SHOW INTRODUCTION:
Today I’ll be talking with Whitney Johnson, named One of the World’s 50 Most Influential Management Thinkers by Thinkers50, author of “Build an A-Team”, host of the Disrupt Yourself podcast, and the author of a brilliant must-read for anyone who wants to leap ahead, “Disrupt Yourself”
And that’s just what I want to talk with her about today, about how to skip the ladder, leap ahead, and take your life and ideas to a new level. Â
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Whitney Johnson, named one of the world’s fifty most influential management thinkers by Thinkers50, is CEO and founder of WLJ Advisors. Leveraging her proprietary S-Curve of Learning and Personal Disruption frameworks, along with WLJ Advisors’ expertise in coaching, teaching, and consulting, she helps high-growth companies of all sizes create innovative work ecosystems in which individuals are encouraged to learn, experiment, and change. Johnson is the author of the award-winning book Build an A-Team and host of the weekly Disrupt Yourself podcast. She is cofounder of the Disruptive Innovation Fund with Clayton Christensen, and she is a former award-winning Wall Street stock analyst and coach for Harvard Business School’s Executive Education programs.
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Key Points Discussed:Â
- What does it mean to be a disruptor and to disrupt yourself (03:42)
- How in the world did you go from secretary to a retail sales broker and then end up catapulting your existence by studying disruptors (06:25)
- What does “Amateurs Compete, Professionals Create” mean? (12:38)
- The evolution of trucks and the manufacturing limits that Elon Musk faced with the Tesla Truck to create instead of compete (15:57)
- How we are biologically wired to be disruptors and how disruptors living in the creative process makes a huge biological difference (17:07)
- The top seven secrets to becoming a disruptor and riding the wave for all it’s worth (20:40)
- Starting something new by figuring out the jobs to do and positioning oneself to play where no one is playing (22:34)
- Playing to our distinctive strengths like the Koala (23:58)
- Is there something that made you peculiar when you were young and could it be your superpower? (27:39)
- How constraints set us free and mould us to become successful (32:57)
- The innovation killer, what it means, and how to battle it (36:35)
- Stepping back in order to grow and how failing is just being on the wrong S curve (41:35)
- Billy Beane and moneyball: A fascinating story about constraints and taking a step back to grow (45:06)
- Giving failure its due meaning and ditching shame to be truly disruptive (49:00)
- What are Toyota’s five whys and how can they help us overcome the fear that keeps us from disrupting? (52:13)
- The puke to excitement ratio and how it’s a good sign (57:43)
- What does it mean to follow your north star and we do we ever get bad with disruption? (58:39)
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