Disruptive Leadership: Apple's Revolution of Care and Nine Keys to Organizational Excellence and Global...

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Rich Kao

Disruptive Leadership

Apple's Revolution of Care and Nine Keys to Organizational Excellence and Global Impact

Rich Kao

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Productivity Press
09 September 2025

Business strategy; Management: leadership & motivation; Production & quality control management; Engineering: general; Other manufacturing technologies

Companies worldwide are striving to transform their industries through innovative products and services. Becoming a disruptive organization, however, is easier said than done. Even more difficult is being a company that continually disrupts. Is it possible to discern a code for how companies can achieve this? In this highly readable and engaging book, a disruptive leadership framework is proposed in which caring deeply is placed at the center of the model. Apple is used as the leading example. By turning care into a focal point, a triphasic model is proposed that moves from the personal sphere (individual), to the corporate arena (organizational), and then to the global stage (impact). Nine key factors are identified along this path for how companies can achieve organizational excellence.

This second edition updates all the facts, data, and history around Apple since the first edition and calls out how its revolution of care continues to not only validate its success but astound with its seemingly unfettered upside. Its ability to disrupt seems to have no limits, thus challenging business leaders, present and future, to incorporate the DNA of care as they build and scale businesses. In addition to the previously profiled companies such as Nike, IKEA, 3M, and Starbucks, new case studies including Uniqlo, Alibaba, On Running, 7-Eleven, and Costco are presented to supplement Apple’s story.

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A new organizational model is given for interpreting Apple's success. Nine principles of organizational excellence are discerned from this new model. Promotes caring deeply as a focal point for approaching disruptive leadership. New corporate profiles include Uniqlo, Alibaba, On Running, 7-Eleven, and Costco. Application questions and assignments are included for each chapter, making it an ideal training tool for leadership development and personal application.

By: Rich Kao
Imprint: Productivity Press
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Edition: 2nd edition
Dimensions: Height: 229mm, Width: 152mm,
Weight: 410g
ISBN: 9781032755182
ISBN 10: 1032755180
Pages: 206
Publication Date: 09 September 2025
Audience: Professional and scholarly , Undergraduate
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Forthcoming

Chapter 1: Disruption Takes Leadership Chapter 2: Caring Deeply: The Plumb Line Excellence Chapter 3: Clarity: Caring Deeply Has a Goal Chapter 4: Credibility: Why Should Others Follow Me in Caring? Chapter 5: Core Team: Finding Those Who Care Deeply with Me Chapter 6: Culture: If You Don’t Care, You Don’t Belong Chapter 7: Creativity: Caring Leads to Crazy, Delightful Solutions Chapter 8: Commitment: Caring Executes and Overcomes All Obstacles Chapter 9: Congruency: Staying Fiercely True to the Call of Caring Chapter 10: Continuity: Finding the Next Carer-in-Chief Chapter 11: Canvas: Putting Caring Deeply to Work

Rich Kao is a veteran leader of 30 years and lover of dynamic start-ups. He has held research and teaching positions at Kallestad Labs (Hoffman-La Roche), 3M, EQUIP, and is currently a Managing Director with Measurement Technology Laboratories in Minneapolis, MN, a high-tech company specializing in air quality monitoring. He is the Founding Pastor of Five Stones Church in Vancouver, BC, a member of the Cabinet of Canadians, and is currently serving the Trudeau Administration on issues of religious freedom and human rights. He has started several humanitarian organizations using aid and leadership platforms to serve the underprivileged in Asia. He is also the CEO of a new green company, Hive. City, which is a design studio specializing in converting paperboard into consumer and business products. He has his B.A. in Biology from Carleton College; his M.S. in Immunology from the University of Minnesota, and his doctorate in leadership (D.SL) from Regent University.