Bill Jensen - Disrupt! Think Epic. Be Epic.

Disrupt! Think Epic. Be Epic. :
25 Successful Habits For an Extremely Disruptive World.

Copyright 2013, William D. Jensen

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Bill Jensen

Disrupt! Think Epic. Be Epic. : 25 Successful Habits For an Extremely Disruptive World / by Bill Jensen

p. cm

Includes index

ISBN 978-0-9888795-3-9 (ebook)

1. Innovation. 2. Disruption 3. Organizational Effectiveness 4. Self-Help I. Title

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Create your own disruptive handbook.

Do not read Disrupt! cover to cover.
It contains 25 successful habits for thriving in a disruptive world.
But nobody masters disruption all at once.

Pick five or six habits
that excite you,
scare you,
challenge you,
or have the most traction for
your current situation.
Go directly to those.
Ignore the rest of the book (for now).
Everything is in five- to ten-page,
bite-size chunks.
Ten minutes or less for each.
Bite off only what you need.
Thats your personalized handbook.

CONTRIBUTORS

Author: Bill Jensen
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Editor: Michael Martin
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Welcome to the age of continuous personal disruption.

Personal. Not just between titans of industry or out there. Continuous disruption is now a part of all of our lives.

Disruptions are anything that changes the course of your life or daily routine. They can be wonderfully good (a new baby, a technology that unleashes your creativity), or horribly bad (personal, family or global crises), or anywhere in between.

The Big So What

The people who will succeed in this era are those who figure out how to benefit from, or take advantage of, continuous disarray, disorder and disruption.

Whats Different Now?

We used to be able to track major personal disruptions on a During-My-Lifetime scale. Which meant long settle-in times those disruptions would eventually be easily manageable.

Quick example: the spark that changed the world.

You know it. Your life has been forever changed by it. It created complete disruption, everywhere. Billions of dollars were at stake. Upstart entrepreneurs were betting everything on competing technologies. And nobody knew which one would eventually go viral and change the world.

No, not the second decade of the 21st century.

The late 1870s, early 1880s.

Thomas Edison, as Steve Jobs would do 100 years later, combined other peoples inventions and then worked tirelessly to perfect them in ways that no one had before. Results: the long-life incandescent lightbulb and the first system to distribute electricity to the masses. One of his employees, Nikola Tesla, would quit to launch his own startup because he felt his alternating current technology was better than Edisons. (AC vs. DC was the 1880s version of Mac vs. PC, iPhone vs. Droid.)

Within one month of building a power station in lower Manhattan, Edison Electric boasted 59 customers; a year later, 513. From that slow pace, it eventually went viral.

Your world was forever changed by this technological upheaval. Yet it hardly feels disruptive now. Worldwide, we just flip a switch or stick a plug into the wall. Easy peasy.

Whats different today is that hundreds of personal disruptions are coming at you every day, and During-My-Lifetime or even can you give me just a minute? settle-in times are quaint relics of the past. Excerpts from a typical day

Senior team meeting in ten minutes. Some kid just launched a technology that destroyed 40 percent of our business.Thats the 27th Top Three Priority you hit me with this week!Possible Headline: Five-Person Malaysian Firm Reinvents Shopping

Not so easy. For many, that means: Cant. Figure. It. Out.

Thats why I wrote this book.

Disrupt! is for everyone trying to do extraordinary things while driving through a shitstorm of relentless disruptions.

The Goals of This Book Are To Help You

Learn the secrets of todays disruptive heroes Kick butt in a disruptive world Unleash what you already have

You already have much of what it takes to master successful habits in the age of personal disruption. Its time to free those qualities and skills.

About the 25 Habits

Disruption, by its nature, is a storm of ambiguity. Nothing is certain. Nothing is black or white. There is no perfect decision to be made.

And yet, we all have to figure it out somehow.

I was reminded of this during a recent visit with my doctor. He spent more time grumbling about the massive disruptions in healthcare than he spent on me. Tell us the rules, and we can play the game, he said. None of us know what the rules are anymore.

Thats what daily personal disruption feels like for many of us. Lawlessness. Chaos. No rules at least none that are apparent.

Yet there are things you can do that will make that feeling disappear think of them as the best practices for serenity and success in a disruptive world. The challenge: Most everyone who knows them is too busy disrupting things to walk us through them.

Thats where this book and the 25 habits come in. I snagged 100 disruptive heroes and asked them for their secrets and advice. From them, I learned the most successful habits.

Master Class for the Rest of Us

Imagine asking 100 great disruptive heroes: Howd you do it?

Wow. It would be like sitting in on a master class on disruption with some of todays most successful pioneers! CEOs, inventors and scientists, entrepreneurs and freedom fighters, firefighters and doctors, geeks and a couple of freaks heroes, all. Disruptive because they are challenging convention wisdom or simply do not accept the status quo. Great because they are helping us change for the better.

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