2nd Edition

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

By Rich Kao Copyright 2026
224 Pages 13 B/W Illustrations
by Productivity Press

224 Pages 13 B/W Illustrations
by Productivity Press

224 Pages 13 B/W Illustrations
by Productivity Press

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... Read more

Introduction

About the Author

 

Chapter 1: Disruption Takes Leadership

SECTION I Eruption: Individual Arena

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?

SECTION II Construction: Organizational Arena

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

SECTION III Disruption: Global Arena

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

SECTION IV Activation

Chapter 11: Canvas: Putting Caring Deeply to Work

 

References

Biography

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.