5 episodes
Disrupt Yourself Live Whitney Johnson
-
- Business
Change is necessary, even desirable, but when it happens so fast, it feels like it is happening to you, not for you. That’s scary. But it shouldn’t need to feel this way.
What Whitney Johnson has learned, having been an analyst on Wall Street, and co-founding an investment firm with Harvard’s Clayton Christensen, is that the framework of disruptive innovation, that we apply to companies, is, at a high level, a framework for managing change, beginning with the individual.
She’s spent the last five years researching and codifying a framework of personal disruption, so that whether you are scaling a business, trying to get your people to be more innovative, or just trying to manage your career you have a structure for doing this.
Tune in to Disrupt Yourself Live with Whitney Johnson on VoiceAmerica Business for stories from the front lines and practical tips on how to not only cope with but harness and ride the waves of change.
-
Bootstrapping Your Way to Success
Susan Petersen started making baby moccasins in 2009 after becoming frustrated by the lack of well-designed baby shoes. Using her second child, Gus, as a mocc-tester, and a bag of scrap leather she picked up at a yard sale, she began experimenting.
-
Constraints as Tools of Creation
Constraints are a tool of creation and innovation and successful disruptors embrace constraint as an ally, rather than battling limitation as an enemy. Nobody needs to be creative more than someone who plies their trade in the arts.
-
Leadership and The Importance Of Playing To Your Strengths
True leadership in disruption involves knowing about and playing to your distinctive strengths. My guest this week is leadership expert Sanyin Siang.
-
Play Where Others Aren't Playing - Embrace Market Risk
One of the hallmarks of successful disruptors is that they embrace the risk—and opportunity—of playing where others don’t. While being ahead of the game in this manner doesn’t always pay off, when it does it pays off in a big way.
-
Thriving Through Change With the Disrupt Yourself Framework
Change is necessary. Even desirable. But sometimes it happens so fast it feels like it’s happening to you, not for you. Which can make it feel scary, and even lonely.