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Organizational disruption is a critical yet often overlooked aspect of leadership that can dramatically enhance innovation and growth when applied strategically. Too many companies keep the same people in the same seats for too long, creating stagnation that hurts creativity, motivation, and ultimately, market performance.• Johnson & Johnson's military-style three-year rotation model promotes innovation and fresh thinking• Whitney Johnson's book "Disrupt Yourself" details the S-curve of innovation and why personal disruption is essential• Strategic disruption increases motivation, innovative thinking, and helps break through status quo mentality• Organizations with the same leadership for extended periods often see flattened growth curves• Top executives regularly make strategic changes to their leadership teams to maintain momentum• Not all organizations need disruption—some currently need stability first• Thoughtful, strategic implementation works better than chaotic reorganizationShare this episode with a colleague, your team or a friend. Tap on the share button and text the link.--Get weekly leadership tips delivered to your email inbox:Subscribe to our leadership email newsletterhttps://www.leadin30.com/newsletterConnect with me on LinkedIn or to send me a DM:https://www.linkedin.com/in/russleads/Tap here to check out my first book, Decide to Lead, on Amazon. Thank you so much to the thousands of you who have already purchased it for yourself or your company! --About the podcast:The Lead In 30 Podcast with Russ Hill is for leaders of teams who want to grow and accelerate their results. In each episode, Russ Hill shares what he's learned consulting executives. Subscribe to get two new episodes every week. To connect with Russ message him on LinkedIn!

I'm so excited to share this special short episode recap with a powerful message. I'm publishing this curation to help you make the most of your time. The episode features segments from the episode 095 featuring and interview with Whitney Johnson on her second appearance on the show! https://richie.libsyn.com/whitney-johnson-smart-growth-book-exclusive-insights ====== On this day Whitney Johnson informs Richie before the podcast begins that Bob Proctor passed. Whitney speaks to his memory, impact and experiences with him. Richie and Whitney also speak to the memory of Clayton Christensen and lessons Clayton shared with Whitney in their work together around disruptive innovation. Whitney discusses her new book Smart Growth and how the S Curve model helps individuals and organizations create positive transformations. In Smart Growth and on this podcast, "Whitney Johnson dives more deeply than ever into the S curve of growth and learning...The growth and learning journey comes in three phases: the Launch Point, the Sweet Spot, and the High End." This is a unique and special episode. Whitney Johnson is the CEO of Disruption Advisors, a tech-enabled talent development company, and an expert on smart growth leadership: growing your people to grow your company. Thinkers50 ranked her among the top ten management thinkers in the world in 2021, and in 2020 she was a Top Voice on LinkedIn, where she has 1.8 million followers. Johnson is an award-winning author, world-class keynote speaker, frequent lecturer for Harvard Business Publishing's Corporate Learning division, and an award-winning executive coach and adviser to CEOs. She is the author of several bestselling books, including Disrupt Yourself and Build an A-Team, and hosts the weekly Disrupt Yourself podcast. Go to https://whitneyjohnson.com/ to learn more. To create your own "on-mission" experience in life, leadership, coaching, entrepreneurship and small business, go to: www.richienorton.com/76daychallenge Want to continue the conversation? Join us! RICHIE NORTON SHOW COMMUNITY: https://www.facebook.com/groups/richiepodcast RICHIE NORTON SHOW NOTES AND RESOURCES: http://www.richienorton.com/ RICHIE NORTON SOCIAL: INSTAGRAM: https://www.instagram.com/richie_norton LINKEDIN: http://www.linkedin.com/in/richardnorton FB: https://www.facebook.com/richienorton TWITTER: http://www.twitter.com/richienorton

In this episode, Dr. Ginny, inspired by a recent conversation with a community member from the financial services sector, delves into the concept of disrupting yourself.  Dr. Ginny reflects on a powerful conversation she held this week with a senior leader in financial services who inspired the theme of our latest episode: What does it look like to ‘Disrupt Yourself' in the world? During her career journey, Dr. Ginny experienced firsthand how stepping beyond my immediate role and seeking new perspectives shaped her personal and professional growth.  From learning the ins and outs of asset management from her role within technology to immersing herself in learning opportunities and industry events while working full-time, these disruptions empowered her to add value in ways she never imagined. Here's a sneak peek at what you'll discover in this episode: 

I'm so excited to share this special 20 min episode stack as a highlight with a powerful message. I'm publishing this curation to help you make the most of your time. The episode features segments from the episode 033, 034, & 035 featuring Whitney Johnson and the following Aftercast & Solocast. https://richie.libsyn.com/whitney-johnson-tools-to-thrive-during-disruption ====== To fear or create. Richie Norton interviews world-renowned expert Whitney Johnson about tools to thrive during disruption. Whitney recently, writes, "But as novel as the novel coronavirus is, there is nothing new about trouble and challenge. I think when we succumb to fear and the paralysis or overreaction that it can stimulate, we are more likely to abandon the ship than to have it simply sink on its own." Whitney Johnson explains, "Resources are meant to be used. Let's keep the resources circulating and at work. Let's keep living. Invest in the future. It will affect everything we do and are. And our children. Our children's children. There will be opportunities for new growth; if we look for those and embrace the constraints (can't travel, must telecommute, lost half the budget, have to start again in a new place or start a new business, etc.) we will emerge from this perhaps historic moment better prepared for the challenges of the future. Which will come. Innovation is the happy fruit of the resourcefulness demanded by hard times."   Whitney Johnson is the CEO of WLJ Advisors and one of the 50 leading business thinkers in the world as named by Thinkers50. She is an expert on helping high-growth organizations develop high-growth individuals. Whitney is an award-winning author, world-class keynote speaker, frequent lecturer for Harvard Business School's Corporate Learning and an executive coach and advisor to CEOs. She is a popular contributor to the Harvard Business Review, has 1.7 million followers on LinkedIn, where she was selected as a Top Voice in 2018, and her course on Fundamentals of Entrepreneurship has been viewed more than 1 million times. In 2019, she was ranked #3 on the Global Gurus' Top 30 Organizational Culture Professionals. In 2017, she was selected from more than 16,000 candidates as a “Top 15 Coach” by Dr. Marshall Goldsmith. An innovation and disruption theorist, she is the author of the bestselling Build an “A” Team: Play To Their Strengths and Lead Them Up the Learning Curve, and the critically-acclaimed Disrupt Yourself: Putting the Power of Disruptive Innovation to Work.  In these books, she codifies her frameworks for developing high-growth individuals and organizations – the Personal Disruption and the S Curve of Learning frameworks. Whitney was the cofounder of the Disruptive Innovation Fund with Harvard Business School's Clayton Christensen, through which they invested in and led the $8 million seed round for South Korea's Coupang, currently valued at more than $9 billion. She was involved in fund formation, capital raising, and the development of the fund's strategy. As a former award-winning Wall Street stock analyst, Whitney understands momentum and growth. She was an Institutional Investor–ranked equity research analyst for eight consecutive years and was rated by StarMine as a superior stock picker. Whitney hosts the weekly Disrupt Yourself podcast, publishes a popular weekly newsletter, and she is married with two children. The interview takes place on March 16, 2020 just as the USA wakes up to the impacts and implications of COVID-19 and social distancing becomes the new normal. Gathering places like restaurants and event are closed down. The nation is being asked to not meet in groups larger than 10. Major cities worldwide are shutting doors, countries shutting borders and the future is unknown. COVID-19 carriers are rarely speaking up. The world fears contracting the Coronavirus and little is known about what to do if you do.   ADDITIONAL RESOURCES:   RICHIE NORTON SHOW COMMUNITY:https://www.facebook.com/groups/richiepodcast      RICHIE NORTON SHOW NOTES AND RESOURCES: http://www.richienorton.com/      RICHIE NORTON SOCIAL:      INSTAGRAM: https://www.instagram.com/richie_norton LINKEDIN: http://www.linkedin.com/in/richardnorton FB: https://www.facebook.com/richienorton TWITTER: http://www.twitter.com/richienorton

Innovation and disruption aren't just for organizations. According to Whitney Johnson, we can find new possibilities for personal and professional growth — by disrupting ourselves.As an executive coach, author, and podcaster, Johnson teaches people how to level up their lives and careers through the power of personal disruption. Her book, Disrupt Yourself: Putting the Power of Disruptive Innovation to Work, reveals how shaking things up enables us to break free of the constraints we might not even know we're imposing on ourselves. “Personal disruption [is] a process of deliberate self-innovation; a decision to step back from who you are to slingshot into who you can be,” she explains.In this Think Fast, Talk Smart episode with host Matt Abrahams, Johnson offers strategies for tailoring messages to different audiences, reveals the key ingredients for successful communication, and explains how disrupting yourself can open new doors and help you reach your full potential.Episode Reference Links:Whitney Johnson: Website Whitney's Books: Website Whitney's Podcast: Disrupt Yourself Podcast Lindsay McMahon's Podcast: All Ears English Podcast Clayton Christensen's Book: The Innovator's DilemmaEp.118 Maximizing You Personal Brand: Communicating Who You Are to Help Get What You Want YouTube / Website Ep.138 Speak Your Truth: Why Authenticity Leads to Better Communication YouTube / WebsiteConnect:Email Questions & Feedback >>> thinkfast@stanford.eduEpisode Transcripts >>> Think Fast Talk Smart WebsiteNewsletter Signup + English Language Learning >>> FasterSmarter.ioThink Fast Talk Smart >>> LinkedIn Page, Instagram, YouTubeMatt Abrahams >>> LinkedInStanford GSB >>> LinkedIn & TwitterChapters:(00:00:00) IntroductionHost Matt Abrahams introduces Whitney Johnson, keynote speaker and executive coach.(00:01:25) The Concept of DisruptionThe definition of disruption, and the benefits of personal disruption and self-innovation.(00:02:48) Identifying and Leveraging Distinctive StrengthsHow to identify distinctive strengths through observing frustrations, listening to compliments, and valuing inherent skills.(00:06:11) The S Curve of LearningThe S curve model, its stages, and how it relates to personal and organizational growth.(00:11:56) Tenacity and Tolerance in Personal DisruptionThe importance of tenacity, and the ability to tolerate ambiguity and failure during the disruptive process.(00:13:35) Encouraging Disruptive Ideas in OrganizationsStrategies for leaders to foster a culture that encourages disruptive ideas and constructive dialogue within teams.(00:17:00) The Final Three QuestionsWhitney shares how she tailors her communication for varying audiences, a communicator she admires, and her recipe for successful communication.(00:22:30) Conclusion See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

Whitney Johnson is the CEO and Co-Founder of Disruption Advisors, a world-class leadership development company that helps organizations operationalize a growth mindset in their leaders and teams. Under Johnson's leadership, Disruption Advisors has been an Inc. 5000 fastest-growing company, where they leverage Johnson's powerful S Curve model to give leaders and their people a shared language to create positive change across an organization. Thinkers50 named Johnson as one of the top 10 leading business thinkers in the world in 2021, a top 200 female founder by Inc. Magazine in 2023, and in 2020 she was a Top Voice on LinkedIn where she has 1.8 million followers. A co-founder of the Disruptive Innovation Fund with Harvard's Clayton Christensen, and an award-winning stock analyst on Wall Street, she now applies her understanding of momentum and growth in stocks to people. Whitney is a WSJ, USA Today, and Amazon bestselling author and host of the popular Disrupt Yourself podcast. Listen to the Business English Podcast to get tips on vocabulary, presentations, meetings in English, and more Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Forget the traditional career ladder and embrace the concept of disrupting yourself. In this episode, J.R. Lowry chats with Whitney Johnson, CEO of Disruption Advisors, about her book, Disrupt Yourself. Whitney, leveraging her experience from working at Wall Street to building a firm focused on human potential, unpacks the concept of self-disruption. They delve into the S-Curve, a tool to understand your growth journey and explore how to leverage your strengths to navigate career transitions. This episode is packed with insights for anyone looking to push boundaries and unlock their potential for personal and professional growth.Check out the full series of “Career Sessions, Career Lessons” podcasts here or visit pathwise.io/podcast/. A full written transcript of this episode is also available at https://pathwise.io/podcast/whitney-johnsonBecome a PathWise member today! Join at https://pathwise.io/join-now

Back in July, we tried something a little new for this show – episode 329 was all about hearing from the listeners of Disrupt Yourself. What was important to you while you were listening, what insights you wanted to bring back from older episodes and refresh. It was a lovely experiment, so today we're bringing you another roundtable. This time, we've got three coaches instead, all of whom are Smart Growth certified. We wanted to explore what that initial call to action was for all three of them, as well as what certification meant – practically – for their clients' success. Today we'll be joined by Sarah Glover, Jordan White and Rebecca Woodard, all independent coaches in the process of growing their practice.  

