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🗓️ 29 September 2025
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My guest today is Scott Anthony. Scott is a clinical professor at the Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth, where his research and teaching focuses on the adaptive challenges of disruptive change. He previously spent more than 20 years at Innosight, a growth strategy consultancy founded by Harvard Business School professor Clayton Christensen.
The topic is his book Epic Disruptions: 11 Innovations That Shaped Our Modern World.
In this episode of Trend Following Radio we discuss:
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| 0:00.0 | My guest today is Scott Anthony. He's a professor at Dartmouth at the Tuck School of Business. |
| 0:06.4 | Today, the topic, epic disruptions, 11 innovations that shaped our modern world. |
| 0:14.1 | Scott is an acolyte of the professor Clayton Christensen behind innovators dilemma. |
| 0:19.9 | And we go into all kinds of disruptions and banter, |
| 0:24.4 | and I enjoyed this conversation a lot. And guess what? I hope you enjoy it too. Without any |
| 0:30.2 | further delay from me, let's jump right into my conversation with Scott Anthony. |
| 0:34.2 | Thank you. with Scott Anthony. |
| 0:54.2 | Before we get into some of the great examples that you have in your work about disruption. |
| 1:02.2 | You got me thinking in advance of this conversation about maybe ones that aren't in your book. |
| 1:05.4 | Even for me, I felt some of these are even possibly controversial. |
| 1:08.0 | And it maybe even gets us into a discussion of disruption. |
| 1:11.2 | But I got to say for me, there was two, and they were very social. |
| 1:18.2 | They're very men and women that really jumped out at me in terms of disruption. And one was probably a 60s or 70s innovation, which would have been birth control. And number two, kind of the follow-on |
| 1:23.8 | host the dot-com era would be dating apps and social media. I was thinking of those two, |
| 1:30.3 | because all the ones you have obviously changed the world. But I was thinking those are right |
| 1:34.3 | there in that headspace, a touch more controversial perhaps, but right there in the headspace |
| 1:38.8 | of disrupting. And to add one more caveat here, which your subtitle, you're saying shaped. |
| 1:45.9 | But shape, there's not all good and not all bad here, right? |
| 1:49.0 | You picked up on that. |
| 1:50.1 | It's interesting. |
| 1:50.7 | This is something that I probably won't say on camera when we're recording. |
| 1:54.7 | Oh, we're already recording so I can get in trouble if I say this hot mic moment. |
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