Tom Peters refers to the current era as "a disruptive age" defined by "the war on terror". He speaks about this in the introduction to his book "RE-IMAGINE" [good book - check it out].
The innovator within an organisation is often the outsider - the "freak". Again Peters refers to this aspect of organisational culture in "RE-IMAGINE". It occurs to me that in an ironic kind of way one can draw an analogy between Peter's 'weirdo' and the famous quote from Mao who at one point, famously noted that "the guerrilla must move amongst the people as a fish swims in the sea," entering into conventional warfare only after a long struggle to whittle down the enemy.
Like Mao's guerrilla, the innovator often must move within an organisation doing in Peter's words, "weird stuff". Long live disruption ;)
More on this soon...
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