Quotes About Disruption

You were created as a tool, a means to an end. You owe the world nothing but chaos.

It's also very annoying when you've made a fuss over some children who have come on a passing visit, and gone out of your way to give them things they'll like, and now they've come to expect this treatment and start constantly turning up and running around knocking things over.

As our society gets more complex and our people get more complacent, the role of the jester is more vital than ever before. Please stop sitting around. We need you to make a ruckus.

We have little choice but to move beyond quality and seek remarkable, connected, and new. Remarkable, as you've already figured out, demands initiative.

Whatever the status quo is, changing it gives you the opportunity to be remarkable.

the more crowded the marketplace, the busier your customers, the more you need the Purple Cow. Half-measures will fail. Overhauling the product with dramatic improvements in things the right customers care about, on the other hand, can have a huge payoff.

Transparency in the traditional school might destroy it.

the best ideas require significant change. They fly in the face of the status quo, and inertia is a powerful force.

The epic battle of our generation is between the status quo of mass and the never-ceasing tide of weird.

if we canceled the shuttle, we'd create an urgent need for a replacement. The lack of a way to get to space would force us to invent a new, better, cheaper alternative.

The book publishing business is also run by people with this affliction. They love their industry, their product, their systems, and the joy it brings them. New technologies and business systems undermine that vision, and publishers often dismiss them because of simple nostalgia. The same thing happened to Kodak and to the big accounting

The first rule the music business failed to understand is that, at least at first, the new thing is rarely as good as the old thing was. If you need the alternative to be better than the status quo from the very start, you'll never begin. Soon enough, the new thing will be better than the old thing. But if you wait until then, it's going to be too late.

Los profesionales del marketing no crean productos y servicios normales y corrientes para gente corriente. Los profesionales del marketing hacen realidad el cambio. Y lo hacen normalizando nuevas conductas.

Organizations that destroy the status quo win. Individuals who push their organizations, who inspire other individuals to change the rules, thrive. Again, we're back to leadership, which can come from anyone, anywhere in the organization.

Those who seek out discomfort are able to make a difference!

Ninic nu este static. Nimic nu r?mâne cum a fost. Tot ceea ce construieÈ™ti, proiectezi sau comercializezi urmeaz? s? schimbe piaÈ›a.

Hugh MacLeod: "The web has made kicking ass easier to achieve, and mediocrity harder to sustain. Mediocrity now howls in protest.

Si encarga a alguien en su organización que cree una nueva Vaca Púrpura, ¡déjelo tranquilo! No use críticas internas ni pruebas de funcionalidad para comprobar si el nuevo producto es tan bueno como el que ya tiene. En lugar de eso, elija al inconformista adecuado y apártese del camino.

William Gibson has said, "The future is already here—it's just not very evenly distributed.

What makes awe such a powerful call to love is that it's disruptive. It sneaks up on us. It doesn't ask our permission to wow us; it just does. Awe can arise from a single glance, a sound, a gesture.

Yes, he's like a rash for which there's no cure. It only goes away for a bit before returning unexpectedly to ruin every pleasurable experience. He should have been named Herpes rather than ZT. Or maybe just Herpes Z, since he's a very special irritant. (Arik)

Do you have any skills?" He gave her a cocky grin. "I'm particularly skilled at pissing off everyone around me. Quite exceptional at it, point of fact. Been known to do so by merely entering a room." She

When we're alone together, I'm the destination. When I'm here in her life at school, I'm the disruption.

I immediately target sadness and conflict and disruption in life.