Whitney Johnson believed she could increase her earnings tenfold. So, she pursued business courses at night and eventually made an unusual transition from secretary to investment banker. This marked the first major disruption of her career path and set the stage for her future successes as an entrepreneur, author, and thought leader on disruption. In this episode, Whitney shares her journey of self-disruption through her major career leaps. She provides insights and strategies for professionals struggling to transition into new career phases. Whitney Johnson is a leading expert in business innovation and personal disruption. She is the bestselling author of Disrupt Yourself and is a sought-after speaker and advisor. In this episode, Ilana and Whitney will discuss: - Whitney's inspiring journey from secretary to investment banker - Her brave leap from business analyst to entrepreneur - The impact of personal disruption on career growth - Strategies for leaders to harness disruption for success - The role of mentorship and support in achieving growth - How to identify opportunities for self-disruption - Balancing personal life with professional ambitions - The importance of a safety net while purpose-searching - The ‘S-curve' framework for understanding professional growth - And other topics… Whitney Johnson is the founder of Disruption Advisors, a consultancy that specializes in organizational growth and innovation. Recognized by Thinkers50 as one of the top management thinkers, she is a leading expert in innovation and personal disruption. Whitney hosts the popular Disrupt Yourself podcast and is the author of the bestselling book by the same name. She has also written Build an A-Team, another bestseller. She frequently speaks at prestigious venues such as the United Nations and the US Air Force, empowering individuals and organizations to effectively navigate career growth and organizational change. Connect with Whitney: Whitney's Website: https://whitneyjohnson.com/  Whitney's LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/whitneyjohnson/  Resources Mentioned: Whitey's Books: Disrupt Yourself: Putting the Power of Disruptive Innovation to Work: https://www.amazon.com/Disrupt-Yourself-Putting-Disruptive-Innovation/dp/1629560529  Build an A Team: Play to Their Strengths and Lead Them Up the Learning Curve: https://www.amazon.com/Build-Team-Play-Strengths-Learning/dp/1633693643  Dare, Dream, Do: Remarkable Things Happen When You Dare to Dream: https://www.amazon.com/Dare-Dream-Do-Remarkable-Things/dp/1937134121  Smart Growth: How to Grow Your People to Grow Your Company: https://www.amazon.com/Smart-Growth-Grow-People-Company/dp/1647821150   

(0:00) Intro.(1:10) About the podcast sponsor: The American College of Governance Counsel.(1:58) Start of interview.(2:43) His role at EY and appointments at Harvard's Safra Center for Ethics (ELSCE), MIT and Boston University.(5:23) Defining AI. Reference to the 1956 Dartmouth AI conference.(8:29) GAI, AI market and valuations.(11:31) On AI Ethics for business and AI governance. Reference to Harvard's Danielle Allen.(15:10) On the concept of Multistakeholderism and AI Ethics. Hippocratic Oath for AI: "Do No Harm to the World."(19:10) Board Committee Structure for AI. "[Only] 67 of the  S&P500 companies have some sort of board technology committee." NACD report on board technology committees. "You may get a financial boost from doing that" "I think that'll be 50% greater a year from now."(22:39) On board oversight. A deep dive on evolution of Caremark duties.(31:09) On AI regulation. (34:41) Geopolitics between the U.S. and China on AI.(37:44) On OpenAI's board fiasco. Unusual structures such as OpenAI, Anthropic, Inflection AI and xAI.(44:02) Recommendations for directors using AI.(47:40) The intersection between Web3 and AI.(50:00) On his EY Podcast: Better Innovation.(51:15) Other thoughts for directors: university partnerships and risks of employee use of GAI.(54:22)  Books that have greatly influenced his life: Tennis related books.The Fish that Ate the Whale by Rich Cohen (2012)Disrupt Yourself by Whitney Johnson (2015) *(55:47) His mentors. At EY: Kate Barton (EY Global Co-Chair, Emeritus).(56:18) Quotes that he thinks of often or lives his life by: "Start where you are. Use what you have. Do what you can do." (Arthur Ashe) and "No matter how far you travel in the wrong direction, you can always turn around." (Winston Churchill).(56:53) An unusual habit or absurd thing that he loves.(58:04) The living person he most admires: Billy Jean King.Jeff Saviano is the EY Emerging Technology Strategy & Governance Leader.   You can follow Evan on social media at:Twitter: @evanepsteinLinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/epsteinevan/ Substack: https://evanepstein.substack.com/__You can join as a Patron of the Boardroom Governance Podcast at:Patreon: patreon.com/BoardroomGovernancePod__Music/Soundtrack (found via Free Music Archive): Seeing The Future by Dexter Britain is licensed under a Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 United States License

Whitney Johnson graduated college with a degree in Music, minoring in English. Of course, she needed a job, and became the secretary to a broker on Wall Street. After taking business courses at night and building confidence from a boss who believed in her, she moved into picking stocks. In 2005, she had an "aha!" moment leading her towards entrepreneurship, and starting a fund with Clayton Christensen, author of the Innovators Dilemma. She's the author of the many books, including Disrupt Yourself, which you can find a link in the show notes. Outside of these things, she is married, loves to play tennis, and enjoys a good Korean drama.Amy Humble grew up in a rural part of Colorado called Rifle. Her mother was a principal, her father was a psychologist, and she studied political science during undergrad, while working in the Senate. She explored how to develop young people, and has always been rooted in her desire to develop people. In the past, she worked with Jim Collins - the author of Good to Great, who baptized and indoctrinated her into leadership development. Outside of her professional life, she is married with a young family. She enjoys skiing, hiking, biking, and playing in the water.Amy was researching women who had become though leaders, and stumbled upon the work that Whitney was doing. They started out doing a small project together in 2015, and discovered that not only do they like working together, their strengths complimented each other - which led to the forming of a partnership.This is the creation story of Disruption Advisors.SponsorsPorkbun: Use the link codestory.co/porkbun and get a .dev, .app, or .foo domain name for only $5!CacheFlyClearQueryKiteworksLinkshttps://thedisruptionadvisors.comhttps://www.linkedin.com/in/amy-humble-6570a311/https://www.linkedin.com/in/whitneyjohnson/https://www.amazon.com/Disrupt-Yourself-New-Introduction-Relentless/dp/1633698785/ref=asc_df_1633698785/Support this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/code-story/donationsAdvertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

Whitney Johnson is an innovative thinker on individual and team growth. She has been named one of the 50 leading business thinkers by Thinkers50 and is the author of several award winning books, including Disrupt Yourself, Build an “A” Team and Smart Growth. Whitney is also the host of the Disrupt Yourself Podcast. Whitney joined host Robert Glazer on the Elevate Podcast to talk how leaders can build fast-improving teams. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Whitney Johnson, author of Disrupt Yourself, shares tips for how to identify passions and interests that fill our lives with renewed purpose and meaning and how to find opportunities that allow us to manifest our true potential! Show Note links Dare, Dream, Do: Remarkable Things Happen When You Dare to Dream by Whitney Johnson - Amazon link Disrupt Yourself by Whitney Johnson - Amazon link I Am a Mother by Jane Clayson Johnson Amazon link Disrupt Yourself with Whitney Johnson podcast : 1. Brooke Romney : https://thedisruptionadvisors.com/280-brooke-romney-dont-define-yourself-by-what-can-be-taken-away/ 2. Brooke Snow : https://thedisruptionadvisors.com/brooke-snow/ 3. Arthur C. Brooks : https://thedisruptionadvisors.com/294-arthur-brooks-are-you-investing-in-your-happiness-401k-2/ 4. Sally Helgesen : https://thedisruptionadvisors.com/sally-helgesen/ McKinsey & Company Author Talks : All Along the S-curve : https://www.mckinsey.com/featured-insights/mckinsey-on-books/author-talks-all-along-the-s-curve Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/johnsonwhitney/

Today's Flashback Friday is from episode 587, published last Oct 29, 2015. Jason does a solo episode on today's show and has a number of thoughts he'd like to share with the audience. Jason emphasizes the importance of leveraging not only our investments, but our business, and our biology too. He believes leverage is the key to success and talks on why leverage is so important. Jason also talks on Tony Robbins and his philosophy after attending his seminar last week.   Key Takeaways: 2:43 Today Jason will be diving into more general topics not necessarily related to investing. 3:53 What kind of resources does Jason read? 8:46 Books are too long! 10:06 Jason believes the three most important things in life are our business, biology, and investments. 12:36 Walking 10,000 steps is a pretty big accomplishment. 13:16 The focus of the Creating Wealth show is to gain leverage on our investments. 15:11 The self-driving car could change the location, location, location motto in real estate investing. 19:26 Jason talks about Tony Robbins. 23:11 Can you really decide to be happy? 25:36 What are we really focused on? 30:21 Jason shares his thoughts about the book Talent Code by Daniel Coyle. 32:41 The best way to learn how to be a real estate investor? Buy property! 35:31 Jason shares his thoughts on the book Disrupt Yourself by Jay Samit. 37:56 There's a website that can tell you if you're house is haunted. 41:21 Marijuana and Denver real estate. 43:41 Check out Jason's next events via his website. P.S The Orlando property tour is almost full.   Mentioned In This Episode: http://www.jasonhartman.com/ Tough Times Never Last, But Tough People Do! by Robert H. Schuller Talent Code by Daniel Coyle The Organized Mind by Daniel Levitin. Disrupt Yourself by Jay Samit. http://www.diedinhouse.com/ http://www.newser.com/story/214744/marijuana-having-big-impact-on-denver-real-estate.html   Follow Jason on TWITTER, INSTAGRAM & LINKEDIN Twitter.com/JasonHartmanROI Instagram.com/jasonhartman1/ Linkedin.com/in/jasonhartmaninvestor/ Call our Investment Counselors at: 1-800-HARTMAN (US) or visit: https://www.jasonhartman.com/ Free Class:  Easily get up to $250,000 in funding for real estate, business or anything else: http://JasonHartman.com/Fund CYA Protect Your Assets, Save Taxes & Estate Planning: http://JasonHartman.com/Protect Get wholesale real estate deals for investment or build a great business – Free Course: https://www.jasonhartman.com/deals Special Offer from Ron LeGrand: https://JasonHartman.com/Ron Free Mini-Book on Pandemic Investing: https://www.PandemicInvesting.com

In this episode of Let Go & Lead, Maril talks with bestselling author, world-class coach and CEO and Co-Founder of Disruption Advisors Whitney Johnson. After a successful career on Wall Street, Whitney had an epiphany: she wanted to apply the immense knowledge she'd gained from modeling and analyzing stock performance to see if the same rules could be applied to people. Over a wide-ranging conversation around disruption, Whitney speaks to the power of personal disruption; explains her S-curve model, which she uses to better understand how individuals change and grow; and walks through the seven accelerants of productive disruption. At Gagen MacDonald, we believe that transformation starts within, and Whitney's work deeply reinforces the idea: to change an organization, you need to start by changing yourself.   Learn about:   7:07 Defining the S-curve of learning 10:30 The seven accelerants of personal disruption 14:37 How to disrupt yourself 21:07 How to deal with change detractors 26:22 Tackling current workforce disruptions 33:32 How the energy of disruption accelerates change   —  Whitney Johnson, CEO and Co-Founder of Disruption Advisors, is a world-class coach, globally recognized thought leader, author, keynote speaker and consultant helping organizations operationalize a high-growth mindset in their leaders and teams.  Whitney is the WSJ, USA Today, and Amazon bestselling author of Smart Growth: How to Grow Your People to Grow Your Company (Harvard Business Press, 2022). She shares her passion for personal disruption, helping individuals transform their lives, careers, teams and companies through her keynote addresses; her popular podcast Disrupt Yourself; lectures at Harvard Business School's Corporate Learning; the award-winning books How to Build an A Team, Disrupt Yourself and Dare, Dream, Do; and frequent article contributions to the Harvard Business Review and MIT Sloan Management Review. Whitney is ranked a top talent coach by Marshall Goldsmith 100 Coaches, recognized by Thinkers50 as one of the top 10 leading business thinkers in the world and named Inc.'s 200 Female Founders of 2023. She is co-founder of the Disruptive Innovation Fund with Clayton Christensen, and a former award-winning stock analyst on Wall Street. She now applies her understanding of momentum and growth in stocks to people.  ABOUT LET GO & LEAD   Let Go & Lead is a leadership community created by Maril MacDonald, founder and CEO of Gagen MacDonald. Maril brings together provocateurs, pioneers, thought leaders and those leading the conversation around culture, transformation and change.  Over the course of the past 12 years, Let Go & Lead has existed in many forms, from video interviews to resource guides to its current iteration as a podcast. At its core, it remains a place where people can access a diversity of perspectives on interdisciplinary approaches to leadership. Maril is also working on a book incorporating these insights gathered over the past several years from global leaders and change makers.     Maril has interviewed over 120 leaders — from business to academia and nonprofits to the arts — through the years. In each conversation, from personal anecdotes to ground-breaking scientific analysis, she has probed the lessons learned in leadership. From these conversations, the Let Go & Lead framework has emerged. It is both a personal and organizational resource that aims to serve the individual leader or leadership at scale.    ABOUT GAGEN MACDONALD At Gagen MacDonald, we are dedicated to helping organizations navigate the human struggle of change. We are a people-focused consulting firm and our passion is improving the employee experience — for everyone. For almost 25 years, we have been working with companies to create clarity from chaos by uniting employees across all levels around a single vision so they can achieve results and realize their future. We have been a pioneer in bringing humanity to strategy execution, leading in areas such as organizational communication, culture, leadership, and employee engagement. Our Vision is to lift all humanity by transforming the companies that transform the world.    Full episodes also available on:       Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/let-go-lead-with-maril-macdonald/id1454869525       Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/5Gaf7JXOckZMtkpsMtnjAj?si=WZjZkvfLTX2T4eaeB1PO2A       Google Podcasts: https://podcasts.google.com/feed/aHR0cHM6Ly9sZXRnb2xlYWQubGlic3luLmNvbS9yc3M      —      Gagen MacDonald is a strategy execution consulting firm that specializes in employee engagement, culture change and leadership development. Learn more at http://www.gagenmacdonald.com. 

