Disruptor: How to Challenge the Status Quo and Unlock Innovation
Every organizational leader tasked with spurring growth faces fluctuating markets and changing consumer behaviors. It's no longer enough for them to avoid complacency. Today, forward-thinking creatives, entrepreneurs, and executives must strive to actually evolve and unlock innovation.
In Disruptor: How to Challenge the Status Quo and Unlock Innovation, Alex Gonzalez profiles some of the biggest industry leaders and asks, "How do you push boundaries and find unconventional solutions when the status quo of most organizations is to preserve normalcy and stability?"
Each chapter offers insightful lessons, mindset shifts, and practical solutions on how to be a disruptor in your organization. Readers will learn:
- How to understand organizational and personal risk and its impact on innovation
- Why it's vital to embrace diverse perspectives - not just in terms of demographics, but also based on geographic locations and life experiences
- How to embrace the 3 C's (Conflict, Confusion, and Creativity) to challenge the status quo and drive organizational transformation
- Why customer obsession requires understanding your customer's needs better than they do, and then advocating for them
- Why business acumen and change leadership are essential for disruption
Throughout the book, Gonzalez blends personal observations from corporate, entrepreneurial, and civic roles with first-hand accounts and insights from other corporate leaders, entrepreneurs, and creators. He tells stories about disruptors in global corporations, fast-growing startups, movie studios, and high-end restaurants. And readers will join him on his journey as a cultural and corporate 'contradiction, ' which empowered Gonzalez to embrace and pursue innovation with other leaders.
By the end of the book, you'll have a better understanding of not only what it means to be a disruptor but also why today's most successful and innovative organizations depend on them.
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"Innovation is the job of every leader, no matter what role you play in the organization. This book will challenge you to face your own fears of taking risks, offering the courage and a plan to challenge how things have 'always been done' in your business. Through this book, Alex acts as an excellent coach for any leader looking to unlock innovation in their organization." Catie Griggs, President of Business Operations, Seattle Mariners
"No matter the size of your business, if you're a leader who wants to drive fundamental and lasting change in your organization, you have to start with innovation. Alex explores the behaviors, skills, and actions needed. He takes an honest look at what it means to take risks as a leader, and the behaviors and skills necessary to unlock innovation. This book is an essential read for entrepreneurs and corporate leaders alike." Stephanie Stuckey, CEO, Stuckey's
"Alex believes everyone has a story worth telling and his superpower is bringing those stories to life. That artfulness is on full display in this book, which discovers the common insights from startups across different stripes. I wish I had this book when I started my first company."Marc Gorlin, Founder and CEO, Roadie, Inc.
"Alex comes from corporate. He has worked in the startup world. And he's lending that experience to a civic role. And that's what makes him so credible. He knows firsthand how hard change can be. People inside these organizations may push against creative ideas. As they do, the innovators put themselves at risk. But Alex shares with them-as he shares throughout this book-one reality: progress hinges on the disruptors."Jay Bailey, President and CEO, H.J. Russell Innovation Center for Entrepreneurs
