In a candid interview with People Matters, Whitney Johnson, thinker, speaker, author, adviser and an expert on disruptive innovation and personal disruption talks about the nuances of personal disruption, learning curves, hiring for potential than proficiency, and treating human resources as raw materials than finished products.
“Learning is not linear, but exponential: there is a cumulative and compounding effect. If you do something disruptive today, then the probability that you can be disruptive tomorrow increases. Momentum creates momentum.”
Recognized as one of the 50 leading business thinkers in the world (Thinkers50), Whitney Johnson is an expert on disruptive innovation and personal disruption. She is known for developing her proprietary framework and diagnostics after having co-founded the Disruptive Innovation Fund with Harvard Business School’s Clayton Christensen. This framework is complemented by a deep understanding of how executives create and destroy value and is codified in her critically acclaimed book Disrupt Yourself: Putting the Power of Disruptive Innovation to Work and in her latest book Build an “A” Team: Play To Their Strengths and Lead Them Up the Learning Curve.
In addition to being a speaker, author and an advisor, Whitney is one of Marshall Goldsmith's original cohorts of 25 for the #100 Coaches Project, and is a coach for Harvard Business School's Executive Education program.
You have written and spoken extensively on personal disruption. Tell us what it means in today’s business context.
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