In this episode of The Thinking Leader, Bryce Hoffman and Marcus Dimbleby talk with Whitney Johnson, CEO and Co-Founder of Disruption Advisors. They discuss disruption in business and the value that disruption plays in making changes. Whitney's core belief is that change comes from the individual, and that disruption on a large-scale starts with disruption on an individual level. Bryce and Whitney reflect on the moments that caused major changes in their lives which started their own journeys of disruption. They consider the different scales of disruption and how, and why, you should implement disruption in your day-to-day life. In this episode: Why Whitney started her journey of disruption What disruption truly means and why you need to start at an individual level The difference between large-scale Disruptions and “little d” disruptions How you can disrupt yourself and why it is so important to do The importance of removing shame from failure and why this will improve your innovation Find out more about Whitney's work with Disruption Advisors on her website, https://thedisruptionadvisors.com/, and to grab a copy of her books, head to https://thedisruptionadvisors.com/books/ Read Whitney's Disrupt Yourself article: https://hbr.org/2012/07/disrupt-yourself-3 Sign up for the Red Team Thinking Boot Camp: https://www.redteamthinking.com/bootcamp-page Sign up to the Red Team Thinking Community - Use the coupon code THINKINGLEADER for a free 30-day trial: https://community.redteamthinking.com/checkout/general-membership Want to find out if you're a Red Team Thinker? Click here to take a free assessment and get your personalized report: https://www.redteamthinking.com/rttassessment Visit our website: https://redteamthinking.com Watch this episode on YouTube: www.red-team.tv Follow us on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/redteamthinking/ Connect with Bryce: https://www.linkedin.com/in/brycehoffman/ Connect with Marcus: https://www.linkedin.com/in/marcusdimbleby/ Bestselling business author Bryce Hoffman and agility expert Marcus Dimbleby talk about decision making, strategy, resilience and leadership with some of the world's best CEOs, cognitive scientists, writers, and thinkers in this weekly podcast. Each episode offers new ideas and insights you can use to become a better leader and a better thinker – because bad leaders react, good leaders plan, and great leaders think!

In today's episode of Partnering Leadership, Mahan speaks with Whitney Johnson. Whitney is the CEO of Disruption Advisors, a tech-enabled talent development company. She also co-founded Disruptive Innovation Fund with Clayton Christensen,  is the host of the Disrupt Yourself podcast, and is the author of the book Smart Growth: How To Grow Your People To Grow Your Company. Whitney Johnson talked about the S-curve of personal, leadership, and organizational growth. Whitney also discussed creating a corporate culture that encourages continuous learning and development and leaders pursuing new S-curves of growth. Highlights:-      Why disruption is about more than products and services-      The three phases of the S-curve of growth-      Whitney Johnson on the neuroscience behind the S-curve-      How leaders can encourage growth in their organizations-      How to use S-curve as a recruiting and retention tool-      Whitney Johnson on the CEO mindset needed for growth-      How to deal with underperforming team members-      The importance of shadow values and how to use them in guiding your growth Mentioned:-      Clayton Christensen, Harvard Business School professor, author, and co-founded Disruptive Innovation Fund-      Everette Rogers, originated the diffusion of innovations theory-      Juan Carlos Mendez-Garcia, co-author of Throw Your Life A Curve-      Patrick Pichette, former CFO of Google-      Sumeet Shetty, Development Manager at SAP-      Innovator's Dilemma by Clayton Christensen-      Disrupt Yourself by Whitney Johnson-      Dare, Deam, Do: Remarkable Things Happen When You Dare To Dream by Whitney Johnson-      Build an A-Team by Whitney Johnson-      The Burnout Epidemic by Jennifer Moss-      How Will You Measure Your Life by Clayton Christensen Connect with Whitney Johnson:Smart Growth Book WebsiteDisrupt Yourself PodcastWhitney Johnson WebsiteWhitney Johnson TwitterWhitney Johnson InstagramWhitney Johnson LinkedIn Connect with Mahan Tavakoli: Mahan Tavakoli Website Mahan Tavakoli on LinkedIn Partnering Leadership Website

“Personal disruption is a process of deliberate self-innovation". In this episode, we discuss how we can apply disruptive thinking— responsible for the success of many products and companies, to our own career. Whitney Johnson is the CEO of Disruption Advisors,and has been recognised as one of the 10 leading business thinkers in the world as named by Thinkers50. She's a world-class keynote speaker, and an executive coach and advisor to CEOs.Whitney is also a frequent contributor to the Harvard Business Review, as well as the author of the Wall Street Journal bestseller book Smart Growth, Build an A Team, and the critically acclaimed Disrupt Yourself. In this episode, we dive into the concepts in her bestselling book, Disrupt Yourself, and unpack the three phases of the S Curve of Learning. Tune in to learn practical tips on how you can optimise each stage of learning and use it to disrupt and supercharge your career for growth and achieve peak performance!  CONNECT WITH US• Subscribe and Follow us @actsplorethispodcast on Instagram/Spotify/Apple Podcasts/YouTube• All you need to know: https://direct.me/actsplorethispodcast• Email: actsplorethis@gmail.com• Buy us a coffee: https://www.buymeacoffee.com/actsplorethis

Welcome to the What's Next! Podcast with Tiffani Bova.    This week we're bringing back a fan-favorite episode of the What's Next! Podcast with Whitney Johnson. Whitney was recognized as one of the world's most influential management thinkers in 2015, was a finalist for the Top Thinkers on Talent at the biennial Thinkers50 ceremony in London, and is best known for her work on driving corporate innovation through personal disruption. She's the author of the critically acclaimed Disrupt Yourself, one of Tiffani's favorite books.    THIS EPISODE IS PERFECT FOR… anybody who wants to learn how to harness change and meet disruption head-on.    TODAY'S MAIN MESSAGE… disruption is bound to happen at work and in your personal life. There are ways to adapt to change so you (and your company) aren't left behind as the rest of the world moves forward.    WHAT  I  LOVE  MOST… the idea that sometimes leaders need to disrupt themselves to kick-start innovation inside of their company.    Running Time: 32:46   Subscribe on iTunes   Find Tiffani on Social: Facebook Twitter LinkedIn   Find Whitney on Social:  Twitter  LinkedIn  Harvard Business Review

