Interview: Is There a Science Behind the Disruptive Leadership Model?

One of the best paths to building an enterprise that will face distress is to become complacent with success.  Success can be a trap that fills leaderships’ mind with a false sense of security.  In most cases,

Interview: Disrupt or Be Disrupted: How to Future-Proof Your Leadership

How Does Your Company Avoid Being Disrupted? 

Unless you are going on a romantic ride through Central Park, NYC, no one uses the horse and buggy as a mode of transportation.  Now we have planes, trains and automobiles.  When you look at carrier pigeons, you see a similar pattern.  The telegraph disrupted the pigeon's value.  Later the telegraph was disrupted by the phone, then fax and now internet.  What stops

Interview: Can Intentional Disruption Help Small Businesses Grow?

While it may be easier to understand how CEOs, like Steve Jobs, can effectively disrupt large corporations to innovate, can the same mindset be employed in small companies?  In this interview, I address why this counterintuitive approach to creating breakthroughs can apply to an organization of any size.  In fact, because

Interview: Can Leaders Create Problems to Spark Breakthroughs?

In this episode of the Drop In CEO podcast Ted Santos, a leadership disruptor and creator of the Disruptive Leadership Model, discusses strategies for fostering breakthrough growth in organizations. Ted shares his unique approach to advising CEOs, which includes

How Can CEOs Train & Develop to Lead Intentional Disruptions?

While many people hold the title of leader, they are, in reality, serving as a manager.  Why?  Managers control what occurs in time and space, while leaders disrupt what occurs in time and space.  While this may sound counterintuitive, executives can