphics, and Google. They see themselves as the creators of the world’s future Intels, Apples, and Microsofts, and some of them probably will be.

Many of the start-ups now being established by fourth-wave entrepreneurs are Internet-based, using the tools made available by companies such as Alibaba and Tencent to build e-commerce businesses.

Zhang is also deeply involved in an ongoing campaign to restructure Haier and make it into a company where every element is entrepreneurial and every employee regards him or herself as an entrepreneur.

Zhang says his goal is to turn Haier into an “ecosphere”: an organization in which many people have decision-making power, and those at higher levels are only responsible for setting the overall master direction.

Business ambition is only part of what motivates China’s entrepreneurs.

If you don’t create channels for people to rise and don’t tackle issues of fairness or a lack of legal knowledge, then you can create a society with a large underclass that’s poor and a society that’s unstable,” he says.

four factors can be combined into a simple formula: scale + openness + official support + technology = hyperfast growth of consumer markets.

China’s Internet businesses all hire staff to monitor their services, removing or blocking any antigovernment messages.

For entrepreneurial companies, innovation is do or die,

turned subway stations into virtual stores where people shop with their smartphones by snapping bar codes that appear alongside pictures of products.

Selling everyday items, priced marginally lower than those offered in brick-and-mortar stores, and delivering them through the congested streets of China’s cities directly to customers’ homes or offices on fleets of motorcycles and mopeds has proved a hit.

Xiaomi’s use of crowdsourcing to get input on ways of improving its phones and to create a buzz for each new release.

with China’s working population falling by between 2 and 4 million people annually—barely noticeable in a total working-age population of 900 million.

Spock turns back to the small transponder in his hands, the one that is supposedly next to indestructible. It's currently in three pieces. "Nice one," Jim drawls. "What happened?" "Disruptor fire coupled with an impact of approximately nine hundred and eighty newtons caused the shatterproof casing to...shatter." "How'd you get hit with something weighing one hundred kilograms? I don't remember seeing that." Jim is slightly awestruck. "And why aren't you, you know, crushed?" "I was not struck by any external force," Spock explains, placing the inner components of the device carefully on the bordered workspace before him. "Vulcan physiology has a higher density than that of humans. It was my own mass that caused the damage to the transponder." A slow grin spreads across Jim's face. "You fell on your transponder?" "I did not fall," Spock shoots him a vaguely irritated look. "I believe I mentioned that armed Romulans were involved." Jim smiles to himself, because the pissiness is Spock's way of relaxing the strict politeness between them. "Uh-huh." "Pass the hydraulic aspirator.

Today’s innovations are only enough to make a dying economy a bit more efficient. . . . They don’t create a new economy that launches into a new era, as did the mushrooming of steamships, railroads, autos, and the Internet—all 45 years apart. That said, artificial intelligence is on the road to becoming a disruptor. It’s still too early to change the game altogether, but it will increasingly automate almost all left-brain, white-collar work and free up more people to do creative things, like entrepreneurial creation of new and better products and more customized service for customers. That is the modern-day equivalent of the assembly line.

Deciding to put my energy and experience into building a business at the time I did it felt perfectly natural; but when I started to look around I realised that I was in a very small minority of women around my age, leading business.

At the risk of overgeneralizing, private blockchains are backed by incumbents in their respective industries, while public blockchains are backed by the disruptors.

To truly thrive in the digital era—either as a disruptor or those fending off the disruptors—you need to think like a Software Person. Now, a Software Person is not necessarily a developer—it’s anybody who, when faced with a problem, asks the question: “How can software solve this problem?” That’s because being a Software Person is a mindset, not a skill set.

Talk to customers, not the press. Energize your engineers, not journalists. Wait for the visibility to be pull, not push. When the journalists and bloggers reach out to you, and not the other way around, you can be sure you are an “inventor of new values,” and that is your “great event.

Making plans and coming up with ideas is fun. If you could afford to spend all your days just exploring ideas, you’d be pretty happy. But once in a while you must stop planning and coming up with ideas, and actually implement them—which causes frustration and stress.

Once you become an expert at something, you become an incrementalist. It takes a disruptor, someone from outside the industry looking in.

THE AVERAGE PERSON GOES THROUGH ONE DISRUPTOR EVERY 12–18 MONTHS

Inside its warship body, in narrow, unlit, unheated, hard-vacuum spaces, constructor drones struggled to install or complete sensors, displacers, field generators, shield disruptors, laserfields, plasma chambers, warhead magazines, maneuvering units, repair systems and the thousands of other major and minor components required to make a functional warship.