Guest Bio: Rita McGrath is a best-selling author,  sought-after advisor and speaker, and  longtime professor at Columbia Business School. Rita is one of the world's top experts on strategy and innovation and is consistently ranked among the top 10 management thinkers in the world, including the #1 award for strategy by Thinkers50.  McGrath's recent book on strategic inflection points is Seeing Around Corners: How to Spot Inflection Points in Business Before They Happen (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2019). Rita is the author of four other books, including the best-selling The End of Competitive Advantage (Harvard Business Review Press, 2013). Since the onset of the pandemic, Rita has created workshops, strategy sessions and keynotes, applying her tools and frameworks to strategy under high levels of uncertainty to specific issues organizations are facing.  As Rui Barbas, the Chief Strategy Officer for Nestle USA said, “You were incredibly insightful and, despite the virtual setting, there was lots of engagement and comments from leaders sharing eye-opening observations and building on your examples throughout. You delivered the inspiration and illustration desired and it was exactly the right focus and challenge for this team. Appreciate your time throughout the process to align on content and delivery. The future-focus theme was the perfect close to our leadership summit.” Rita's work is focused on creating unique insights.  She has also founded Valize a companion company, dedicated to turning those insights into actionable capability.  You can find out more about Valize at www.valize.com. McGrath received her Ph.D. from the Wharton School (University of Pennsylvania) and has degrees with honors from Barnard College and the Columbia School of International and Public Affairs. She is active on all the main social media platforms, such as Twitter @rgmcgrath.  For more information, visit RitaMcGrath.com.   Social Media/ Websites: LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/ritamcgrath/ Twitter: @rgmcgrath Instagram: @ritamcgrathofficial Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/user/rgmcgrath Websites: https://ritamcgrath.com and valize.com Rita's Newsletter/ Articles Substack: https://thoughtsparks.substack.com/ Medium: https://rgmcgrath.medium.com/ LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/newsletters/thought-sparks-6787762418471755776/ Books Seeing Around Corners by Rita McGrath https://www.amazon.co.uk/Seeing-Around-Corners-Inflection-Business/dp/0358022339 The Entrepreneurial Mindset by Rita Gunther McGrath and Ian MacMillian https://www.amazon.co.uk/Entrepreneurial-Mindset-Continuously-Opportunity-Uncertainty/dp/0875848346 The End of Competitive Advantage by Rita Gunther McGrath https://www.amazon.co.uk/End-Competitive-Advantage-Strategy-Business/dp/1422172813 Disrupt Yourself by Whitney Johnson https://www.amazon.co.uk/Disrupt-Yourself-New-Introduction-Relentless/dp/1633698785 Humanocracy by Gary Hamel and Michele Zanini https://www.amazon.co.uk/Humanocracy-Creating-Organizations-Amazing-People/dp/1633696022 Reimagining Capitalism by Rebecca Henderson https://www.amazon.co.uk/Reimagining-Capitalism-Business-Save-World/dp/0241379660 When More is Not Better by Roger L. Martin https://www.amazon.co.uk/When-More-Not-Better-Overcoming/dp/1647820065/ Being An Adult by Lucy Tobin https://www.amazon.co.uk/Being-Adult-ultimate-getting-together-ebook/dp/B07GQ1KRTC/ Only The Paranoid Survive by Andy Grove https://www.amazon.co.uk/Only-Paranoid-Survive-Andrew-Grove/dp/1861975139  Ula Ojiaku: My guest today is Dr. Rita McGrath. She's a best-selling author, a sought-after speaker and advisor and consistently ranked among the top 10 management thinkers in the world, including the #1 award for strategy by Thinkers50. In this episode, Rita talked about the concept of inflection points from her book ‘Seeing Around Corners' and how as leaders, we can train ourselves to spot these inflection points and act on the information we receive. She also talked about making complex things simple for the people we work with. I learnt a lot speaking with Rita and I'm sure you will find this conversation insightful as well. Thank you again for watching! It's an honor to have you on the show, Rita McGrath. Many, many thanks for joining us. Rita McGrath: Well, thank you Ula. It's a pleasure to be here. Ula Ojiaku: Great. Now, can you tell us about yourself? How did the Rita, Dr. Rita McGrath we know today evolve? Rita McGrath:  Well, it would have to start with my parents, of course. I mean, all great stories start with your parents. And so, my parents were both scientists. My mother was a Microbiologist, and my father was an Organic Chemist. And so, I grew up in a house where, you know, (if) a question couldn't be answered, you went and got the reference book and figured it out. And both, (had) incredible respect for science and for diligence. And, you know, the house was always full of books and lots of emphasis on learning. I wouldn't say we were, financially all that well-off – we weren't poor by any means. But it was, you know, there wasn't like a lot of money to spare, but there was always money for books, and there was always money for, you know, educational experiences and that kind of thing. So, that's the household I grew up in. So, my parents, when I was born, were both on the staff at the Yale Medical School. So, they were both researchers there. And then my dad in the late 60s, got an offer to go join this upstart, fledgling company that was at the cutting edge of all kinds of things in his field and that was Xerox Corporation. And he was very conflicted about leaving academia, but went off eventually to Xerox. So, we moved the family to Rochester, New York. So that's where I did most of my growing up. And my mother at that time, decided to stay home, more or less. And then she started a scientific translation business. So, she moved into an entrepreneurial career more than her scientific career. And then when it came time to go to college, I went to Barnard College in the City of New York. I'd always thought New York was an amazing place and was accepted there. So, went off to New York, did my Bachelor's and my Master's in Political Science and Public Policy. I was very interested in public policy and matters of social contract and those kinds of things. And then my first job was actually with the City of New York, I ran purchasing systems for government agencies. It doesn't sound very glamorous. But today, we would call it digital transformation. It was the very first wave of companies taking their operations in a digital form. And it was very exciting and I learned a lot. Then I got to the end of… the thing about public service is when you start, there's (this) unlimited sort of growth that can happen for a few years, and then it really just levels off. And you're never going to go beyond that. So, I kind of reached that headroom and decided to do something different. Ula Ojiaku:  Was it at that point that you decided to go for your PhD? Rita McGrath:  And that was one of the options I was considering. And my husband basically said, ‘look, if you get into a top five school, it's worth doing and if you don't, it's probably not.' But you have to think in that time, MBA programs were just exploding, and there'd been a lot of pressure on the administrators of MBA programs, to put PhD accredited faculty in front of their students. The big knock against the MBA at the time was, oh, they're just trade schools. You know, we've got some guy who ran an entire company comes in and talks and that's not really academically suitable. And so, there was a huge pressure for schools to find PhD accredited people-  that still exists (but) the market pressures has changed a lot. But when I was doing my PhD, it was pretty sure I would get a job if I managed to complete the degree. So that that gave me that extra input to do that. Ula Ojiaku:  Did you already have like children when you started the PhD? Rita McGrath: Yes Ula Ojiaku:  And how did you cope? Rita McGrath:  Our son was, how old was he? He would have been nine months old when I started my PhD program. Yeah. Ula Ojiaku: Wow, 9 months old. Rita McGrath: Oh, yeah, it was a real challenge. And I guess everybody manages those kinds of challenges in their own way. But yeah, it was a struggle because, you know, typical day would be you know, get up, get the baby to daycare or wherever and then do school or whatever I had to do that day. And then it was sort of pick them up. By the time I had a second child it was pick them up, get them dinner, get them bedtime, get them story, and then I'll be back at my desk at nine o'clock at night, trying to do what I needed to do. So, it was a new turn. It was tough. It was difficult years. I mean, joyful years though but it was just hard to fit everything in. Ula Ojiaku:  I can imagine. I mean, although I'm thinking of starting my PhD (studies), my children aren't that small but I do remember the time (they were), you know, I was still working full time. So, the challenge is you'd go to work and then come back to work. I mean, to another type of work. And then when they go to bed, the work continues. Yeah, it's interesting. Rita McGrath: Quite exhausting. Ula Ojiaku: You can say that. I'm so glad they're not in diapers anymore. So, it's baby steps, we are getting there. So, can we go on to your book, “Seeing Around Corners, How to Spot Inflection Points in Business Before They Happen”. I'd like to start from an unusual place in the book. I started from the dedication page, and you know, reading everything, and I noticed that, you referred to a conversation, one of the last conversations you had with your mother. Could you tell us about that? Rita McGrath:  Oh sure. She was well, at the time, she was quite ill, she had sarcoma in her lung, and she was quite ill. It's a horrible disease, and we haven't got any real treatments for it. So, the recommendation is you do chemo and that really knocks you out. So, she was quite ill and sort of migrating between the chair and the couch and the chair and the couch. And in one of those conversations, she just said ‘I want you to know I'm proud of you. And I've had a good life and I'm prepared for whatever comes next.' And I thought that was lovely of her to say and I thought in that moment to pass it on to all these other women. And you know you bring up motherhood and being a working woman and all those complicated emotions that come with that because there seems to be guilt around every corner you know, if you're not at home full time, oh you're a terrible mom. And if you're not at work full time, you're a terrible worker. I just I think so many of those things are just designed to twist us up into little balls. And when I look at my own mother's experience - she was a working woman… I grew up but I think I'm third or fourth generation working woman so it never even occurred to me that wouldn't be possible. But I think what often is missing is this validation, you know that for women who are trying to you know make their way professionally and be great, responsible parents and do all these other things that often there's a sense of a lack of self-worth you know, ‘oh, I'm not doing enough.' The more I hear that… Ula Ojiaku:  I feel like that some… most days I feel like that… Rita McGrath: Believe me, you are doing enough Ula Ojiaku:  Sometimes I ask my children, am I a good mom? Rita McGrath:  I think part of it too is we, and when I say we, I mean baby boomer mothers and maybe a little younger. We got ourselves all tangled up in this if it's not like organic, hand-processed  lima beans with you know, organic succotash, mixed in you know, it's not good baby food. Honestly, Gerber's exists to provide perfectly nutritious food for really young babies and they've been doing it for decades and you can trust that and if it makes your life easier, go with it. Ula Ojiaku:  Thank you! Rita McGrath: You know, I think we I think we get ourselves all tossed up in like, what does good mean? I mean, honestly, the kids don't mind you know? I mean, they'd celebrate if it was chicken finger night. Ula Ojiaku:  Let's go to the book. You know, because in your book you said you it's about how to spot inflections before they happen in business. Can you give us examples of, you know, businesses that had these inflection points occur, and they failed to recognize it and what was the impact? Rita McGrath:  Sure, let's take one that is quite sad to me, which is Intel. And Intel built its, well, Intel went through a major inflection point, in fact, the originator of the concept was Andy Grove, who was their former CEO. And he talked about his inflection points in his book, Only the Paranoid Survive, which is really a brilliant, brilliant book. And one of the reasons I wrote my book was that very little had been done since his book on that topic. And Grove built this incredible company, Intel. And they were making microprocessor chips. And they were very, very powerful, very fast chips. And so, the assumptions inside Intel's business model was, what customers were going to pay for was faster, faster, faster, more computation power, more and more powerful. But what they didn't really think about was energy consumption. And as the world went more mobile… so the Intel product is the PC, and the PC, the desktop PC remains firmly plugged into the wall. And then later, we make PC chips that maybe have slightly lower power consumption to power PCs, but it's still that notion of power, you know, and I think the inflection point that caught Intel by surprise, to some extent was, this movement towards mobile, where the vast majority of chips being made were these completely different architecture chips by  companies like ARM and you know, and companies like that, which, from their inception, recognized that low power was the way to go. Then they weren't very powerful in the sense of speed, which is what Intel was driving its business towards. But they were powerful in the sense of ubiquitous low power, long battery life, that kind of thing. And I think that's an example of the kind of assumption that can cause a company to get into trouble, when the underlying shift in the business environment says, ‘wait a minute, this thing you've been building all this time may not be what is needed by the marketplace.' Ula Ojiaku:  That's interesting. So, it brings me to the point of, the points you made about, you know, the indicators, the early warnings, and you mentioned the concept of you know lagging, current and leading indicators. And there was an emphasis in your book on, you know, leading indicators. Could you tell us a bit about that? Rita McGrath:  Sure. Well, so leading indicators are today's information about tomorrow's possibilities. And what we unfortunately rely on a lot in business is lagging indicators - so profits, performance, you know, ROI, all those things are lagging some kind of decision that you made a long time ago. So, the concept of leading indicators is to try to get business leaders to think about what would have to be true, you know, before I was able to make a certain decision, what are the leading indicators? So, an example would be back in the 90s, computer scientists all over the world realized that come the year 2000, from the turn of the millennium, that the way computer programs had been programmed, was only two digits for the year. And so, when the year went to zero-zero, computers, were going to think it was 1900 and this was going to be terrible. Because they all get out of sync, you know, and planes would drop out of the sky. You're gonna become unstable, and you'll all need to move to Montana and stuff … I don't know if you can remember this. Ula Ojiaku: Yeah, the Y2K bug… Rita McGrath: Oh my goodness…! Ula Ojiaku: It was a big sensation. Yeah… Rita McGrath: Apocalyptic – remember?! And yet, when the big moment came the year 2000. What happened? Well, nothing happened. Why did nothing happen? We looked at that early warning, and we said, whoa, if that happens, it's bad. And then so companies, prodded by their accounting firms, prodded by other security considerations invested billions in correcting that flaw. And so, that's an example of an early warning. And there are a couple of things to understand about early warning. So, the first important thing is, the measure of a good early warning is not, did it predict what happened. The measure of a good leading indicator is, did it help you prepare for what might happen? And so, I think that's a really important distinction, because we oftentimes, oh, you that didn't predict this or that. But that's not the point. The point is, did it help you think more broadly about what might happen so that you could be prepared? So, I think that's the first thing. The second thing to remember about leading indicators is they're often not quantitative in the way that we like to think about quantitative things. They're often qualitative. They often take the form of stories. And they often come from what are called unrepresentative parts of your mental ecosystem. So, you know, it's that person on the loading dock (saying to themselves), ‘this is, well, that's weird, a customer never asked for that before', or the person answering the phone, you know, in headquarters going, ‘Well, I don't understand why they need that information…' You know, it's those little anomalies or things that depart from business as usual, that are often the weak signals that you need to be paying attention to. Ula Ojiaku:  So, can you give us an example where you mean, I mean, of how we can go about choosing good leading indicators? Rita McGrath:  Well, in the book, I describe a technique that I use, which is you take a couple of uncertainties and juxtapose them on each other. And that gives you four or more you can do this for as many as you like, stories from the future, possibly a future that we could live in. And then depending on which one you want to think about, you say, ‘okay, I'm gonna write a headline as if it came from a newspaper story about that scenario. And I'm gonna work backwards and say, what has to be true for that headline to emerge.' So, take an example that's playing out right now, chronic and accelerating decline in birth rates in the United States. People are just deciding not to enlarge their families or not to start their families at all. And for very good reasons, you know, the level of social support for families is very low. Mostly women are bearing the burden. And very often women are the ones that make a large part of the decision about whether the family is going to grow or not. And so, we're facing a real baby bust. Well, if that's true, and we follow that along, well, what are some things that would be early warnings or indicators of what that world will be like? Well, you'll see a decline of working people relative to retired people, or people needing assistance, you'll see, you know, fewer kids with more resources to support them. So, the kind of baby Prince phenomena we saw in China. There are lots of things you can kind of work through. But once you say, ‘okay, I see a world with a million fewer children three years from now, than we would have expected well, okay, what now working backward? What does that tell us we need to be paying attention to today? Ula Ojiaku:  Yes, yes. That's a great example. And I wonder, though, so given all, you know, the research that has led to, and your experience as well, consulting with, you know, most of these large organizations, the case studies, you've come to witness and all that, what would you, what would be your advice to leaders of such organizations, you know, in terms of how they can better prepare themselves or equip themselves to recognize these inflection points, and lead effectively? Rita McGrath:  Well, I think the first principle is you have to be discovery driven. In other words, you have to be curious about what's going on. And if you're the kind of leader who (when) someone brings you a piece of information, and instead of treating it like a gift, you're like, oh no, you don't understand that's wrong. That's not the way the world works. If you're dismissive of information people are bringing you that's very dangerous. Because the information you need is not going to come from your lieutenants at headquarters, it's going to come from that guy on the loading dock. So, I think you want to think about establishing some kind of information flows, that go directly from where the phenomena are happening to your desk. So, as an example, a company I really admire is the German metal services company Klockner. And their CEO, Gisbert Ruehl was taking them through a digital transformation. And his big concern was not that they meant it, right? But that his lieutenants, his middle manager, cohort, would be so expert, and so experienced at the way business was, that they would just shut down these digital efforts. And he was very, very concerned about that. He said, well, I need some way of making my message heard directly to the people that are on the frontlines and I also need a way of hearing from them what's going on. So, he implemented Yammer, called non-hierarchical communication. And the deal was anybody in the company that had something he needed to know should feel comfortable sending him a note. And I'm told, I don't know this for a fact that I'm told that at headquarters, he had his instance of Yammer set up so that the lower the hierarchical level of the person, the higher it came in his newsfeed. Ula Ojiaku: Oh, wow. Rita McGrath: So, you know, I can talk to my lieutenants, anytime. Information I need is in the, you know, 24-year-old person who's just joined us with an engineering degree, who's looking at our manufacturing process for screwdrivers and saying, ‘Why do you do it that way? There must be a better way of doing this…' That's the information I really need and he set up a whole system to try to get that information to him, to himself. Ula Ojiaku:  Would you say there's a typical kind of leader with, you know, some certain characteristics that's best equipped to spot the inflection point, and you know, kind of lead the charge and get the organizations in line? Rita McGrath:  You know, I think it's more of the behavior, it's not the characteristics. So, I've seen charismatic, attractive, you know, movie star type CEOs be good at this. I've seen people you look at and you go ‘Really? He looks kind of like he slept in his clothes all night.' I've seen those people be good at it. So, you know, I think the differentiation is this, this hunger for new information, this curiosity, this relentless… ‘tell me again…' and ‘why was that and why was that?' It is this urgent need to really learn what's going on. And then and then putting yourself in the, in the context. So, one of the people I'm working with right now is a brilliant retail CEO, and everything. And one of the things he would do before hiring anybody into his senior team, is he would spend a day or two walking the stores, you know, and in his explanation to me was, ‘I want to see how they react to the stores. I want to see how they treat the people working in stores. I want to see what they notice, you know, I want to see if they notice that there's a thing out of array and I want to see how they are with me, like if they spend their whole two days in store visits, sucking up to me - that's not somebody I need, you know. And so, I think the best leaders along those lines are people who are relentlessly curious, bring people around them who are diverse, you know, you don't just want echo chambers of themselves. Ula Ojiaku:  True, true. You don't want ‘yes' men if you really want to make an impact really. Yeah, and how can I, as a person, train myself to also recognize these inflection points. Rita McGrath:  Well, it depends what the inflection point is. So, if it's a question of, you've been making nice steady progress in your career, and now you've hit some kind of ceiling and you just feel you're not growing or developing any more, then that choice is really okay, I need to… the way Whitney Johnson would put this, she's written a great book on this, “Disrupt Yourself”, right? You go up this S curve, then you need to make the decision if you're going to take on the J curve, right, which is the part below the S curve before you get into the next round of learning. So, that's a personal decision, really only you can make a decision like that. Then there are the cases where inflection points are thrust upon you. So you lose a job, your spouse has some setback, a family member has an urgent need that makes whatever you were doing before impossible. I mean, there's all kinds of outside things that can happen to you. Ula Ojiaku: Yeah… Rita McGrath: And I think the best way to try to look at those is. ‘is this a slingshot to a better future, potentially?' And you know, how many people have you talked to who got fired, and some years later say, ‘that was the best thing that ever happened to me, it shook me out of my complacency. It made me think differently.' And so, I think a lot of times, you know, we, it's very comfortable (staying) stuck in our ruts. And sometimes it takes a bit of a jolt to get us out of that. Ula Ojiaku:  That's a great one. Can I just ask you about so it's not really about your book, Seeing Around Corners, but this one is about the Entrepreneurial Mindset? Just one quick question. Because there's a quote, in your book, that book that says, you know, “the huge part of becoming an entrepreneurial leader is learning to simplify complexity, so that your co-workers can act with self-confidence.” That quote, it made me kind of be more conscious about, am I really making things simpler for my co-workers instead of, you know, rather than to enable us, you know, achieve the best that we could as a group? So why did you, make that quote and associate it with an Entrepreneurial Mindset? Rita McGrath:  Well, because if you make things complicated for people, there's maybe three responses, right? One is they'll start on whatever they start on, which is kind of random. And maybe they finish it, and maybe they don't, but it's really now you're leaving it to chance. Because if you give people more to digest than they can manage, you're going to get back some fraction of it. So that's one thing. Second thing that happens is, if it's too complex, a lot of times people will pick what they want to do, not have anything to do with the agenda that you want to set for the organization. And the third thing is there's just a laziness that comes from having things be complex. I know for myself, when I've had to do strategy statements for myself, or my business, it takes a long, long time to get it done into a few simple things. And each word has to mean something. So, as an example, some years back, I started a sister company. It's called Valize. And the strategy really is to its mission, its purpose for me, is to help organizations create innovation and transformation capability as the basis for shared prosperity. And that sounds really simple. That sounds really kind of ‘duh, that's not so grand, but I mean, the hours it took to get to that simplicity of statement. And then once you've got something like that, you can go back and you could say, okay, well, here's the thing that I'm being asked to do or think I'm thinking of, does it build capability? Yes. No. Does it build shared prosperity? Yes, no. Does it help organizations to help themselves? Yes, no. And it sorts out a lot of stuff means a lot of stuff we could do. But there are only a few things that really fit into that sweet spot of shared capability. So, having that simplification allows you to clear out a lot of the …, there are always wonderful options that you got to do things, right? And it's a question of abundance, you've usually got more great options than you could possibly exercise. So, picking the best ones is the challenge. Ula Ojiaku:  Wow, wow. I'm going to listen to this part again. You've mentioned some books already, like Andy Grove's, Only the Paranoid, I mean, Only the Paranoid survive. And you've mentioned the book, Disrupt Yourself… In addition to these books, and your wonderful suite of books, what other books would you recommend to the audience that you believe have influenced you that you'd recommend to the listeners that would help them you know, learn more about this topic? Rita McGrath: Oh, that's hard, because there's so many. Well, I love Safi Bahcall's Loonshots. I think that's a brilliant, brilliant book. And it really gets to the heart of how innovation actually happens rather than how we think it happens. I rather like Gary Hamel's and Michele Zanini's book, Humanocracy which has the basic question, you know, if you look at Instagram, or Twitter or any of these social platforms, you see these people who are just brilliant. I mean, they're creating incredibly creative stuff. And then we put them inside companies. And we insist that they do things by the rule, and we block all the creativity out of them. So, why do we do that? You know, I think that's a really great one. I'm very taken with Rebecca Henderson's, Re-imagining Capitalism in a World on Fire. Very, very brilliant. Roger Martin, When More is not Better. Just recently had a Julie Lythcott-Haims on my fireside chat program, which is and she's got a book called Your Turn, How to be an Adult”, which is, on a personal level, absolutely fascinating - really good book. I like Peter Sim's, Little Bets. You know, they're just so many I mean, I wouldn't even know where to where to start. Those are the ones that are sort of top of mind at the moment. Ula Ojiaku:  Okay. scribbling away as you're talking, and yeah, these all these would be in the show notes with the links to them. So that's great. Now, how can the audience reach you? If they want to, you know follow your work. Rita McGrath: The best place to start is my website, which is really ritamcgrath.com, that's easy. I have columns that I write for. They're currently going up on substack and medium. If you just search my name and or medium, you'll find me there. I do weekly, LinkedIn post, which goes to subscribers on LinkedIn. Also, that's all sort of good places to start. Ula Ojiaku:  Okay. Are you on social media? Rita McGrath:  Oh, yes. So yes. I'm on Twitter @RGMcGrath. And I'm on LinkedIn. Okay. I'm not on Facebook so much. But I have put things I post there, but I'm not really on it very much. Ula Ojiaku:  Okay. All right. That's, I mean, thanks for those. Now, let's wrap up any ask of the audience first? Rita McGrath:  I think we're in a remarkable moment, right now, you know, we've had so many of our previous habits and assumptions disrupted, that I think it would be a shame to lose, to lose all that and just go back to the way things were. So, I think it's an opportunity to reflect and to really think about, what kind of future do we want to build now that so many of our assumptions and institutions have been challenged, and we learned whole new tricks, we learned whole new ways to do things. Let's not just snap back to the way it was, let's think about inventing better. Rita McGrath:  Really, I think there's going to be great opportunity coming out of this current crisis and those who are thinking ahead will benefit from it. Ula Ojiaku:  Okay, great. Well, Rita, thank you so much for your time, and it's been a pleasure again, having you on the show. Rita McGrath: Thank you very much.  

