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Disrupting Yourself May Be The Key To Personal Growth & Success By TL Williams “Thinkers50 Management Thinker of 2015, Whitney Johnson wants you to consider this simple, yet powerful, idea: disruptive companies and ideas upend markets by doing something truly different—they see a need, an empty space waiting to be filled, and they dare to create something for which a market may not yet exist.” Amazon, 2016. Will you be the one to fill the need? Whitney Johnson’s book, Disrupt Yourself will put you to the challenge. TL Williams is Editor-in-Chief of YOU CAN Magazine and Founder of I AM Success LLC. Motivational Media Publications. www. iamsuccess.info W e have all seen examples of companies and concepts replaced by a newer and more convenient business model. This is called disruptive innovation. A company that is unable to keep up with new and evolving social and economic trends will quickly fall behind and eventually be overthrown by a company well versed in such trends. Relate disruptive innovation to your life. View yourself as a a company looking to stay in the game. Continue to find ways to learn and grow.