Four years of research. Hundreds of in-depth interviews. All wrapped into one book to turbocharge your transformation. Now in english, spanish, and portuguese.
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Pascal Finette has nailed it. That’s not surprising because when it comes to disrupting disruption, no one I know has done more work on the topic than Pascal, and his experience shows. Brilliantly written and chock full of enlightening examples, start your reading here if you are even considering undertaking disruptive change.
William Pasmore Ph.D., Professor, Columbia University SVP, Center for Creative Leadership
A lucid, insightful, and practical guide to help you assess possible futures so you can navigate your way to your optimum outcome. Essential and entertaining reading for every leader in this volatile and uncertain world.
Riaz Shah Global Learning Leader, EY
Brilliant read from cover to cover. Pascal Finette has a unique gift in his ability to envision the future in a 100X way and then translate that into practical, actionable advice for leaders. He has long been my favorite speaker and thought leader on the topic of disruption, and this deep dive read is a gift to those who wish to take innovation to the next level.
Mary Grove Managing Partner at Bread & Butter Ventures Former Director of Google for Entrepreneurs
If you have been hoping that change and disruption are decelerating, you need a wake-up call and a plan! Disrupt Disruption is exactly that wake-up call and guidebook for creating a plan. In an amazingly concise book, Pascal Finette lays out the dynamics of disruption, how it threatens established business, and how to lead your organization to disrupt disruption. While every decade has had massive forces pressuring business as usual, this one will likely be even more challenging. AI, climate tech, and global realignment will pressure every company. Prepare yourself for these changes by reading this insightful and actionable book.
Barak Berkowitz Experienced Tech Executive Former Director of Operations and Strategy of MIT Media Lab
Pascal Finette has developed a clear and actionable approach that leaders can take to leverage the disruptions of exponential change successfully. He builds on his own consulting experience and a deep plunge through the literature, distilling it all into clear, communicable, and usable strategy.
Alan Lesgold Emeritus Professor, School of Education at the University of Pittsburgh
Popular stories about disruption, retold countless times, fail to identify the true underlying forces leading to the demise of former market leaders. When we get the stories wrong, we risk learning the wrong lessons from recent history. We miss critical opportunities to enable real transformation and unlock sustainable relevance for our organizations.
In his book Disrupt Disruption, Pascal Finette calls bullsh☠️t on the popular narrative and offers a holistic view of the dynamics of disruption. Drawing on hundreds of exclusive interviews with successful innovators and leaders of incumbent organizations that have weathered paradigm shifts in their industries, Finette provides a perspective-shifting, practical framework to support a new understanding of disruption.
Disrupt Disruption arms you with battle-tested principles to redefine organizational strategy and personal leadership and seize your preferred future.
Disrupt Disruption’s insights are based on a four-year-long (and ongoing) research project by radical. Starting with a two-year exploration into the fundamental forces shaping disruption and the resulting challenges for incumbent organizations, which led to the development of the unique and highly practical State Change Model of Disruption, the team spent the last two years performing hundreds of in-depth interviews with the most successful innovators and disruptors across industries and geographies.
Challenged by Andy Billings, Head of Creative Profitability at Electronic Arts, who, in one of our first interviews, said: “Is it really possible to be planful, thoughtful, effective, well organized, and linear in managing disruptive change? When you talk to the people on the front lines, they will tell you that it doesn’t look like what it is being described as in the books”, we set out to find out what the strategists and operators at the frontlines do to be successful in today’s world.
The result is a unique body of work, distilling insights from our practitioner interviews, numerous conversations with experts, and careful literature research into a practical, highly applicable framework for transformation and sustainable relevance.
As part of our research, we spoke with hundreds of the most accomplished practitioners and thought leaders in the world of innovation, disruption, and transformation. Many of these conversations we continue to make available in our Disrupt Disruption podcast.
Together with our guests, we explore disruption from a first principle’s basis, identify the real drivers behind disruption and develop practical, hands-on advice on how to “disrupt”.