Tom Peters has walked many, many paths in life, more than many of us can claim. He's been a Navy Seabee overseas in Vietnam, a White House advisor, a McKinsey consultant, even a PBS show host. You might know him as the author of the 80s management bestseller, "In Search of Excellence." Recently, Tom had the idea to start up a podcast of his own, and asked our host Whitney to be his first guest. Tom even had a name for the podcast ready: "Extreme Humanism," after another of his books. The two friends talked in front of microphones for over an hour, and then Tom retired, deservedly so. With Tom's permission, we're happy to polish up that tape and present a bonus episode of Disrupt Yourself, one where Whitney actually won't be doing the interviewing. Join us (and Whitney's daughter, Miranda!) for a thoughtful dialogue about drawing maps to nowhere, five-star generals in the Indian military, and everything in between.

In this fascinating conversation that flows from music school to investment banking, from balance in your career to balance on the dance floor, this interview with world-leading coach Whitney Johnson is quite the journey. With millions of followers, she's the celebrated CEO of Disruption Advisors, a leadership development company helping you grow your people to grow your organisation.A Wall Street Journal, USA Today and Amazon bestselling author, Whitney was named by Thinkers50 as one of the ten leading business thinkers in the world. She is a world class keynote speaker with a quite extraordinary 1.8 million followers on LinkedIn. Her course on Fundamentals of Entrepreneurship has been viewed more than a million times, and her ‘LinkedIn Live's have also had more than a million cumulative views.Whitney is a frequent contributor to the Harvard Business Review, as well as the author of the Wall Street Journal bestselling books ‘Smart Growth', ‘Build An A Team', and the critically acclaimed ‘Disrupt Yourself'. Integral to her work is the weekly Disrupt Yourself Podcast which has millions of downloads.Let's get disruptive – it's one of my favourite sports!--Whitney Johnson: https://thedisruptionadvisors.com/Disrupt Yourself podcast on Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/7cn2cgc34znzwPkkwH58sQ

Get ready to be inspired as Kathleen Duffy sits down with Whitney Johnson, the CEO of Disruption Advisors and a globally recognized thought leader in talent development. Named a Top 10 Business Thinker by Thinkers50 in 2021, Whitney is a LinkedIn Top Voice with 1.8 million followers and the bestselling author of Smart Growth: How to Grow Your People to Grow Your Company. On her top-ranked podcast, Disrupt Yourself, Whitney has interviewed some of the most renowned thinkers in the world, including Brené Brown, Adam Grant, Susan Cain, and General Stanley McChrystal. She also shares her passion for personal disruption, helping individuals transform their lives, careers, teams, and companies through her keynote addresses, lectures at Harvard Business School's Corporate Learning, and her LinkedIn Learning course Fundamentals of Entrepreneurship. Join Kathleen and Whitney as they dive into the world of personal disruption, business growth, and talent development. This episode is not to be missed!

Whitney Johnson - Author and CEO, Disruption Advisors Imagine for a moment that you're suddenly forced to switch to your non-dominant hand for a week. Getting dressed, feeding yourself, brushing your teeth–the tasks you used to do on autopilot have now become deeply challenging and awkward. But by the end of the experiment, you've gotten the hang of it! What was once an inconvenience has gifted you a new set of skills. Our guest today has spent her career empowering others to embrace disruption, both at the personal and organizational level. She's found that with the right support and mindset, continuously seeking out the uncomfortable is the only way to keep growing throughout our lives. Today, she'll guide our discussion with the powerful question:    How can self-imposed disruption accelerate your development? A conversation with Whitney Johnson, on this episode of Lead With a Question. Guest Bio: A non-exhaustive list of Whitney's many accomplishments: –––Top 10 Business Thinker globally, according to Thinkers50 –––Co-founder and CEO, Disruption Advisors, an Inc Power Partner 2022 honoree (B2B partners founders can't live without) –––WSJ bestselling author, Smart Growth: How to Grow Your People to Grow Your Company (Harvard Business Review Press: 2022) –––Host of Disrupt Yourself podcast, top .5% globally in terms of listenership. Guests have included Brené Brown, Leena Nair, Alexi Robichaux and Simon Sinek –––Former co-founder of Disruptive Innovation Fund with Harvard's Clayton Christensen and award-winning Wall Street analyst –––Lives in Lexington, VA where they grow strawberries, raspberries and blackberries https://thedisruptionadvisors.com/ --------- Please like, subscribe, rate, and review! Every listener interaction helps others discover the show too! Learn about the work we're doing at Bravecore by visiting our website at Home - Bravecore To drop us a line, head over to Contact - Bravecore

Recommend this show by sharing the link: pod.link/2Pages Two things I love about Whitney Johnson are her relentless drive for self-improvement, and her incredible generosity. As the CEO of WLJ Advisors, she aims to help you grow your people and your business. Whitney is best known for her book Disrupt Yourself, but today she'll be reading from her first book Dare, Dream, Do: Remarkable Things Happen When You Dare to Dream. Get‌ ‌book‌ ‌links‌ ‌and‌ ‌resources‌ ‌at‌ https://www.mbs.works/2-pages-podcast/  Whitney reads two pages from her book ‘Dare, Dream, Do.' [reading begins at 4:50]   Hear us discuss:  Dreaming with your beliefs in mind: “We do dream within the context of our values, but how do I know what my values are?” [2:02]  | The role of quotes in articulating your values: “Attaching a quote to something adds feeling, emotion and memory, and evokes so much more than individual words do.” [9:00] | A quote's shelf life: Does it remain resonant over time? [12:54]

When you are up to your eyeballs in the Good Work you do every day, it's sometimes impossible to figure out how to level up and get to your Great Work. That's why I'm excited to be speaking to Whitney Johnson, the author of Disrupt Yourself: Putting the Power of Disruptive Innovation to Work, as well as Dare, Dream, Do: Remarkable Things Happen When You Dare to Dream. Whitney's a recognized thought leader on driving corporate innovation through personal disruption. (Be sure to tune into her Disrupt Yourself podcast.) In this conversation, we really get into: Strategies for getting to the next level Signals that it might be time for a new challenge Failure, and why that's important How to figure out what your next level might be When to stay and when to go

