{"id":3171,"date":"2015-10-06T12:47:04","date_gmt":"2015-10-06T17:47:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bizwomenrock.com\/?p=3171"},"modified":"2015-10-06T12:49:31","modified_gmt":"2015-10-06T17:49:31","slug":"four-tips-for-ambitious-and-disruptive-women","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/bizwomenrock.com\/beta\/four-tips-for-ambitious-and-disruptive-women\/","title":{"rendered":"Four tips for ambitious and disruptive women"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>Stay positive, keep focused and collaborate.<\/h2>\n<p>Disruption: do women do it differently? We assembled a panel at a gathering of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.managementtoday.co.uk\/go\/35under35\/\">MT&#8217;s 35 Women Under 35 network<\/a> last night to address that very question. The lineup included Cilla Snowball, boss of leading ad agency AMV BBDO and Smruti Sriram the CEO of fabric bag manufacturer <a href=\"http:\/\/www.supreme-creations.co.uk\/\">Supreme Creations<\/a>. They were joined by John Vincent, who co-founded the healthy fast food chain Leon, and Isla Kennedy, a digital consultant at Accenture, which sponsored the event. Over the course of the lively debate, our panel came up with a few handy pieces of insight for women looking to disrupt the world of business.<\/p>\n<h3>1. YOU DON&#8217;T HAVE TO BE AN &#8216;ENTREPRENEUR&#8217; TO BE AN INNOVATOR<\/h3>\n<p>The data shows that men are more likely to start their own business, says Cilla Snowball, but you don&#8217;t have to be an entrepreneur like Martha Lane Fox or Anita Roddick to be a disruptive woman. &#8216;For me, innovation is a very quiet innovation by stealth,&#8217; she says. &#8216;It&#8217;s not necessarily an inventor, but it&#8217;s someone who is making huge strides in an organisaion as the company grows.&#8217;<\/p>\n<h4><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/offlinehbpl.hbpl.co.uk\/news\/OTM\/richedit\/35u35-cilla.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"441\" height=\"294\" \/><\/h4>\n<h4>Cilla Snowball is the group chairman and group CEO of AMV BBDO<\/h4>\n<p>Business leaders like EasyJet&#8217;s Caroline McCall and Camelot&#8217;s Dianne Thompson have shown you can make a big difference to a company that already exists, she said. &#8216;[Dianne Thompson] didn&#8217;t invent the national lottery, but she invented an innovative way to make it grow and become a world class lottery.&#8217;<\/p>\n<h2><a href=\"http:\/\/www.managementtoday.co.uk\/news\/1365610\/four-tips-ambitious-disruptive-women\/\">To read this full article, CLICK HERE!<\/a><\/h2>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Stay positive, keep focused and collaborate. 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