Seven Ways of Thinking that Promote Disruptive Innovation

In today’s complex, dynamic world, having a disruptive mindset is imperative, both for starting a new business venture, growing a business, or protecting existing market dominance. In the current state of disruptive innovation, you either position yourself to disrupt or be disrupted. Every human venture starts from the mind; our thinking faculty and capability. The starting point for all disruptive innovation springs from a single line of thought, and that ‘thought’ transforms into a promising idea that is viable to change the trajectory of an industry

Think Differently
If you think the way everybody is thinking, you will likely get the same results everyone gets. But if you dare think differently, you are almost certain to experience a different result. If you look back over the years of great minds that led a disruptive entry into an existing or created a new market, you will notice their thinking pattern is quite different from their peers. Walt Disney revolutionized the entertainment industry by creating a different stream of entertainment, including films, theme parks, and comics.

Think Possibility
If you think it is possible, then you are right. If you also think it is impossible, you are also right. You cannot exceed the bandwidth of your thought process and belief. The first time the Wright brothers came up with a business plan to invent the first successful aircraft with unique controls that made the fixed-wing powered flight possible, most people saw impossibility. But the brothers were convinced that this is possible, and the time is ripe. As they thought of a possibility, they made their dream possible.

Think New
The challenge for disruptors is that you always have to come up with something new. The way to do this is by thinking new, new ways, new features, new processes, new products, new deals, new partnerships, new markets, new possibilities. Apple revolutionized the world with iPod but has created new products over the years to become the most valued company of all time. Imagine if Apple stopped at iPod because it was one of the successful new devices in the market. Over the years, we have seen new products from Apple like MacBook, iPad, iPhone, Apple Watch, Apple TV, and AirPod.

Think Better
There is always the opportunity to make something better. It takes a person with a disruptive mindset to think of making something better. Blackberry was in the smartphone business before Apple and Samsung and were crushing the market globally, but Apple and Samsung displaced them. They make significant sales by creating better smartphones than the incumbent. For your product or service offering, think of better ways to improve them before someone else takes your market share and position

Think Ahead
Are you stuck in your current game? A good coach does not think only of the current game but as the next line of games and adjust strategy and player roster where required. The leading disrupting companies of the 21st century, also known as the Exponential Organizations (ExO), are not only thinking about the current state of disruption but the future. The future always favored those who are prepared. Elon Musk is thinking ahead of the culture by infusing AI with the human through Neuralink. Ube is yet to achieve mainstream autonomous service, but the company is already thinking about flying taxi service.

Think About Others
There are many businesses out there, who for the goal of profit, eschew all manners of decency, ethics, and humanity. Think about others, think about what negative change you may be introducing to those around you. Think about our planet; we are all stakeholders of mother earth. Think about not only yourself but what you can do for others, your industry, your country, and the world. Let us be ethically and socially responsible.

Think Always
The pace of disruptive change places enormous demands to continue to think. Thinking always is a lifestyle for disruptors. It would help if you thought continually think along a different continuum; strategically and tactically, locally and globally, and micro and macro. By thinking always, you can inspire innovation and culture change that will propel in attaining new and sustainable growth. Do not stop thinking; make it a lifestyle. Create the time and the right environment that allows you to think productively.

Written by: Abraham King, 2021

Faithfulness

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What is faithfulness?
Why faithfulness matter?
How do we measure faithfulness?
How can one be faithful?

Faithful in your professional duties, elevates your role
Faithful in the opportunities around you, open more doors
Faithful in that low pay job, unlocks a high pay job
Faithful in managing a few, expect dozen at your doorsteps

Faithful in little things qualifies you for the big stuff
Faithful in the big stuff, gets you bigger stuff
If a quarter of us choose to be faithful today
This world will be a better place today

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The Killer

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The killer seeks pardon from death
The rapist does not want to be raped

The thief does not fancy being robbed
The judge rather not face judgment

The troll detest trolls
The rich forever feeds off the poor

The liar expects to be told the truth
Gossipers hates their gossips

The cheater abhors cheats
What if we are all selfish bastards

Then this world is lost
You can save the world

3 Ways of Not Becoming Another #MeToo Headline

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We live in a civilised world, but not everyone is cultured. Amongst us are predators and manimals (men who behave like animals), without a modicum of self-control and dignity of self-respect, with the basic instinct to sexually devour another, thereby making their victim helpless, empty, depressed and damaged. This topic is not a one-sided issue, as there are women devils in Prada who are no less than their men counterparts who abuse positions of power and violate the sanctity of others. This fact is that Influential and famous people have, historically, had carte blanche to treat others in a way they would never, under any circumstances, accept for themselves.