Once you become an expert at something, you become an incrementalist," he says. "It takes a disruptor, someone from outside the industry looking in.

I have long studied and admired other crusaders and disruptors. Their pictures adorn the walls of my firm, such as Martin Luther King, Jr., Mahatma Gandhi, Golda Meir, Nelson Mandela, and Steve Jobs. I know, however, that disruption makes people uncomfortable.

Becoming a disruptor and changing the world for the better is the one thing that makes entrepreneurs successful

Lying on his hard bed that night, he thought about all he had heard and took a decision. He said later, I consulted no one. I had about 150–200 acres of well-irrigated farmland at Pasna village; I had some other pieces of agricultural land too—and I decided to donate them all. I stood up at the meeting on the second day and said so. I used to always feel vaguely guilty about owning land. Returning home to Allahabad, he sent for the tehsildar, seeking a list of all the rural lands he owned in the district, and signed them away to the Bhoodan movement

Pursue the career goals that are right for you. Pursue this path because you’re called to it. Pursue it because you love it. Some of the biggest game-changers and disruptors throughout history were hidden figures, people who didn’t get the recognition but still moved forward, still innovated, still did what they loved. When you do what’s right for you, you never know your true impact on the world.

They are always motivated to go up-market, and almost never motivated to defend the new or low-end markets that the disruptors find attractive. We call this phenomenon asymmetric motivation. It is the core of the innovator’s dilemma, and the beginning of the innovator’s solution.

Cordelia’s stomach tightened. “Radnov and Darobey, by chance?” Stuben stared. “How did you know?” “Go on, just go on.” “They were the ringleaders of a conspiracy to unseat that homicidal maniac Vorkosigan. Vorkosigan was after them, so they were glad to see us.” “I’ll bet. Just like manna from heaven.” “A Barrayaran patrol shuttled down after them. We set up an ambush—stunned them all, except for one Radnov shot with a nerve disruptor. Those guys really play for keeps.

He was a rebel, a disruptor, and, living outside the rules, contemptuous of them. A close Trump friend who was also a good Bill Clinton friend found them eerily similar—except that Clinton had a respectable front and Trump did not.

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Arugula: Loaded with minerals and antioxidants. Delicious cruciferous vegetable that helps protect us against toxins, especially xenohormones (hormone disruptors in pesticides, plastics, pollution, etc.), and helps us detoxify. Protects us against cancer. Loaded with indole-3-carbinol. Tastes great raw or cooked. 10.

In summary, for many companies, China has the potential to become the world’s leading breeding ground for growth and innovation. Being

Xiaomi’s engagement with its users is exemplary in this respect not just because it listens to what they say, but because of the way it acts immediately on the feedback it receives.

When it comes to innovation, foreign companies can study how local enterprises constantly update and augment their products and capabilities, making them capable of penetrating and taking over entire high-technology sectors from the bottom up, as Huawei has done.

In 2013, Hertz Global Rental took a 20 percent stake in China’s biggest car-rental firm, privately owned China Auto Rental. Overnight, the U.S. company’s presence in China expanded from 5 outlets to 700. China Auto Rental got access to Hertz’s customer referrals, one of the main sources of business for car rentals. This sector will only grow in importance as China’s car-rental market grows from $4 billion to $20 billion—equaling America’s.

Tencent’s Pony Ma has surrounded himself with foreign and Chinese executives with deep global experience. Both Mas have used these hires to gain access to international funding and expertise. Lei

more companies to run themselves in a similar way to Chinese companies—operating more in the present, viewing themselves as in a condition of constant flux, and always searching for new business areas they can stretch themselves into.

To succeed predictably, disruptors must be good theorists. As they shape their growth business to be disruptive, they must align every critical process and decision to fit the disruptive circumstance.

But what if it didn’t take money to make money? What’s terrifying about the digitally disrupted future is that this rhetorical question is already being concretely answered. The mindset of the digital disruptor accelerates every possible process by exploiting digital toolsets that are free for tinkering. Economists talk about trends that reduce barriers to entry. The force of digital disruption doesn’t just reduce these barriers, it obliterates them. This allows the disruptor to take new ideas of any size and potential impact and rapidly pursue target customers at almost no cost and in the space of a few days, rather than years. That’s the power of digital disruption, and it will happen to every industry on the planet, whether that company makes digital products or not. That’s why the rise of millions of digital disruptors like Thomas Suarez, whether they go it alone or choose to disrupt on behalf of massively physical firms like Verizon and Unilever, matters so much. These disruptors will do what they do in whatever industry they find themselves planted, ultimately generating significantly more innovation power into the marketplace.

