Scott D. Anthony

And that's happened in a pretty short period of time.

Well, do you want the answer that I'm supposed to give or you want the truth?

I'll give you the truth.

The truth is it actually was not my idea.

So I had a very different book that I proposed to my publisher, Harvard Business Review Press.

I teach a class at Tuck called Leading Disruptive Change.

Teaching is a second career for me.

I was a consultant for about 20 years before that.

So I started teaching three years ago.

I designed this class.

The class was going well.

I said, I want to write a book about the ideas in this class.

And the publisher said, it sounds great.

We're really interested in it, but we have a different idea for you.

They had just named Disruptive Innovation one of four ideas that had shaped the modern business world, along with shareholder value maximization, emotional intelligence, scientific management.

And they said, you're so intertwined with the idea.

What about writing a history book about disruption?

And at first, I was like, that's not the book I want to write.

I had another idea in mind.

And then it just sat in my head.