by Jackie Acho | Nov 10, 2014 | Creative disruption, Empathy, Parenting, Silicon Valley, Social media, Uncategorized, Women in Leadership
Facebook and Apple recently announced plans to pay for their female employees to freeze their eggs for non-medical reasons. It sounds so friendly to women, doesn’t it? – a triumph of technology over biology, relieving us from the pressure of child bearing...
by Jackie Acho | Jun 28, 2014 | Creative disruption, Disrupters, Entrepreneurship, Innovation with a conscience, Innovation with a soul, Intrapreneurship, Uncategorized
What is “innovation with soul” vs simply a disruption of the status quo? Do you know it when you see it? Does our society inspire, support, and exalt it as we should? Consider: The new MIT Technology Review: “Hacking the Soul.” In it,...
by Jackie Acho | May 8, 2014 | CEO, Changemaker, Creative disruption, Mergers and Acquisitions
Sharon Sobol Jordan is the CEO of the Centers for Families and Children , as well as a dear friend and client. She writes about institutionalizing innovation and positive disruption on her blog, Innovation Inside. This collaborative post is being simultaneously...
by Jackie Acho | Dec 11, 2013 | Art, Changemaker, Creative disruption, Disrupters, Intrapreneurship
dis·rupt transitive verb \dis-ˈrəpt\ 1. To throw into confusion or disorder: Entrepreneurs make money, sometimes lots of it, as quickly as possible. Sometimes even for others. Intrapreneurs (entrepreneurs inside large organizations) make change, sometimes also money,...