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Nurture misfits – lesson of ultimate disruptor, Alan Turing
Diverse views and open minds have always served mankind best. These are the cornerstones of disruptive thinking. So nurture the oddballs, the misfits, the difficult people you work with. These pirates change the world for the better.
By Alec Hogg
My study of disruption started five years ago when Harvard Professor Clayton Christensen surged from 28th to top of the biennial "Thinkers 50" list that ranks the world's best business brains.
The 2011 award formalised Christensen's ascension, and reflected the way his theory of "disruption" was becoming one of the business world's most overused words, used by many a be-suited blowhard to elevate a fringe idea. True disruptors do not live comfortable existences within corporate cocoons. Their path is often punctuated by pain and sacrifice.
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