This is the Software Paradox: the most powerful disruptor we have ever seen and the creator of multibillion-dollar net new markets is being commercially devalued, daily.

While he was in school, we needed to pay our bills. I had to get a job. I'd majored in music (piano). I had no business credentials, connections, or confidence, so I started as a secretary to a retail sales broker at Smith Barney in midtown Manhattan. It was the era of Liar's Poker, Bonfire of the Vanities, and Working Girl. Working on Wall Street was exciting. I started taking business courses at night and I had a boss who believed in me, which allowed me to bridge from secretary to investment banker. This rarely happens. Later I became an equity research analyst and subsequently cofounded the investment firm Rose Park Advisors with Clayton Christensen, a professor at Harvard Business School. When I walked onto Wall Street through the secretarial side door, and then walked off Wall Street to become an entrepreneur, I was a disruptor. "Disruptive innovation" is a term coined by Christensen to describe an innovation at the low end of the market that eventually upends an industry. In my case, I had started at the bottom and climbed to the top—now I wanted to upend my own career. No wonder my friend thought I'd lost my sanity. According to Christensen's theory, disruptors secure their initial foothold at the low end of the market, offering inferior, low-margin products. At first, the disrupter's position is weak. For example, when Toyota entered the U.S. market in the 1950s, it introduced the Corona, a small, cheap, no-frills car that appealed to first-time car buyers on a tight budget.

Billions of dollars worth of research knowledge lie dormant at American universities waiting for the right disruptor to come along and create a business.

Crowdsourcing is the ultimate disruptor of distribution because in a most Zen-like fashion, the content is controlled by everyone and no one at the same time.

Disruptive innovation" is increasingly "devastating innovation," or what we call "big bang disruption." Businesses that wait for the disruptor to arrive before figuring out how to incorporate it in their products - as Christensen recommended - are already too late.

that disruptors fuel the breakneck pace of innovation. These are thinkers and dreamers who look at the established players

Exposure to endocrine disruptors (chemicals that interfere with the production, release, transport, metabolism, or elimination of the body’s natural hormones) can occur through air, water, soil, food, and consumer products. These disruptors can mimic naturally occurring hormones, potentially causing overproduction and underproduction of actual hormones. They block the way natural hormones and their receptors are made or controlled. Some

here are a few personal-care items with the most offending endocrine disruptors.

Disruptors challenge assumptions. They shake the status quo. They are curious and creative. They adapt and improvise. They push the boundaries and shatter conventional wisdom. They’d rather forge new ground than blindly salute the flag of the past.

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This book is a compilation of interesting ideas that have strongly influenced my thoughts and I want to share them in a compressed form. That ideas can change your worldview and bring inspiration and the excitement of discovering something new. The emphasis is not on the technology because it is constantly changing. It is much more difficult to change the accompanying circumstances that affect the way technological solutions are realized. The chef did not invent salt, pepper and other spices. He just chooses good ingredients and uses them skilfully, so others can enjoy his art. If I’ve been successful, the book creates a new perspective for which the selection of ingredients is important, as well as the way they are smoothly and efficiently arranged together. In the first part of the book, we follow the natural flow needed to create the stimulating environment necessary for the survival of a modern company. It begins with challenges that corporations are facing, changes they are, more or less successfully, trying to make, and the culture they are trying to establish. After that, we discuss how to be creative, as well as what to look for in the innovation process. The book continues with a chapter that talks about importance of inclusion and purpose. This idea of inclusion – across ages, genders, geographies, cultures, sexual orientation, and all the other areas in which new ways of thinking can manifest – is essential for solving new problems as well as integral in finding new solutions to old problems. Purpose motivates people for reaching their full potential. This is The second and third parts of the book describes the areas that are important to support what is expressed in the first part. A flexible organization is based on IT alignment with business strategy. As a result of acceleration in the rate of innovation and technological changes, markets evolve rapidly, products’ life cycles get shorter and innovation becomes the main source of competitive advantage. Business Process Management (BPM) goes from task-based automation, to process-based automation, so automating a number of tasks in a process, and then to functional automation across multiple processes andeven moves towards automation at the business ecosystem level. Analytics brought us information and insight; AI turns that insight into superhuman knowledge and real-time action, unleashing new business models, new ways to build, dream, and experience the world, and new geniuses to advance humanity faster than ever before. Companies and industries are transforming our everyday experiences and the services we depend upon, from self-driving cars, to healthcare, to personal assistants. It is a central tenet for the disruptive changes of the 4th Industrial Revolution; a revolution that will likely challenge our ideas about what it means to be a human and just might be more transformative than any other industrial revolution we have seen yet. Another important disruptor is the blockchain - a distributed decentralized digital ledger of transactions with the promise of liberating information and making the economy more democratic. You no longer need to trust anyone but an algorithm. It brings reliability, transparency, and security to all manner of data exchanges: financial transactions, contractual and legal agreements, changes of ownership, and certifications. A quantum computer can simulate efficiently any physical process that occurs in Nature. Potential (long-term) applications include pharmaceuticals, solar power collection, efficient power transmission, catalysts for nitrogen fixation, carbon capture, etc. Perhaps we can build quantum algorithms for improving computational tasks within artificial intelligence, including sub-fields like machine learning. Perhaps a quantum deep learning network can be trained more efficiently, e.g. using a smaller training set. This is still in conceptual research domain.

