761: Notice Disruption and Innovate Through It, with Steve Blank

Leaders may see the future coming, but we aren't always incentivized to act on it. In this episode, what we can learn from the common patterns of disruption, so we don't miss what's next. This is Coaching for Leaders, episode 761. Produced by Innovate Learning, Maximizing Human Potential. Greetings to you from Orange County, California.

This is Coaching for Leaders, and I'm your host, Dave Stehoviak. Leaders aren't born, they're made. And this weekly show helps you discover leadership wisdom through insightful conversations. There's a famous line in Ernest Hemingway's book, The Sun Also Rises, that asks, How did you go bankrupt? And the answer, two ways.

Gradually, Then suddenly, so often when disruption is happening around us, there's signs that it's happening, but we don't notice it until it's already changed substantially. Today a conversation on how we can lead better through times of disruption, and I can't think of anyone better to have that conversation with than Steve Blank. I'm glad to welcome Steve back to the show today. He's an adjunct professor at Stanford and co-founder of the Gordian Knott Center for National Security Innovation.

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