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I’m Listening…Tell me Your Disruption
November began at a breakneck pace. My latest book, Provoke, released, and the Provoke trailer debuted. If you haven’t seen it yet, you can go to the Linda Bernardi YouTube channel and check out both versions- rock or techno. I’ve also been working behind the scenes, with my team on the marketing campaign as well…
You’re never too small to disrupt
The ability to bring about positive disruption within a business has nothing to do with your place on the org chart. Try telling that to most employees. One comment that comes up every time I speak is that the audience participants feel powerless in their large corporations. Generally I am speaking with MBA students or…
Should women be promoted because they’re women?
Over the last decade, I have had the privilege of mentoring about 15 women and about five men in entrepreneurship. It’s a fulfilling activity; I’m a big believer in mentoring, as my mentors changed my life. I like to pay it forward. However, with my female mentees I am often faced with anxiety when one…
Does IPO Stand for “Irresponsibly Promoted Obscenity”?
Groupon postponed its IPO. No surprise. The company, once a darling, retreated when investors raised serious questions about its earnings. Now it’s in pre-IPO quiet period again, so it seems to be a good time to discuss this. We are playing a dangerous game with IPOs today, possibly one more dangerous than the pre-burst gold…
Dreamers aren’t intimidated
Last week I was with a group of brilliant engineers and computer scientists from a cross section of large corporations. The subject was leadership in engineering and computer science, based on my concept of Innovation-Based Leadership ™. It was a super-smart group, but something was amiss. At the start of our session, there was silence…
What would Steve Do?
In writing Provoke, I drew on Apple and Steve Jobs repeatedly to illustrate the importance of disruption leading to innovation and excellence. Apple is the gold standard for what a company could do if it allowed itself the permission to actively disrupt the status quo. Under the late Jobs, Apple disrupted the music industry with…