highly doubt they’ll waste more disruptor warheads on the likes of us, which means badabing badaBOOM!” He spread his hands apart, making the sound of an explosion. “There’s no sound in space,” Matt pointed out. Keep glared at him. “Seriously? It’s for dramatic effect.

When we think of straight talk, we imagine a world where everyone takes responsibility for clear, honest, and open communication.” - Eric Douglas

No-salt-added, unsulfured dried tomatoes are also great. Diced and crushed tomatoes in glass jars are preferable to those in cans to avoid ingesting the endocrine disruptor bisphenol-A (BPA) or other can lining material.

Trump is a disruptor, and his disruption falls squarely against the two key pillars of the American ruling elite’s ideology: neoliberalism and neoconservatism. Unlike traditional

Trump just might just do so. If Trump has any of the disruptor left in him after some time in the White House, he could

As Aaron Levie, the founder of the online file storage company Box noted in a tweet in 2014, “Sizing the market for a disruptor based on an incumbent’s market is like sizing a car industry off how many horses there were in 1910.

The thing that all these businesses [Amazon, Facebook and Google] have in common is they are disruptors. The foundations of their businesses are not unique. They have identified a problem that a large number of people were experiencing with an existing business or service and then found a way to make it more accessible / fast / cheap / efficient. If they pitch it right, in a short space of time, the disruptors become successful enough to replace, or at least displace, the conventional product or service in the sector they've made their own.

Despite the relative youth of venture capital, many cryptoasset firms are now turning the model on its head. The disruptors are in danger of being disrupted. For the innovative investor, it’s key to realize that cryptoassets are not only making it easier for driven entrepreneurs to raise money, they’re also creating opportunities for the average investor to get into the earliest rounds of what could be the next Facebook or Uber. Welcome to the colliding worlds of crowdfunding and cryptoassets.

Sin disrupts the harmony and order that God intended for creation, introducing chaos, pain, and brokenness into the world.

Between 1973 and 1991 the diagnosis of brain cancer and soft-tissue sarcoma each increased more than 25 percent among US children.15 We are not getting cancer because we are living longer; we are getting cancer because we are damaging our mitochondria on a daily basis with environmental toxins, poor diet, and endocrine disruptors.

Passyunk Avenue (pronounced pashunk by the locals) cuts a rude swath across an otherwise orderly grid of streets in South Philadelphia. Except for Passyunk (and Moyamensing) Avenue, the neighborhood is composed of a uniform matrix of numbered and named streets—one big street followed by two little streets. Viewed on a map, they form ninety-degree angles and predictable intersections. Passyunk Avenue, or simply Passyunk, is the great disruptor of this comforting geometry. Irregular and meandering, its slashing path intersects with the more obedient byways. Together they form a unique gridwork of inconvenient crossings and odd angles. The cumulative result is one of strangely shaped buildings. Their pointy corners puncture curious cells of dead space—the spaces between. While born of necessity, the resulting architecture created by these acute angles also manages to be strangely beautiful, an exotic visage in a sea of pretty faces. If you’ve ever seen the famous photo of Sophia Loren giving the side-eye to Jayne Mansfield, that’s Passyunk—South Philly’s middle finger to white bread Center City.