Today Debbie talks with Ayse Birsel. She's an award-winning industrial designer whose firm has designed hundreds of products for brand name companies like Herman Miller, Ikea and Target. And that includes a product you may have sat on: a toilet seat.She's taken her industrial design methodology, broken it down, simplified it, made it fun and inviting… and turned it into a process for life design. The result is her second and newest book: Design the Long Life You Love: A Step-by-Step Guide to Love, Purpose, Well-Being, and Friendship. One of her key points is that life, just like a design problem, is full of constraints -- time, money, age, location, and circumstances. And if you're an older adult reimagining your last chapter, you know what your final "constraint" is. You can't have everything, so you have to be creative. You have to think like a designer. You have to get ideas and beliefs out of your head and down onto paper and cultivate an attitude of playfulness and optimism - if you want to change. So the book is filled with Ayse's whimsical drawings, and her step-by-step maps: for how to make new friends, how to reimagine work, how to create meaning, how to separate achievement from success, how to check your well-being index, and more. One of Debbie's favorite exercises: how to reconcile yourself to unresolved issues. Make a list, Ayse says, pick three, personify them and write them a letter and then let them go.Ayse calls her method deconstruction / reconstruction. That means deconstruct your life, do a lot of exploring through scribbling and list-making and drawing, and then reconstruct the life you want. Her new book is jammed with exercises and lists and interviews with her favorite mentors. Ayse says you have to draw (even if you think you can't) every day to rev up your creative brain. Debbie's advance copy is littered with yellow sticky notes as well as scribbles and arrows. She can't draw but is trying anyway. Mentioned in this episode or useful:Design the Long Life You Love: A Step-by-Step Guide to Love, Purpose, Well-Being, and Friendship by Ayse Birsel (Running Press Adult, Dec. 6, 2022)Ayse's Websiteaysebirsel.com/newsletterDesigner couple: Ayse Birsel and Bibi Seck3 Strategies to Disrupt Yourself for Greater Success in Changing Times by Ayse Birsel (Fast Company, 9/22/22)Results of her study: CO-DESIGNING WITH OLDER PEOPLE (SCAN Foundation Full Report)Ayse's TEDxCannes talk, If your life is your biggest project, why not design it? (800K+ views)Design the Life You Love: A Step-by-Step Guide to Building a Meaningful Future by Ayse Birsel (Ten Speed Press, 2015)Shirley F. MoultonA book with a similar title by two Stanford professors: Designing Your Life by Bill Burnett and Dave Evans (Knopf, 2016) Get the inside skinny on every episode of [B]OLDER:Subscribe to Debbie's newsletter for the inside story about every episode. You will also get her 34-page writing guide: https://bitly.com/debbie-free-guide. Request from Debbie:If you've been enjoying the podcast, please take a moment to leave a short review on Apple Podcasts. It really makes a difference in attracting new listeners. Connect with Debbie:debbieweil.com[B]OLDER podcastEmail: thebolderpodcast@gmail.comBlog: Gap Year After SixtyFacebook: @debbieweilInstagram: @debbieweilLinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/debbieweilTwitter: @debbieweil Our Media Partners:CoGenerate (formerly Encore.org)MEA and with thanks to Chip ConleyNext For Me (former media partner and in memory of Jeff Tidwell) How to Support this podcast:Leave a review on Apple PodcastsSubscribe via Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts, Stitcher or Spotify Credits:Host: Debbie WeilProducer: Far Out MediaMusic: Lakeside Path by Duck Lake

Whitney Johnson, CEO and Co-Founder of Disruption Advisors, a Top 10 Business Thinker by Thinkers50, bestselling author, keynote speaker, executive coach and consultant, host of the Disrupt Yourself podcast, and a LinkedIn Top Voice joins me on this episode. Whitney shares her passion for personal disruption, helping individuals transform their lives, careers, teams, and companies, through her books and articles, keynote addresses, lectures at Harvard Business School's Corporate Learning, and her LinkedIn Learning course Fundamentals of Entrepreneurship which has been viewed more than 1 million times. Topics we cover include Whitney's backstory, the importance of belief, asking ourselves operating questions, a discussion of the book Smart Growth and the S-curve of learning, the six stages of growth, and more. Get connected with Whitney: Website: https://thedisruptionadvisors.com/  LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/whitneyjohnson/  Twitter: https://twitter.com/johnsonwhitney  Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/johnsonwhitney/  Purchase a copy of Smart Growth: https://www.amazon.com/Smart-Growth-Grow-People-Company/dp/1647821150  Check out the amazing sponsors of this episode: http://chenzoweb.com/ https://1565coffee.com/ https://ambitious.com/ *1565 Artisan Coffee Special Offer: Get 15% off your order when you use promo code COFFEECHAT at checkout. *Ambitious Special Offer: Get $10 off your order of Ambitious EDGE when you use promo code COFFEECHAT at checkout. Want to learn how you can work with me to gain more clarity, build a rock solid foundation for your business, and achieve the results and success you deserve? Visit http://jayscherrbusinessconsulting.com/ and schedule a 1:1 discovery coaching call. Enjoy, thanks for listening, and please share with a friend! To your success, Jay

Today we welcome Whitney Johnson, CEO and co-founder of the tech-enabled talent development company Disruption Advisors. Whitney is a globally recognized thought leader, keynote speaker, executive coach, and consultant. She is a frequent lecturer at Harvard Business Publishing's Corporate Learning division. She is also the bestselling author of Disrupt Yourself and Build an A Team. Her latest book is called Smart Growth: How to Grow Your People to Grow Your Company.In this episode, I talk to Whitney Johnson about business growth. According to Whitney, the development of the individual comes first before the company's. Growth can be better understood using the S Curve of Learning which has three phases: the Launch Point, the Sweet Spot, and Mastery. By comprehending the cycle of growth, we can find ways to move forward when we feel stuck in both our professional and personal lives. We also touch on the topics of flow, creativity, transcendence, success, and leadership.Website: www.whitneyjohnson.comTwitter: @johnsonwhitney Topics01:35 Disruption Advisors07:55 The S Curve of Learning11:13 Optimize your team for growth14:23 Mastery and transcendence16:18 Peak experience and peak performance21:26 The S Curve as a retention tool25:00 Excavating your shadow values28:13 Grow your people to grow your company33:53 Create the conditions for growth37:19 The S Curve is a dopamine management exercise40:20 When to quit and change careers 42:51 Changing the metrics of success47:16 Disrupt yourself a little bit everyday

What do you do when life goes unexpectedly? How do you deal with the change? In this podcast episode, I go through some KEY CONCEPTS from our Pro Book Club meeting where we read “Disrupt Yourself” by Whitney Johnson. Listen to learn these key concepts and find ways to HARNESS this change and disruption in your life to make it USEFUL and HELPFUL for you. Want to join my next Pro Book Club meeting? Join Pronunciation Pro now so you can find out what our next book is and attend our next book club! Click here to now! https://pronunciationpro.com/

Whitney Johnson is an innovative thinker on individual and team growth. She has been named one of the 50 leading business thinkers by Thinkers50 and is the author of several award winning books, including Disrupt Yourself, Build an “A” Team, and her latest, Smart Growth. Whitney is also the host of the Disrupt Yourself Podcast.  Whitney joined host Robert Glazer on the Elevate Podcast to talk about Smart Growth, and how leaders can build fast-improving teams.

Whitney Johnson is the CEO of Disruption Advisors and author of Disrupt Yourself: Master Relentless Change and Speed Up Your Learning Curve. Discussed in the book is how an S-curve can be used to explain how people learn and grow. Whitney uses the example of her own career and how, after experiencing explosive growth and reaching the top of the S-curve, she wanted to fill an emotional need that was not being fulfilled on Wall Street. She explores all about this S-curve, from the element of risk involved in disruption to playing out the process of an S-curve to maximize learning and growth. HIGHLIGHTS Leaving Wall Street to write Disrupt Yourself and apply it to herself The S-curve helps to understand how people learn and grow Experimenting and the vulnerability of being wrong Embrace constraints because the greatest creativity comes from them QUOTES Whitney explains how the S-curve explains how people grow: "I was already thinking that disruption applies to products and services and people, I think there was a natural sort of extension of that, and again I come from the stock market, I was used to thinking about momentum, what makes a stock go up, what makes the stock go down, how do you drive that momentum, there was this notion for me of wait a second, I think this applies to people too. How does this S-curve apply to us?" Whitney on why jumping jobs prevents learning and can make unfit leaders: "There is that cycle that it's important to play that out. And I think, actually, that's where the Peter principle can come in is that if you jump too many times, you're getting all these basically false starts and so you're not learning anything. Then, all of a sudden, and I think this sometimes happens is, this is why people lose their jobs, is because they kept climbing, they haven't learned anything." Whitney on using constraints to your advantage: "As you're trying to climb an S-curve, your constraints, whatever they are and you're going to have them because you always do, is how do you turn those constraints not just into a victim of why me, and not even neutralize them, but how can those constraints be transformative for you?" Find out more about Whitney in the links below: LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/whitneyjohnson/ Website: https://whitneyjohnson.com/ Podcast: https://whitneyjohnson.com/right-risks/ More on Andy: Connect on LinkedIn Get Andy's new book "Sell Without Selling Out" on Amazon Learn more at AndyPaul.com Sponsored by: Revenue.io | Unlock exponential growth with an AI-powered RevOps platform | Revenue.io Scratchpad | The fastest way to update Salesforce, take sales notes, and stay on top of to-dos | Scratchpad.com Blueboard | World's leading experiential rewards & recognition platform | Blueboard.com Explore the Revenue.io Podcast Universe: Sales Enablement Podcast RevOps Podcast Selling with Purpose Podcast

https://jeffheggie.com/2022/06/16/whitney-johnson-smart-growth/ Whitney Johnson is CEO of the tech-enabled talent development company Disruption Advisors, an Inc. 5000 fastest-growing private company in America (2020). One of the top ten business thinkers in the world as named by Thinkers50, Whitney is an expert at smart growth leadership. Whitney has worked at FORTUNE 100 companies, and as an award-winning equity analyst on Wall Street. She co-founded the Disruptive Innovation Fund with Harvard Business School's late Clayton Christensen. She has coached alongside the renowned Marshall Goldsmith, selected by Goldsmith in 2017 as a Top 15 Coach out of a pool of more than 17,000 candidates. Whitney understands how companies work, how investors think, and how the best coaches coach. An award-winning author, Johnson teaches the S Curve of Learning to managers and companies as both a keynote speaker and a frequent lecturer for Harvard Business School's Corporate Learning. She is a LinkedIn Top Voice (2020) with 1.8 million followers. Her course Fundamentals of Entrepreneurship has been viewed more than 1 million times. An innovation and disruption theorist, Whitney is a frequent contributor to Harvard Business Review and MIT Sloan Management Review. Author of the bestselling Build an A Team (a Financial Times Book of the Month) and Disrupt Yourself, fittingly described by Publisher's Weekly as “Savvy . . . often counterintuitive . . . superb.” She hosts the weekly Disrupt Yourself podcast with guests including Brené Brown, Adam Grant, Susan Cain, and General Stanley McChrystal. Whitney was co-founder of the Disruptive Innovation Fund with Clayton Christensen. Her role included fund formation, strategy, and capital raising. They invested and led the $8 million seed round for South Korea's Coupang ecommerce platform, currently valued at $50 billion. Grow Through Disruption Weekly Newsletter: Join Here Disrupt Yourself Podcast: Listen Here   [FREE Masterclass] The Peak Performance System for High Achievers: Click Here High Achievers Accountability >>

Topics Discussed:  On today's installment of the RRH, former Hubspot human and founder of MyCoreOS Jordan Benjamin and I dig into one of the most pervasive mental traps of selling: boredom. And how to beat it. Boredom is a mental trap (3:46) How to beat boredom? (9:05) Resources Mentioned:  https://www.amazon.com/Mindset-Psychology-Carol-S-Dweck/dp/0345472322 (Mindset) by Carol Dweck (6:28) https://www.amazon.com/Sell-Without-Selling-Out-Success/dp/B09RLTW23D/ref=sr_1_1?crid=1BX2J20N5P3O7&keywords=sell+without+selling+out&qid=1653672176&s=books&sprefix=sell+without+selling+out%2Cstripbooks%2C77&sr=1-1 (Sell Without Selling Out) by Andy Paul (7:51) https://www.amazon.com/Disrupt-Yourself-Whitney-Johnson-audiobook/dp/B015TD79JC/ref=sr_1_1?crid=32307F1CJTAKE&keywords=disrupt+yourself&qid=1653672208&s=audible&sprefix=disrupt+yourself%2Caudible%2C69&sr=1-1 (Disrupt Yourself) by Whitney Johnson (11:33) For more Guest: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jordanbenjamin/ (Jordan Benjamin) on LinkedIn https://www.mycoreos.com/ (MyCoreOS) https://www.mycoreos.com/podcast (Peak Performance Selling) podcast For more Amy:  Connect with Amy on https://www.linkedin.com/in/amyhrehovcik/ (LinkedIn) Connect with Amy on https://twitter.com/amy_hrehovcik (Twitter) http://revenuereal.com (Join the Conversation)

