11 February 2025, 16:48

By Professor Matt Qvortrup

There is something to be said for gradual reform and piecemeal change. I just can’t remember what it is.

Nor can Donald Trump. This is a positive. For, sometimes it is necessary to shake things up to get them moving.

By saying ‘You’re fired’ to many old and fruitless policies, the former Apprentice star is been a force for good – even if some of his policies were half-baked or even barmy.

From the proposal to turn Gaza into the Riviera of the eastern Mediterranean to the proposed tariffs on several countries, the 47th President of the United States may not have won himself many admirers - but he has kick-started debates we all have to confront.

Donald Trump is the Disrupter-in-Chief. And, disruption is a force for good. It rejuvenates. It shakes people out of their comfort zones.

As anyone who has paid scant attention to the discussion in management circles, disruption has been a buzz-word in Business Schools in the past decade. The entrepreneur Donald Trump, MBA, is merely articulating the common........

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