The only thing you do have control is yourself, you are the one who has the vision, you are the one who has the ideas about how to accomplish it, and you are the one who must be motivated to do all the work. You are the only Disruptor of your own life, and it's your thoughts that matter most.

All in, I concluded that the total number of disruptors the average adult faces is between thirty and forty.

There is a fine line between doing things your own way and making rookie mistakes. First-time entrepreneurs often insist that the way the world works in some respect is wrong and endeavor to do it differently in their own business. Frequently the result is not that the world is changed or improved, but rather that the entrepreneur learns the hard way why the world is how it is. Sometimes the best advice from experienced people consists of simply telling you how everyone does something. This in itself has great value.

Many disruptors, like adopting a child, say, or starting a new job, would not traditionally be defined as negative, yet they’re still disruptive. Even the most customarily negative life events, like losing a spouse or being fired, sometimes become catalysts for reinvention. Disruptors are simply deviations from daily life.

What if NIH financed research to explore the association between childhood vaccines and the explosion of juvenile diabetes, asthma, and rheumatoid arthritis, and the links between aluminum vaccine adjuvants and the epidemics of food allergies and allergic rhinitis? What if they studied the impacts of sugar and soft drinks on obesity and diabetes, and the association between endocrine disruptors, processed foods, factory farms, and GMOs on the dramatic decline in public health? What would Americans look like if, for fifty years, we had a public health advocate running one of our top health agencies—instead of a Pharma shill?

If you find yourself at a low point, you have the opportunity to completely restructure your thinking. You can start by considering new values, new assumptions about the nature of the opportunity you are pursuing, and new views on your role as a leader. You might even reconsider whether you should be a leader or entrepreneur. Your previous approach was not working; perhaps an entirely new one will.

As Aaron Levie, the founder of the online file storage company Box noted in a tweet in 2014, “Sizing the market for a disruptor based on an incumbent’s market is like sizing a car industry off how many horses there were in 1910.” The other factor that can lead to underestimating a market is neglecting to account for expanding into additional markets. Amazon began as Amazon Books, the “Earth’s Biggest Bookstore.” But Jeff Bezos always intended for bookselling to serve as a beachhead from which Amazon could expand outward to encompass his massive vision of “the everything store.” Today, Amazon dominates the bookselling industry, but thanks to relentless market expansion, book sales represent less than 7 percent of Amazon’s total sales. The same effect can be seen in the financial results of Apple. In the first quarter of 2017, Apple generated $ 7.2 billion from the sale of personal computers, a category the company pioneered and once dominated. That’s a great number to be sure, but, over that same financial quarter, Apple’s total revenue was a whopping $ 78.4 billion, which meant that Apple’s original market accounted for less than 10 percent of its total sales.

In addition, you’re eating tons of soy—again, on the advice of your doctor. You’ve probably been led to believe that soy is a health food—but in reality, it’s a hormone disruptor that may cause your thyroid, the “conductor” of your body’s hormones, to become underactive.

Disruptors do have an important role within any company or industry that is dependent on evolutionary change to stay relevant to the society it serves. But was it possible to get the good that comes from disruptors without the accompanying negative behavior?

Today, ASSA ABLOY describes itself as “the global leader in access solutions.” This shift from lock to access is not merely an update in marketing jargon; it signals the impact of a profound insight that changed ASSA ABLOY from industry leader to ecosystem disruptor. The insight: a key is not just a key. It is also an identity. In a world of mechanical locks, a key is an oddly shaped dongle whose jagged teeth line up pins inside a lock cylinder to release a mechanism that allows for a latch to be withdrawn. But viewed from a different perspective, the key is a signal, a credential. Possession of the key confirms your identity as a “trusted person.

In a world of ecosystems, being early often means waiting for other elements and partners to arrive before the real race starts. For defenders, the question is when to actively engage the new proposition—when to shift resources to the yet-to-be-proven offer and reduce investment in the historical, profitable core. Reacting too early means loss of margin; reacting too late means loss of position. For attackers, the frustration of waiting is amplified as the old regime continues on its own trajectory of incremental improvement. The would-be disruptor is stuck at the starting line, while the finish line moves farther and farther away.

