The Innovator's DNA book includes skills you can make use of being a disruptive innovator as an individual creator, as well as a business leader.
One of the skills: "Associating refers to your ability to make connections across seemingly unrelated questions, problems, fields of study, or ideas. Associational thinkers draw on knowledge acquired through questioning, observing, experimenting and networking to link together unexpected combinations of problems, ideas and observations to produce new business ideas."