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disruptive innovations

Current leadership models are inadequate for

disruptive innovations

Dr. Scott McLeoddangerouslyirrelevant.org

(a 2008 K12 Online presentation)

What is adisruptive innovation?

Disruptive innovationschange the game.

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Effective leadership fordisruptive innovations

1. Good organizations with good people will disappear if they don’t understand the ‘natural laws’ of disruptive innovation.

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2. It’s very difficult for existing successful organizations to become dominant players in the new market.

3. It’s much easier to create a new organization - or buy one - than it is to turn an existing organization around.

4. It’s difficult to analyze the unknowable.

5. First-mover advantage is important when it comes to disruptive innovations.

Implications forschool leaders

1. K-12 education is facing a disruptive innovation. It’s personalized learning.

2. The existing educational model is not a given.

3. All of this is going to sneak up on most school organizations.

Cycles 1-20 Cycles 21-25

We’re in here somewhere!

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We’re moving this direction!

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4. To survive, school organizations must structure themselves to comply with the ‘natural laws’ of disruptive innovations.

Don’t wait until it is ‘good enough’

Don’t wait until it is ‘good enough’

Start with underserved student groups

Don’t wait until it is ‘good enough’

Start with underserved student groups

Use different metrics of success

Don’t wait until it is ‘good enough’

Start with underserved student groups

Use different metrics of success

Compete directly with the existing organization

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(Isn’t it time we started preparing students for it?)

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Current leadership models are inadequate for

disruptive innovations

Dr. Scott McLeoddangerouslyirrelevant.org

k12onlineconference.org

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