Disruption in Your LIfe

Disrupt has the following definition from The Free Dictionary:

1. To throw into confusion or disorder: Protesters disrupted the candidate's speech.

2. To interrupt or impede the progress, movement, or procedure of: Our efforts in the garden were disrupted by an early frost.

3. To break or burst; rupture.

 

Disruption occurs in all areas of ones life, not just in markets and technology.  For example, marriage is surly a disruption in your lifestyle.  Children not only disrupt, but they are a disruption in your lifestyle as well.  Changing jobs can be very disruptive, sometimes resulting in a complete change in you career.  

 

Are they good, or bad?  Maybe both at the same time?  Whatever they are to you, they can be the catalyst to make changes that are both sustainable and better for you.

 

Disruption in technology can destroy markets and create new ones almost overnight. Disruptive technology is a term coined by Harvard Business School professor Clayton M. Christensen to describe a new technology that unexpectedly displaces an established technology.  

 

My interest is in why and how do these occur.  What have been the disruptions in your life?  What disruptive innovations have you experienced.   Let me know how you handled these.