Disrupt Disruption: How to Decode the Future, Disrupt Your Industry, and Transform Your Business

by Pascal Finette

Popular stories about disruption, retold countless times, fail to identify the true underlying forces leading to the demise of former market leaders. When we get the stories wrong, we risk learning the wrong lessons from recent history. We miss critical opportunities to enable real transformation and unlock sustainable relevance for our organizations. In his book Disrupt Disruption , author Pascal Finette calls bullsh️it on the popular narrative and offers a holistic view of the dynamics of disruption. Drawing on hundreds of exclusive interviews with successful innovators and leaders of incumbent organizations that have weathered paradigm shifts in their industries, Finette provides a perspective-shifting, practical framework to support a new understanding of disruption. Disrupt Disruption arms you with battle-tested principles to redefine organizational strategy and personal leadership and seize your preferred future.

Genres: Business

212 pages, Paperback

Published January 26, 2023

Reviews

[Angel Grimalt · Rating 4 out of 5]

Read into the mindset of top transformation leaders

Pianette goes straight to the point in his book, offering insights from transformative leaders and presenting a clear roadmap for organizations to navigate the future through foresight, disruptive innovation, and transformation. While it's targeted for corporate leaders, I believe founders too can draw lessons. I'd call out that its approach to upskilling, which is presented as Key #5 for transformation, seems rather traditional. It leans towards curated content-based learning and assessments, rather than the more future skills-centric project-based personalized learning with mentorship and pertinent feedback. For those interested in the latter approach, I'd recommend “Lifelong Kindergarten” by Mitchel Resnick (2018) from MIT Media Lab.

[Tiffany · Rating 5 out of 5]

Concise and actionable, "Disrupt Disruption" is a field manual for the business leader to understand not how to evade disruption, but to inhabit it and to transform it into fuel for success. The author, who has decades of experience in the tech industry, has turned to his international network to source insights into the practices and culture that empower at least three important parts of managing disruption: figuring out what's likely coming, positioning your organization to thrive, and transforming your own leadership with insight and resilience. Definitely recommend this book.

[Jonathan Godwin · Rating 3 out of 5]

I'm a big fan of Pascal Finette after seeing him speak a couple of times at events I attended. I was not as big a fan of this book, however. I found it a little difficult to get through on occasion, but I know that while some of the writing was so deep and detailed that it made my head hurt, this guy is a genius at what he does and will make initiate great change in this world. I can't wait to see him speak live again!

[Chris Persson · Rating 4 out of 5]

Probably good for those working in large orgs. Less relevant for entrepreneurship.

[Mariel Jiménez · Rating 4 out of 5]

Powerful insights and inspiration to disrupt, innovate, and built what really matters.