When the fiscal crisis hit states full force in 2009, 41 states were forced to make disruptive midyear budget cuts, according to a survey by the National Governors Association and the National Association of State Budget Officers.
At Wimbledon this year, the police escorted Dokic off the grounds after he had made disruptive comments while holding the St. George's flag of England and after he smashed a journalist's telephone.
Under these circumstances the organization is unable to make disruptive changes preemptively, before events impose themselves upon it.
Nonetheless, it was interesting to see that many of the tech industry's top names — former Twitter CEO Dick Costolo, and VCs Marc Andreessen and Keith Rabois — came out to dismiss the details as merely part of what makes disruptive companies disruptive.
So it really is difficult for large organizations or government to make disruptive change.
The Internet, smart phones, apps, social media and other new technologies have made disruptive and revolutionary changes in virtually every sector of our society and can do the same to disrupt and revolutionize the way our campaigns are financed.
In his radio address, Mr. Jeffords said, he would like to make the point that "the administration, with its tremendous desire to cut taxes, is making a disruptive economic situation, which is very dangerous".
It was also too busy worrying about not upsetting the apple cart of its current customers to start making the disruptive changes needed to win future ones, she says.
Distributed clean energy is making a disruptive leap, decentralizing power literally and figuratively.
If anyone were to make a disruptive scene, Marina's muscle moves in.