When the entry of an ecosystem disruptor does eventually trigger a competitive response, imitation is often flawed because incumbents focus on the shape of the offer, rather than on the process by which the value architecture was constructed, and through which the critical partners were aligned.

The ship left the construction bay of the factory craft with most of its fitting-out still to be done. Accelerating hard, its course a four-dimensional spiral through a blizzard of stars where it knew that only danger waited, it powered into hyperspace on spent engines from an overhauled craft of one class, watched its birthplace disappear astern with battle-damaged sensors from a second, and tested outdated weapon units cannibalized from yet another. Inside its warship body, in narrow, unlit, unheated, hard-vacuum spaces, constructor drones struggled to install or complete sensors, displacers, field generators, shield disruptors, laserfields, plasma chambers, warhead magazines, maneuvering units, repair systems and the thousands of other major and minor components required to make a functional warship. Gradually,

Free their minds and their genitals will follow.

Disrupting a digital platform is anything but mysterious.

Furthermore, many of the same toxins that squeeze the life out of the thyroid affect other systems in the body—weight control, blood sugar balance, even proper brain/body function. These toxins, mostly endocrine disruptors, appear in hundreds of cosmetics, plastic bottles, metal cans, toys, and the pesticides on food that isn’t organic. They interfere with production, release, transportation, activity, and elimination of natural hormones, such as thyroid, insulin, estrogen, and testosterone—and as a result may cause a wide range of problems with the brain and body.

DISRUPTOR 3: Stomach-Acid Blockers Let me count the reasons acid-blocking drugs such as Zantac, Prilosec, Nexium, and Protonix are to be avoided at all costs. Most of these drugs are proton pump inhibitors (PPIs), which reduce the amount of stomach acid. However, as long as it stays where it belongs, stomach acid serves an important function.

Sent from my CrackBerry Intergalactic Kommunikator that doubles as an Illuvian Disruptor Death Ray.

So why did Blockbuster not create Netflix, and why did Sears not create Amazon? One reason is the innovator’s dilemma, where disruptors of old paradigms have trouble disrupting themselves, largely because of good management.

Endocrine disruptors like Bisphenol A, which is found in plastic water bottles and the linings of canned foods, are chemicals that can affect sexual orientation and behavior. A report by the National Library of Medicine stated, “Bisphenol A (BPA) is an estrogenic endocrine disruptor widely used in the production of plastics.

Endocrine disruptors like Bisphenol A, which is found in plastic water bottles and the linings of canned foods, are chemicals that can affect sexual orientation and behavior. A report by the National Library of Medicine stated, “Bisphenol A (BPA) is an estrogenic endocrine disruptor widely used in the production of plastics. Increasing evidence indicates that in utero BPA exposure affects sexual differentiation and behavior…We hypothesized that BPA may disrupt epigenetic programming of gene expression in the brain…BPA exposure induced persistent, largely sex-specific effects on social and anxiety-like behavior, leading to disruption of sexually dimorphic behaviors.”232

digital banking should be a joint effort of various groups, such as technology, marketing, branding and channel management.

Indeed, companies become legendary precisely because of the quality of the people that work for them: Nordstrom. Disney. Apple. Starbucks. The Four Seasons.

As we boldly enter the new decade, we need to make sure that we do so in a way that fosters individual talents and preserves the entrepreneurial spirit rising in Africa; as young people are rising as risk-takers, inventors, disruptors and thought leaders.

Our world is changing fast, but all is not lost in the race to automation. With the rise of the robotic, the focus is shifting from people power to intellectual capital. With or without a certificate, a disruptor’s mind can foresee limitless opportunities in the newly emerging economy. You can create your own path using the power of the internet.

Rather than setting goals or targets, companies are instead concentrating on ways of strengthening their capabilities to improvise and innovate in the face of immediate challenges and opportunities.

Today, Ma’s payment system, now known as Alipay, is responsible for processing half of all online transactions in China.

We don’t want to be number one in China. We want to be number one in the world,

China’s future, economically, socially, and—eventually—politically, rests in the hands of its entrepreneurs.

For a business to thrive in the longer term, he believed, it would need a reputation for reliability and quality.

They built their companies by meeting the needs of their customers, often in businesses that no one else saw as feasible.

From the start, there was also another side to Huawei’s business: regardless of a customer’s size, the company would always be willing to come in and look for ways of improving the operations of its clients.

The government has long known that for China to achieve its goal of becoming a developed economy, the country must be an innovation power.

