The document discusses disruption in business and provides steps for how individuals can disrupt themselves. Some key points:
- The largest companies in various industries like accommodations, taxis, media, and retail don't own traditional assets in those industries.
- Disruption comes from exploring outside one's comfort zone and being willing to risk what you have built.
- Many jobs are at risk of automation and computerization in the coming years, so business as usual is dead.
- Individuals need to internalize beliefs that every obstacle is an opportunity and that one person can make a difference through determination in order to disrupt themselves.
- Lifelong learning is important as technology will impact careers and companies.
3. Disruption
• The biggest accommodation provider owns no hotels
• The biggest taxi company owns no cars
• The world’s most popular media company creates no content
• The world’s largest retailer has no inventory
Airbnb
Uber
Facebook
Alibaba
4. How Can I Become a
Disruptor?
5 steps to mastering personal transformation
5. You’ll never discover your BIG IDEA sitting at your desk
Disruption comes from exploring outside your comfort zone
6. The majority of people & companies
are not willing to risk what they have
built for something better.
7. According to an Oxford study
entitled “The Future of Employment,”
47% of all jobs in the US economy
today will be subject to automation
or computerization.
73 million jobs lost
Business as usual is dead
8. In 5 years, a majority of Fortune
500 company revenues will
result from products and services
that don’t exist today.
There are only 57 original Fortune 500 companies
that have been on the list every year since 1955
9. Who’s Next?
Could it be your Industry?
Your Company?
Your Job?
You?
Are you prepared to Disrupt You?
19. Disruption = Opportunity
• 2.4 billion Internet users; 50x more than in 2000
• Online connections are 180x faster at 10.5 Mbps
• 185 million US smartphone users
• Being socially connected makes businesses go faster
• The cost to launch a startup is 95% lower than a decade ago
• $25-30 billion to be invested in some 200 venture funds
20. Disruption = Opportunity
Whereas the market caps of
Cisco, Amazon and Microsoft at
IPO were $200 million, $400
million and $800 million
respectively, the market caps of
LinkedIn, Twitter and Facebook
were $4.3 billion, $18 billion
and $104 billion.