Whitney Johnson is CEO of the tech-enabled talent development company Disruption Advisors, an Inc. 5000 fastest-growing private company in America (2020). One of the top ten business thinkers in the world as named by Thinkers50, Whitney is an expert at smart growth leadership. Whitney has worked at FORTUNE 100 companies, and as an award-winning equity analyst on Wall Street. She co-founded the Disruptive Innovation Fund with Harvard Business School's late Clayton Christensen. She has coached alongside the renowned Marshall Goldsmith, selected by Goldsmith in 2017 as a Top 15 Coach out of a pool of more than 17,000 candidates. Whitney understands how companies work, how investors think, and how the best coaches coach.An award-winning author, Johnson teaches the S Curve of Learning to managers and companies as both a keynote speaker and a frequent lecturer for Harvard Business School's Corporate Learning. She is a LinkedIn Top Voice (2020) with 1.8 million followers. Her course Fundamentals of Entrepreneurship has been viewed more than 1 million times.Whitney is a frequent contributor to Harvard Business Review and MIT Sloan Management Review. Author of the bestselling Build an A Team (a Financial Times Book of the Month) and Disrupt Yourself, fittingly described by Publisher's Weekly as “Savvy . . . often counterintuitive . . . superb.” She hosts the weekly Disrupt Yourself podcast with guests including Brené Brown, Adam Grant, Susan Cain, and General Stanley McChrystal.### If you love this podcast please share it with friends, family and co-workers and leave a 5-star review! (If you don't love it, no need to leave a review!  We would also love to hear from you on LinkedIn and invite you to join our online community We Thrive Together where we are creating a safe place to talk about anxiety and mental health at work. Until next week, we hope you can find some peace and calm in a world that often is a sea of anxiety. ###Your hosts, Adrian Gostick and Chester Elton have spent more than 2 decades helping clients around the world engage their employees on strategy, vision and values. They provide solutions for leaders looking to manage change, drive innovation and build high performance cultures and teams. Their work is supported by research with more than a million working adults across the globe.They are authors of multiple award-winning Wall Street Journal and New York Times bestsellers All In, Leading with Gratitude, and Anxiety at Work.  They have been called “fascinating” by Fortune and “creative and refreshing” by The New York Times.  Learn more about their Executive Coaching practice at TheCultureWorks.com. To book Adrian and Chester to keynote, contact christy@thecultureworks.com ### A shout out to our wonderful sponsor, LifeGuides. LifeGuides is a peer-to-peer community that helps people navigate through their day-to-day stressors by providing a place of empathy, listening, wisdom and support with a Guide who has walked in your shoes, experiencing the same challenge as you. We have a special offer for A@W Community from LifeGuides. It's this easy -  Schedule a demo and drop Healthy2021 in the “Any Questions?” box and receive 2 FREE months service.

At 48 years of age, Carine Clark was given a 20 percent chance of surviving ovarian cancer. But Carine wasn't ready to be done—she didn't know it, but she had yet to become one of the first female chief executives of a Utah tech company and would later be named “Utah Business” magazine's CEO of the Year. What Carine did know is that she had two sons that she really wanted to raise after she struggled with infertility for years. So Carine gave cancer everything she had to give—and she's still here. On this week's episode, Carine explains why her cancer diagnosis is worth celebrating with her family each year, and how her faith has played an integral role in her journey. 2:28- Celebrating the Day of Diagnosis 4:43- Everything In Extremes 8:28- Part of the 20 Percent 11:31- “Pre-Worry” and Pre-existence 15:03- Making Promises 22:27- The Master's Plan 27:18- Not Wasting Cancer 29:38- A Sacrifice of Time 35:14- “He Will Never Enable Us To Be Weak” 37:54- Knowing You're Going To Die 42:23- What Does It Mean To Be All In the Gospel of Jesus Christ?  “When things don't go your way, you gotta say thank you.”    [2:18 PM] Morgan Jones For show note links:   Articles about Carine: https://www.deseret.com/2017/4/2/20609588/how-utah-business-leaders-overcame-adversity-on-the-path-to-success Fireside with Carine: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c7mX70u_bkM Carine on Latter-day Saint MBA podcast: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/carine-strom-clark/id1564093407?i=1000519499552 Carine on Whitney Johnson's Disrupt Yourself podcast: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/carine-clark-tougher-than-we-know/id1156483471?i=1000416143532 https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/all-in/id1439975046?i=1000504504921   See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

On today's episode of the Entrepreneur Evolution Podcast, we are joined by Whitney Johnson, CEO of the tech-enabled talent development company Disruption Advisors, an Inc. 5000 2020 honoree, one of the fastest-growing private companies in America. Thinkers50 ranked her one of the top ten management thinkers in the world in 2021, and in 2020 she was a Top Voice on LinkedIn, where she has 1.8 million followers. Whitney is the Wall Street Journal, USA Today and Amazon bestselling author of several books, including Disrupt Yourself and Build an A Team, and a frequent lecturer for Harvard Business Publishing's Corporate Learning division. A former award-winning Wall Street equity analyst, Whitney is a highly sought-after executive advisor and coach. She also hosts the popular weekly podcast Disrupt Yourself. To learn more about Whitney Johnson, visit whitneyjohnson.com. You can also reach her at wj@whitneyjohnson.com. Buy “Smart Growth: How to Grow Your People to Grow Your Company” here: https://www.amazon.com/Smart-Growth-Grow-People-Company-ebook/dp/B08TCJZ7ST We would love to hear from you, and it would be awesome if you left us a 5-star review. Your feedback means the world to us, and we will be sure to send you a special thank you for your kind words. Don't forget to hit “subscribe” to automatically be notified when guest interviews and Express Tips drop every Tuesday and Friday. Interested in joining our monthly entrepreneur membership? Email Annette directly at yourock@ievolveconsulting.com to learn more. Ready to invest in yourself? Book your free session with Annette HERE. Keep evolving, entrepreneur. We are SO proud of you! --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/annette-walter/support

If you're interested in growing in your leadership practice and being inspired to think differently and unlock greater personal potential, we want to give you a gift. Just click the link below and tell us where to send you 12 Ideas That Will Make You A Better Leader In 2022. Whitney Johnson is CEO of the tech-enabled talent development company Disruption Advisors, an Inc. 5000 fastest-growing private company in America (2020). One of the top ten business thinkers in the world as named by Thinkers50, Whitney is an expert at smart growth leadership. Whitney has worked at FORTUNE 100 companies, and as an award-winning equity analyst on Wall Street. She co-founded the Disruptive Innovation Fund with Harvard Business School's late Clayton Christensen. She has coached alongside the renowned Marshall Goldsmith, selected by Goldsmith in 2017 as a Top 15 Coach out of a pool of more than 17,000 candidates. Whitney understands how companies work, how investors think, and how the best coaches coach. An award-winning author, Johnson teaches the S Curve of Learning to managers and companies as both a keynote speaker and a frequent lecturer for Harvard Business School's Corporate Learning. She is a LinkedIn Top Voice (2020) with 1.8 million followers. Her course Fundamentals of Entrepreneurship has been viewed more than 1 million times. An innovation and disruption theorist, Whitney is a frequent contributor to Harvard Business Review and MIT Sloan Management Review. Author of the bestselling Build an A Team (a Financial Times Book of the Month), Disrupt Yourself (fittingly described by Publisher's Weekly as “Savvy . . . often counterintuitive . . . superb”), and Smart Growth. She hosts the weekly Disrupt Yourself podcast with guests including Brené Brown, Adam Grant, Susan Cain, and General Stanley McChrystal. Whitney was co-founder of the Disruptive Innovation Fund with Clayton Christensen. Her role included fund formation, strategy, and capital raising. They invested and led the $8 million seed round for South Korea's Coupang ecommerce platform, currently valued at $50 billion.

Whitney Johnson: Smart Growth Whitney Johnson is CEO of the tech-enabled talent development company Disruption Advisors, an Inc. 5000 fastest-growing private company in America. As one of the top ten business thinkers in the world as named by Thinkers50, Whitney is an expert at smart growth leadership. She has worked at FORTUNE 100 companies, and as an award-winning equity analyst on Wall Street. Whitney co-founded the Disruptive Innovation Fund with the late Clayton Christensen. She has coached alongside Marshall Goldsmith, selected by him in 2017 as a Top 15 Coach out of a pool of more than 17,000 candidates. She is the author of Disrupt Yourself and the host of the podcast of the same name. She is also the author of Smart Growth: How to Grow Your People to Grow Your Company*. In this conversation, Whitney and I explore a big reality of growth; it's often slow at the start. We discuss three practical steps that leaders can take for both themselves and others to stay engaging during the early stages of growth. Key Points Auditing some of your roles, secrets, beliefs, values, and boundaries will help you move forward along the growth path. Listen to the stories that others tell and help them link past experiences with what's important today. Images are a critical entry point to growth. Utilize them in addition to the new behavior itself to begin to frame your thinking and identity. Circle back after receiving feedback and show others what you've learned from it and how it's changed your behavior. That motivates them to stay invested. Use “I am” statements that have a noun rather than a verb. Instead of “I run,” consider saying, “I am a runner.” Resources Mentioned Smart Growth: How to Grow Your People to Grow Your Company* by Whitney Johnson Interview Notes Download my interview notes in PDF format (free membership required). Related Episodes How to Become the Person You Want to Be, with James Clear (episode 376) How to Motivate Leaders, with John Maxwell (episode 452) How to Win the Long Game When the Short-Term Seems Bleak, with Dorie Clark (episode 550) Discover More Activate your free membership for full access to the entire library of interviews since 2011, searchable by topic.

One of the things we discuss on this show often is what the future will look like. Another key theme we keep coming back to is how individuals and companies can increase their impact so they can build the future they're looking to create.To that end, there was a book that came out right at the beginning of the year you might've missed, and I sure hope you didn't. The book is SMART GROWTH: How to Grow Your People to Grow Your Company, and it's by Whitney Johnson, who's CEO of Disruption Advisors, #8 on the Thinkers50 list of leading business thinkers in the world, and host of the popular Disrupt Yourself podcast. I talk to her about the concept of Smart Growth, how individuals and companies take stock of where they are now in order to help figure out where they ought to go next, how the Great Resignation is tied into the ideas she discusses in her book, and much more. As always, we welcome your feedback. Please make sure to subscribe, rate, and review on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Stitcher, and Google Play - and make sure to follow us on Facebook and LinkedIn!

In this episode hear Whitney Johnson explain the S Curve of Learning from her latest book, Smart Growth: How to Grow Your People to Grow Your Company. She describes the three phases in the curve as the Launch Point, the Sweet Spot, and Mastery and helps you understand where people are on the learning journey to develop their potential. For more information about Whitney Johnson visit www.whitneyjohnson.com/newsletter or listen to her Disrupt Yourself podcast.

Welcome to episode #821 of Six Pixels of Separation. Here it is: Six Pixels of Separation - Episode #821 - Host: Mitch Joel. Growth is the goal. Helping people develop their potential - enabling them to articulate and become the self they want to be, are capable of being, and that best serves them and others in the short and long term — is what we, as individuals and leaders, strive toward. But how do we grow? This is the question that Whitney Johnson's new book, Smart Growth - How To Grow Your People To Grow Your Company answers. Whitney is CEO of the tech-enabled talent development company Disruption Advisors. Along with being one of the most fascinating people that I know, she is one of the top ten business thinkers in the world as named by Thinkers50, Whitney is an expert at smart growth leadership. Whitney has worked at Fortune 100 companies, and as an award-winning equity analyst on Wall Street. She co-founded the Disruptive Innovation Fund with Harvard Business School's late Clayton Christensen. She has coached alongside the renowned Marshall Goldsmith, selected by Goldsmith in 2017 as a Top 15 Coach out of a pool of more than 17,000 candidates. Whitney understands how companies work, how investors think, and how the best coaches coach. An award-winning author, Whitney teaches the S Curve of Learning to managers and companies as both a keynote speaker and a frequent lecturer for Harvard Business School's Corporate Learning. An innovation and disruption theorist, Whitney is also the author of the bestselling, Build an A Team and Disrupt Yourself. She also hosts the weekly, Disrupt Yourself podcast. Enjoy the conversation... Running time: 54:21. Hello from beautiful Montreal. Subscribe over at Apple Podcasts. Please visit and leave comments on the blog - Six Pixels of Separation. Feel free to connect to me directly on Facebook here: Mitch Joel on Facebook. or you can connect on LinkedIn. ...or on Twitter. Here is my conversation with Whitney Johnson. Smart Growth - How To Grow Your People To Grow Your Company. Disrupt Yourself. Build an A Team. Disruption Advisors. Disrupt Yourself podcast. Follow Whitney on LinkedIn. Follow Whitney on Twitter. This week's music: David Usher 'St. Lawrence River'.

