Book #11 - Disrupt Yourself by Whitney Johnson

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 - Introduction
1:04 - Clayton Christensen Impact
6:02 - Origin of the book Disrupt Yourself
10:47 - Personal disruption applies to all strong performers
15:04 - The S-Curve
21:37 - The 7 variables along the S-Curve & the two most important
26:02 - Give failure its due
34:42 - What is a practical action step to disrupt yourself?
36:39 - What is success and how can I be successful?

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