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0511 | Larry Downes: Full Transcript

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Talk about some of the ideas that kind of led you both to wanting to write this book, and then we’ll get into what this term big bang disruption means. It’s not generally a technology problem; it’s a leadership problem. The most recent being Big Bang Disruption: Strategy in the Age of Devastating Innovation. LARRY: Sure.

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