I am not going to over-flog this topic that has garnered millions of editorial posts and articles these few months since the beginning of the #MeToo movement. TIME articulated the very concept of this movement as a “ground-breaking anti-sexual assault and women’s empowerment movements that has upended the public conversation about women’s issues around the world, and elevated the global consciousness surrounding the obstacles women encounter in their daily lives, both personal and professional”. Sure, there is a way out of this, if there is a way for people to transgress another soul continually. (more…)

10 Things We Can All Do That Doesn’t Hurt

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The health of a nation is the wealth of nation.  It is not just physical health but our mental and moral health. There are things which cost little but go a long way to increasing our commonwealth. This has to do with our individual values and how we relate with one another. Check out these ten little things you can start doing that cost little and doesn’t hurt;

  1. It doesn’t hurt to admit you are wrong, it frees the mind to learn
  2. It doesn’t hurt to live a principled life. Enough of the mess already
  3. It doesn’t hurt to give 110% effort. The extra is stuff of the extraordinary
  4. It doesn’t hurt to complement and compliment others, it is worthwhile investment
  5. It doesn’t hurt to live within your means, that’s no 1 key to financial success
  6. It doesn’t hurt to be always set a good example, that’s your legacy
  7. It doesn’t hurt to say the truth; the truth sets you free
  8. It doesn’t hurt to take responsibility, that’s the first step to becoming a leader
  9. It doesn’t hurt to duck your pride, pride goes before fall
  10. It doesn’t hurt to help the sick and the needy, you are the real MVP.

Where Do You Stand

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I stand for equality
I stand for justice
I stand for righteousness
I stand for education
I stand for freedom
I stand for transparency
I stand for governance
I stand for good hygiene
I stand for food for all
I stand for water for all
I stand for power for all
I stand for shelter for all

Where do you stand?

Stand

We Will Not Be Shaken

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We will not be shaken by incessant prejudice and recurrent malignancy

We will not be shaken by irrelevant pressure to do be relevant

We will not be shaken by unpopular ideas that craves public attention

We will not be shaken by evil pronunciation against us, it shall fail

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We shall not be shaken by those who lost hope in us, we will bounce back

We shall not be shaken by hidden motives and impulsive malpractice

We will not be shaken by the opinions of others

We will not be shaken by the false voice of the majority

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Dear Future Me

You have work to do, so do it
You are going to get hurt but forgive
You will be talked about but ignore
You will be misunderstood but press on
You will be attacked but you will prevail
You will be rich but stay humble
You may be discouraged but you can’t quit
You may lack but don’t steal
You may be disrespected but you can’t lose your honor
You may lose friends but the end is better
Keep doing good, you will not lose your reward

The Script and the Play

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On a hill far away stood my rescue team!

I am being caged in a makeshift hole where I took temporary residence as a result of a civil war unrest in my town. I struggled with malnutrition, pain, physical injuries and untold darkness. My life is missing from reality and reality is shifted from my life. It seems I had no control, writhing in my pain, I lost all hope. I heard there is a rescue team, it was all a rumor, and my day never met the savior. I want to believe a lie to lift my spirit but all I hear is the sound of war and the resulting casualties. My city is destroyed, my mind is distraught and my hope is dead. No tales by the moonlight, no soccer, no more amusement, no more happiness. I dreamt the end but I went through hell.  May be, there is a life after death, this is looking like death after life and seems I am running someone else’s script.

My loss was my all but my all is gone. I never stood a chance, and see my very existence zapped from me. But on the very day I was going to bid time the longest bye, I became woken. I took to conference my faculty and my heart. I spoke to myself, “there is no fancy way to die, but I can create my own fantasy”.  I am crippled with fear, wounded in body, and sullen in feelings but all I am doing is fulfilling another man’s script. I can write my own script and be the main act. Be it as it may, re-write defeated by uncontrollable circumstances but redirected by the will of my power and exertion of strength. By this very act, I survived till the rescue team came. This is the game changer! You are the script and the play. The real defeat is not what happens to us but what happens within us.

Tapping into the Power of Compliment

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As a manager, a good compliment to your team might just save your best employees from going to the competition. As parent a real compliment can help reinforce positive behaviors in your kids. A fine compliment can help mend a broken relationship and restore hope. A true compliment to a neighbor or colleague can improve a sense of belongingness and acceptance. A timely compliment can inspire great things in others. A sincere compliment can uplift spirits and empower lost souls. A good compliment is not pride, is not flirtatious, is not artificial and it is not far-reaching for anything than admiring good traits and qualities in the other person.

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