Episode description
One of the ten leading business thinkers in the world as named by Thinkers50 – an expert at helping leaders grow their people to grow their organization.
Whitney is an award-winning author, world-class keynote speaker, frequent lecturer for Harvard Business School's Corporate Learning, and an executive coach and advisors to CEOs. Host of "Disrupt Yourself" podcast at whitneyjohnson.com
Co-founded the Disruptive Innovation Fund with Harvard Business School’s late Clayton Christensen and a LinkedIn Top Voice (2020) with 1.8 million followers.
Author of 4 books:
Smart Growth
How to Grow Your People to Grow Your Company.
Disrupt Yourself:™
Master Relentless Change and Speed Up Your Learning Curve
Build an A-Team:
Play to Their Strengths and Lead Them Up the Learning Curve
Dare, Dream, Do:
Remarkable Things Happen When You Dare to Dream
Ross and Whitney discuss expediency, Wall Street, investment banking, excitement, motivation, achievement, reframing fears, helping others grow, smart growth, people, personal disruption and leaving work. The pair also discuss loss of identity, Ben Hardy, measuring growth, connections to work, advancing ourselves, slowing down, resting, unplugging from technology, creative expression, theory, spirituality and being unapologetic.
Timecodes:
- 01:15 Whitney's background in music
- 02:49 Whitney's career path after music
- 05:06 Drivers for studying
- 07:09 Growth and a thirst for learning
- 11:23 Disruptive Innovation
- 13:22 Disrupting individuals
- 16:26 Letting things go and identity shifts
- 21:34 Road to growth
- 25:18 Exploring and transforming individuals
- 28:49 Overwhelm and comfort
- 33:17 Rest and relaxation
- 34:24 HRV - Heart Rate Variable
- 39:36 Book writing and development
- 43:47 Whitney's Most impactful time at Clayton
- 46:41 The last time Whitney did something for the first time
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