Disruption is accelerating. Will you be a disruptor or be disrupted?

Disruption is accelerating. Will you be a disruptor or be disrupted?

I’m reading a great book right now, it’s called Machine, Platform, Crowd: Harnessing Our Digital Future, by Andrew McAfee and Erik Brynjolfsson. It offers an interesting perspective on how we should look at the future of business from a digital perspective.

This is how the authors describe the book: 

“We live in strange times. A machine plays the strategy game Go better than any human; upstarts like Apple and Google destroy industry stalwarts such as Nokia; ideas from the crowd are repeatedly more innovative than corporate research labs. We must rethink the integration of minds and machines, of products and platforms, and of the core and the crowd. In all three cases, the balance now favors the second element of the pair, with massive implications for how we run our companies and live our lives.”

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