🔒 Alec Hogg: Covid cloud’s silver lining
‘By providing time for reflection previously impossible to find, Covid-19 has had a silver lining after all’, says Alec Hogg.
‘By providing time for reflection previously impossible to find, Covid-19 has had a silver lining after all’, says Alec Hogg.
The world lost one of its greatest minds Thursday when 67 year old Harvard professor Clayton Christensen passed away from cancer.
When the father of disruption theory Clayton Christensen penned his masterful The Innovator’s Dilemma in 1997, he explained rather specifically how the process worked.
The father of disruption theory, Clayton Christensen, explained that those who successfully challenge the status quo start quietly, almost by stealth.
More interesting than the details of the transaction announced on Nasdaq is the confirmation it provides for those building global businesses from the low-cost SA base.
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.
RW Johnson has helped frame an economic debate whose result can have only one conclusion – moving South Africa away from a depressing trajectory.
The pair discuss innovation in all its applications, the importance of life-long education and public misunderstanding, or misuse of Disruption.
Some days deliver more than others. Alec Hogg yesterday was one. Punctuated by two heroes, Clayton Christensen, and Simon Marais.
Chairman of Allan Gray SA, Simon Marais, was diagnosed with esophageal cancer last year, just after turning 50. It was a battle he fought bravely, but lost.