How to Grow Your Business Into a Big Business

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whitney: Plot out where you are right now, an plot out where people on your team are. If you're in the sweet spot, stay focused. It's not if you're feeling a sense of crankiness or eni it's not the job, it's not even the people you work for. Your brain needs a new challen. And really push that to the extreme, like just looking at a thing, as opposed to doing a few minutes of a thing,. shrink it so so small when you're at that phase of the s curve.

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

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— 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