March is Women's History Month and we will be featuring some outstanding female FOMO Sapiens on the podcast all month long for a special break between seasons.  Award-winning author, speaker, and host of the popular “Disrupt Yourself” podcast Whitney Johnson joins in a discussion about decision making, mastering FOMO, and getting back to your default setting- growth. Whitney talks about the neuroscience behind growth, how the brain processes its trajectory, and how mastering FOMO and FOBO will help define and master growth models. Explaining her S-Curve theory on growth, Whitney talks about how retraining your brain allows you to turn challenges into opportunities by simply reframing your perspective based on a redefined, personalized growth process. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Whitney Johnson joins the show to discuss her new book "Smart Growth: How to Grow Your People to Grow Your Company". Join us to dive deep into the S-Curve of Learning! Whitney is an innovation and disruption theorist and former award-winning Wall Street stock analyst. She is the author of the bestselling Build an A Team, the critically-acclaimed Disrupt Yourself, and is a frequent contributor to Harvard Business Review and MIT Sloan Management Review.   Guest: Whitney Johnson linkedin.com/in/whitneyjohnson   https://whitneyjohnson.com/books/     Hosts: Mike Thul - linkedin.com/in/thulmichael Jessie Novey - linkedin.com/in/jessienovey   INTERESTED IN SPONSORSHIP? Please email tcshrmpodcast@gmail.com Twin Cities Society For Human Resources: Recognized as one of the nation's largest SHRM (Society for Human Resource Management) chapters, TCSHRM is based in the Twin Cities of Minneapolis and St. Paul, Minnesota. With an ongoing calendar of events, we are an active SHRM group always looking to promote, influence, and educate our members through multiple channels. Join Us! Become a TCSHRM Member. https://www.tcshrm.org/ Thank you for listening, and if you enjoy this podcast please consider leaving a review as it helps us reach more listeners.    © MMXX TCSHRM. All Rights Reserved. For Personal Use Only.  

In today's episode of Partnering Leadership, Mahan speaks with Whitney Johnson. Whitney is the CEO of Disruption Advisors, a tech-enabled talent development company. She also co-founded Disruptive Innovation Fund with Clayton Christensen,  is the host of the Disrupt Yourself podcast, and is the author of the book Smart Growth: How To Grow Your People To Grow Your Company. Whitney Johnson talked about the S-curve of personal, leadership, and organizational growth. Whitney also discussed creating a corporate culture that encourages continuous learning and development and leaders pursuing new S-curves of growth.Highlights:-      Why disruption is about more than products and services-      The three phases of the S-curve of growth-      Whitney Johnson on the neuroscience behind the S-curve-      How leaders can encourage growth in their organizations-      How to use S-curve as a recruiting and retention tool-      Whitney Johnson on the CEO mindset needed for growth-      How to deal with underperforming team members-      The importance of shadow values and how to use them in guiding your growthMentioned:-      Clayton Christensen, Harvard Business School professor, author, and co-founded Disruptive Innovation Fund-      Everette Rogers, originated the diffusion of innovations theory-      Juan Carlos Mendez-Garcia, co-author of Throw Your Life A Curve-      Patrick Pichette, former CFO of Google-      Sumeet Shetty, Development Manager at SAP-      Innovator's Dilemma by Clayton Christensen-      Disrupt Yourself by Whitney Johnson-      Dare, Deam, Do: Remarkable Things Happen When You Dare To Dream by Whitney Johnson-      Build an A-Team by Whitney Johnson-      The Burnout Epidemic by Jennifer Moss-      How Will You Measure Your Life by Clayton ChristensenConnect with Whitney Johnson:Smart Growth Book WebsiteDisrupt Yourself PodcastWhitney Johnson WebsiteWhitney Johnson TwitterWhitney Johnson InstagramWhitney Johnson LinkedInConnect with Mahan Tavakoli:MahanTavakoli.comMahan Tavakoli on LinkedInMore information and resources available at the Partnering Leadership Podcast website: PartneringLeadership.com

#95 On this day Whitney Johnson informs Richie before the podcast begins that Bob Proctor passed. Whitney speaks to his memory, impact and experiences with him. Richie and Whitney also speak to the memory of Clayton Christensen and lessons Clayton shared with Whitney in their work together around disruptive innovation. Whitney discusses her new book Smart Growth and how the S Curve model helps individuals and organizations create positive transformations. In Smart Growth and on this podcast, "Whitney Johnson dives more deeply than ever into the S curve of growth and learning...The growth and learning journey comes in three phases: the Launch Point, the Sweet Spot, and the High End." This is a unique and special episode.   Whitney Johnson is the CEO of Disruption Advisors, a tech-enabled talent development company, and an expert on smart growth leadership: growing your people to grow your company. Thinkers50 ranked her among the top ten management thinkers in the world in 2021, and in 2020 she was a Top Voice on LinkedIn, where she has 1.8 million followers. Johnson is an award-winning author, world-class keynote speaker, frequent lecturer for Harvard Business Publishing's Corporate Learning division, and an award-winning executive coach and adviser to CEOs. She is the author of several bestselling books, including Disrupt Yourself and Build an A-Team, and hosts the weekly Disrupt Yourself podcast.   Go to https://whitneyjohnson.com/ to learn more.   To create your own "on-mission" experience in life, leadership, coaching, entrepreneurship and small business, go to: www.richienorton.com/76daychallenge   Want to continue the conversation? Join us!   RICHIE NORTON SHOW COMMUNITY: https://www.facebook.com/groups/richiepodcast   RICHIE NORTON SHOW NOTES AND RESOURCES: http://www.richienorton.com/   RICHIE NORTON SOCIAL:   INSTAGRAM: https://www.instagram.com/richie_norton LINKEDIN: http://www.linkedin.com/in/richardnorton FB: https://www.facebook.com/richienorton TWITTER: http://www.twitter.com/richienorton

Whitney Johnson shares key science behind learning and growth so you can continue growing your skills smartly over the long haul. — YOU'LL LEARN — 1) The 3 phases of growth–and how to master them 2) How to get your brain to learn faster 3) The tremendous power of ridiculously small goals Subscribe or visit AwesomeAtYourJob.com/ep733 for clickable versions of the links below. — ABOUT WHITNEY — Whitney Johnson is CEO of the tech-enabled talent development company Disruption Advisors, an Inc. 5000 fastest-growing private company in America and one of the 50 leading business thinkers in the world as named by Thinkers50. She is an award-winning author, a regular keynote speaker, and a frequent lecturer for Harvard Business School's Corporate Learning. A frequent contributor to Harvard Business Review and MIT Sloan Management Review, Johnson is author of several top-selling books including Disrupt Yourself and Build an A Team. Her latest book is Smart Growth: How to Grow Your People to Grow Your Company. She is also the host of the popular Disrupt Yourself podcast, with guests including Brené Brown, Simon Sinek, Susan Cain, and General Stanley McChrystal. • Book: Smart Growth: How to Grow Your People to Grow Your Company • Book website: SmartGrowthBook.com • Podcast: Disrupt Yourself • Tool: S Curve Insight Platform — RESOURCES MENTIONED IN THE SHOW — • Book: Atomic Habits: An Easy & Proven Way to Build Good Habits & Break Bad Ones by James Clear • Book: Backable: The Surprising Truth Behind What Makes People Take a Chance on You by Suneel Gupta and Carlye Adler • Book: Once Upon a Wardrobe by Patti Callahan • Book: The Innovator's Dilemma: The Revolutionary Book That Will Change the Way You Do Business by Clayton Christensen • E-commerce: Rent the Runway • Study: The New Science of Wise Psychological Interventions by Gregory Walton • Tool: WHOOP • YouTube: Anxiety Skills – Therapy in a Nutshell with Emma McAdam • Past episode: 317: How to Form Habits the Smart Way with BJ Fogg, PhD • Past episode: 665: How to Make Lasting Change – According to Science – with Katy Milkman • Past episode: 708: The 7 Steps to Winning Others' Support with Suneel Gupta See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

Whitney Johnson is considered one of the top ten business thinkers in the world as named by Thinkers50, Whitney is an expert at smart growth leadership. Whitney has worked at FORTUNE 100 companies, and as an award-winning equity analyst on Wall Street. She co-founded the Disruptive Innovation Fund with Harvard Business School's late Clayton Christensen. She has coached alongside the renowned Marshall Goldsmith, selected by Goldsmith in 2017 as a Top 15 Coach out of a pool of more than 17,000 candidates. Whitney understands how companies work, how investors think, and how the best coaches coach.An award-winning author, Johnson teaches the S Curve of Learning to managers and companies as both a keynote speaker and a frequent lecturer for Harvard Business School's Corporate Learning. She is a LinkedIn Top Voice (2020) with 1.8 million followers. Her course Fundamentals of Entrepreneurship has been viewed more than 1 million times.An innovation and disruption theorist, Whitney is a frequent contributor to Harvard Business Review and MIT Sloan Management Review. Author of the bestselling Build an A Team (a Financial Times Book of the Month) and Disrupt Yourself, fittingly described by Publisher's Weekly as “Savvy . . . often counterintuitive . . . superb.” She hosts the weekly Disrupt Yourself podcast with guests including Brené Brown, Adam Grant, Susan Cain, and General Stanley McChrystal. Disrupt Yourself Podcast: https://whitneyjohnson.com/disrupt-yourself-podcast/Learn more about her book Disrupt Yourself and her other books including her upcoming book Smart Growth: https://whitneyjohnson.com/books/Highlights:00:00 - Introduction1:04 - Clayton Christensen Impact6:02 - Origin of the book Disrupt Yourself10:47 - Personal disruption applies to all strong performers15:04 - The S-Curve21:37 - The 7 variables along the S-Curve & the two most important26:02 - Give failure its due34:42 - What is a practical action step to disrupt yourself?36:39 - What is success and how can I be successful? ***If you like this podcast and the books we discuss it would mean a lot if you left both a positive rating and review ;)Follow on:YouTubeInstagramFacebook

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This is a rebroadcast. The episode originally ran in February 2018. Whitney Johnson started as a secretary on Wall Street while taking business classes at night. She worked her way up to an award-winning equity analyst and later co-founded an investment firm with the late Clayton Christensen, She is the bestselling and critically acclaimed author of Build an “A” Team, and Disrupt Yourself, and hosts the weekly Disrupt Yourself podcast. Whitney grew up in San Jose, California and served a Church mission in Uruguay. She attended Brigham Young University, where she received a B.A. in music and met her husband. They have two children (a son and a daughter), and live in Lexington, Virginia. Highlights 10:35 In her twenties, Whitney asked herself, “Do I believe?” While she took a step back, her husband fasted for her on and off for two years. 13:13 While serving in her current calling she realized, "I don't need to save them just love them." 18:20 Early in her career she started a blog to help her discover what her dreams were. 19:30 Every man and women needs to learn how to be a ship and a harbor. 21:00 Her first book came out in 2012, Dare Dream Do: Remarkable Things Happen When You Dare To Dream 22:30 She later wrote the book Disrupt Yourself: Putting The Power Of Disruptive Innovation To Work 25:10 A disruptor is a silly thing that takes over the world. When you disrupt yourself you take over your world. 26:10 Disrupting is managing change. 28:00 How do you disrupt yourself or your ward? Seven Levers of Change 28:35 #1 Take the right kinds of risk 29:00 Serve the Lord the way you need to using your talents. 32:00 Ask yourself what you want to accomplish in this calling. 32:40 #2 Play to your distinctive strengths in your calling. 34:40 What am I bringing to the table in regards to my calling? 36:25 Think about the things that make you feel strong. 36:45 Think about what exacerbates you. That is one of your strengths. 37:05 What compliments do you get all the time? That is your super power. 37:20 Read your patriarchal blessing. Look for your spiritual gifts while reading it. 38:30 Are you using your strengths and your superpowers deliberately in your calling? 38:50 #3 Embrace Constraints 39:10 How do we turn those constraints into a tool of creation? 40:20 Elders Bednar's 2017 General Conference address Bear Up Their Burdens With Ease is a great example of how our load is what gets them out. 42:05 Elder Carmack's address about the Powers of the Priesthood is a great example to use your Priesthood Power at its fullest. 42:20 Be prayerful and listen to the Lord. 44:00 Communicate and be open about your constraints with your Bishop. 45:20 Extend callings and invite them to pray about it first. 45:56 #4 Battle Entitlement 47:00 The Church helps battle entitlement by the way it is organized, and callings change. 48:45 #5 Give Failure its Due 48:50 Reframe your failures. 49:30 We believe we can change, but we don't always act like we believe it. 50:10 Be open about the things that are hard for us. 51:45 Ask yourself, “how can I make meaning of this?” 51:40 Shame limits disruption, not failure. 53:51 #6 Step Back in Order to Grow 54:20 In church we step back to grow as we get new callings. 55:03 #7 Be Driven By Discovery 55:50 With each new discovery, alter your plan. 56:30 We are driven by discovery in our church when new information is shared in callings. 57:00 Deal with ambiguity. Work with the unknown. Alter your plan. 57:50 The sin of certainty: we battle entitlement when we feel like we have it all figured out, when we feel like we have no questions, but the questions are what we need to guide us to discovery. 58:55 Those seven principles move you along the learning curve. 60:00 Heavenly Father helps us jump to a new learning curve. 60:00 Studying the learning Living Christ helps to remind us tha...