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Disruptive Heroes
Disruptive because they are proving conventional wisdom wrong.
Heroes because they are changing the rules of the game, for the better.
Great because they helped to change us all for the better.
Disruptive Heroes are everywhere.
We are connecting the dots between what they have done and what we all
could be, and should be/could be doing. Some are well known, some are not.
All have lessons-learned to share.
Additions: Revisit often. We’re posting new heroes continually.
Viewing Note: Audio/video: Via Skype… Hey, it is what it is.
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SUNNY BATES, Disruptive Hero World-Changing Connector For 30 years, Sunny has used her knowledge and intuition to create inspired marriages between ideas and capital, between creativity and sponsorship, between genius and its audience. She is a pioneer of the invisible network and its protocols, understanding that the connector is the new agent of innovation and business success. For more… |
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MAT FOGARTY, Disruptive Hero CEO, Crowdcast: Plans Based on Social Knowledge Mat is the Founder and CEO of Crowdcast. Prior to founding Crowdcast, he was the Director of Corporate Financial Planning at Electronic Arts where he pioneered the use of prediction markets. Previously, Mat held leadership roles in FP&A at Unilever. For more… |
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MEGAN MURRAY, Disruptive Hero Collaboration Strategist, Moxie Software Megan Murray is a pioneer ing Enterprise 2.0 practitioner. She is Director of Collaboration Strategy at Moxie Software, after more than a decade with Booz Allen Hamilton where she focused on emerging tech nolo gies, collaborative strategies and Enterprise 2.0. For more… |
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ANDREW McAFEE, Disruptive Hero Enterprise 2.0 Researcher, MIT Sloan School Andrew McAfee studies the ways that information technology (IT) affects businesses and business as a whole. His research investigates how IT changes the way companies perform, organize themselves, and compete. At a higher level, his work also investigates how computerization affects competition itself — the struggle among rivals for dominance and survival within an industry. For more… |
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BERT SANDIE, Disruptive Hero Director, Technical Excellence, Electronic Arts Bert Sandie is a key contributor to Electronic Art’s (EA) dynamic culture. His technical knowledge and leadership background in the high-tech industry has helped him drive sharing, social connections, collaboration, and innovation at EA. For more… |
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GENTRY UNDERWOOD, Disruptive Hero Cofounder & CEO, Orchestra, Inc. Wired like a designer, combined with deep training in ethnography and psychology, Gentry Underwood brings unique sensibilities to all his ventures. Unlike many dot-com-ers, he thoroughly enjoys the people-part of change that social software can create. He’s currently focused on a startup, after leaving IDEO as their Head of Knowledge Sharing. For more… |
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HENRIK WERDELIN, Disruptive Hero Partner, Prehype Henrik is a partner at Prehype, a product innovation studio that incubates new digital companies on behalf of the world’s finest corporations and VCs. Before that, he was the Founding Chief Creative Officer for Joost. Here he shares his insights from developing and launching disruptive technologies. For more… |
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BOB HINTY, Disruptive Hero Hentz Manufacturing, Owner Bob defines world-class manufacturing. He rebuilt his businesses, workforce and operations after losing his biggest client who took much of their sewing and fabrication overseas to China. He’s located in America’s heartland in Fort Wayne, Indiana. Here he shares what it takes for manufacturing to survive and thrive in the United States. For more… |
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JOHN GERACI, Disruptive Hero Founder, DIYcity and Co-founder Outside.in John’s goal is to take the best of web technologies and apply them to how we live in the physical spaces of today’s urban environments. Consider that in 2008, for the first time in history, more than half the world’s population lived in cities, and by 2030 that number will swell to almost five billion, John’s insights need to be considered all over the globe. For more… |
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TARYN MILLER-STEVENS, Disruptive Hero Chief Big Idea Builder and Curator at MBM Taryn is one of the creative forces behind MBM, a classic retreat for big dreamers and doers. She epitomizes what happens when 20-somethings leverage the power of communities (online as well as face-to-face) to get things done. For more… |