What Does It Take To Outlast The Disruptors?

Compaq. EF Hutton and Paine Webber. Eastern Air Lines and Pan American World Airways. F. W. Woolworth Company. Blockbuster. Sears. Barnes & Noble.

What do these organizations have in common? They were victims (or almost victims) of disruptors in their field.

Surviving disruptors was the theme this morning of my keynote address,The Changing Market Landscape For Behavioral Health Services: Strategies To Compete With The New Disruptors, at the MHCA Annual Fall Conference here in Austin, Texas.

So, in the health and human service field, who are the disruptors that are causing so much angst in the board rooms and . . .