China is now the world’s biggest industrial robot market, accounting for one-fifth of all sales.

They firmly believe that success will come from pushing onward, takings risks, and reacting quickly to opportunities; from constantly searching for small advantages that will allow them to steal a brief march on their immediate competitors, and larger ones that will enable them to enter a new business area; from building a scale that will make it hard for others to rival their cost base; and from finding new markets, be they emerging new centers of consumption within China or overseas.

It processes more than half a trillion dollars annually—five times more than the country’s second-biggest system, Tencent’s Tenpay, and over 20 times more than China UnionPay, the state-owned body with a monopoly over China’s bank card authorization network.

If you plan, you lose. If you don’t plan, you win

Alibaba’s strategy is not opportunism pure and simple. Rather, it is a form of opportunism that draws on a vision

Alibaba was founded with a simple mission to help small business owners make money. But our next challenge is to join forces with the people of China and beyond to build an ecosystem that can help even more people make a decent living and push for change that benefits everyone.

Lenovo did not make itself the world’s biggest personal-computer maker by copying American competitors. Instead, it applied beyond China’s borders the practices it developed for China, while, at the same time, consciously redesigning itself to be an international business.

these are hugely entrepreneurial businesses, run in risk-taking manner, embracing innovation and change, and that running them is a group of extraordinary individuals.

Many of today’s most successful Chinese entrepreneurs, most of them now in their 40s, 50s, and 60s, had no experience in business when they started their companies.

metabolic disruptors: sugar and alcohol digestive and immune disruptors: wheat and dairy products processed vegetable oils.

strategies which primarily focus on reducing costs will be less effective than those which are based on offering products and services in more innovative ways. As we see today, established companies are being put under extreme pressure by emerging disruptors and innovators from other industries and countries. The same could be said for countries that do not recognize the need to focus on building their innovation ecosystems accordingly.

Sizing the market for a disruptor based on an incumbent’s market is like sizing a car industry off how many horses there were in 1910.

Ma declared, “If banks don’t change, we will change banks.

The following year, building on Alipay’s success, he set up a finance arm to make small loans to Alibaba.com users. A borrower’s creditworthiness was gauged using two key metrics: the total value of business it conducted through Alibaba.com and the ratings it received from its customers.

At the heart of China’s entrepreneurial spirit lie three core elements: pride, ambition, and a shared cultural heritage.

Figures such as Jack Ma, Pony Ma, and Robin Li never questioned China’s system as such, but they moved beyond it rapidly, displaying a sense of self-assurance, as if they felt entitled to succeed, that would have been impossible to imagine in the previous two generations.

NGOs, opportunists, and business people invest in disruptors around the world because these individuals challenge their competitors and create new business opportunities for them.

When we cease to view illness as a concrete, autonomous thing with a predetermined trajectory—and when we have the proper help and a willingness to look both within and without—we can start to exercise agency in the matter. After all, if disease is a manifestation of something in our lives rather than merely their cruel disruptor, we have options: we can pursue new understandings, ask new questions, perhaps make new choices. We can take our rightful place as active participants in the process, rather than remain its victims, helpless but for our reliance on medical miracle workers.

Don't fear the disruptors; embrace them. Collaborative competition is the key to unlocking innovation and achieving lasting success.

The universe sends disruptors along when we’ve gotten into a pattern that’s too comfortable,

That episode of the show taught me a lot about boundaries and the importance of respecting other people's fears and vulnerabilities. It also revealed that the people who know us best can sometimes use that knowledge to be incredibly insensitive, even cruel.

Safer Serving and Storing Some chemicals in the plastics, glues, dyes, and coatings used in food packaging, including storage containers, dishes, and utensils, may pose a risk to babies and children. These chemicals are endocrine disruptors, which means that they interrupt the normal functioning of hormones. This can lead to negative effects such as an increased risk of obesity and attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) symptoms, a change in the timing and effect of puberty, and other gastrointestinal and metabolic health issues. As a result, the American Academy of Pediatrics recommends that you do not microwave food and beverages in plastic or put plastics in the dishwasher; instead, stock your kitchen with alternatives to plastic, such as stainless steel or glass. If possible, avoid plastics with the recycling codes 3, 6, and 7 altogether. You can further reduce your baby’s risk by choosing feeding plates, cups, and utensils made from stainless steel, silicone, or bamboo, and storing any leftover foods in glass containers rather than plastic ones.