Disrupt Yourself, With a New Introduction: Master Relentless Change and Speed Up Your Learning Curve
(Hardback)
Publishing Details
Disrupt Yourself, With a New Introduction: Master Relentless Change and Speed Up Your Learning Curve
By (Author) Whitney Johnson
Harvard Business Review Press
Harvard Business Review Press
1st December 2019
United States
Classifications
General
Non Fiction
650.1
Physical Properties
Hardback
180
Width 139mm, Height 215mm
Description
Every career, and every life, includes necessary pivots brought on by unexpected disruptions to our best-laid plans. Using the learning curve model, we can learn to embrace these pivots and use them to advance along our personal S-curve and grow in our careers and lives.
The same learning curve model that helps you build a team can be used to build yourself into the person you want to be. In Disrupt Yourself, Johnson shows us what this curve looks like and how to ride it. She lays out seven strategies for successfully riding the wave of personal disruption:
- Take the right risks
- Lay to your distinctive strengths
- Embrace constraints
- Battle entitlement
- Step back to grow
- Give failure its due
- Be discovery driven
Each chapter takes each strategy in turn, guiding the reader through understanding of the strategy and then helping the reader to apply it effectively.
Reviews
Praise for Disrupt Yourself:
"Savvy . . . often counterintuitive . . . superb." -- Publishers Weekly"Whitney Johnson has applied 'disruption' to understand why some individuals succeed in remarkable ways. Enjoyed this book!" -- Clayton M. Christensen, Kim B. Clark Professor of Business Administration, Harvard Business School; New York Times bestselling author, The Innovator's Dilemma
"Applying the lessons of disruptive innovation to personal growth, Johnson shows us how to dramatically increase our productivity, creativity, and happiness." -- Susan Cain, New York Times bestselling author, Quiet
"I've seldom, if ever, read a better-written career development book. Compelling, clear as a bell, research-based, and actionable." -- Tom Peters, bestselling author, In Search of Excellence
"Whitney Johnson not only explains the why and how, but cheers us on along the way to greater meaning, learning, and innovation." -- Adam Grant, Saul P. Steinberg Professor of Management, The Wharton School; New York Times bestselling author, Give and Take
"If you've gone through your career thinking that it's smarter and safer to 'stick with what you know,' get ready to have Whitney Johnson change your mind." -- Liz Wiseman, bestselling author, Multipliers and Rookie Smarts
"Reads like a handbook for innovation. The dramatic 'jumps' that Johnson encourages us to take truly form the basis of creativity and success." -- Steve Wozniak, cofounder, Apple; Chief Scientist, Primary Data
Author Bio
Whitney Johnson is the CEO of Disruption Advisors, a tech-enabled talent development company, and an expert on smart growth leadership: growing your people to grow your company. Thinkers50 ranked her among the top ten management thinkers in the world in 2021, and in 2020 she was a Top Voice on LinkedIn, where she has 1.8 million followers. Johnson is an award-winning author, world-class keynote speaker, frequent lecturer for Harvard Business Publishing's Corporate Learning division, and an award-winning executive coach and adviser to CEOs. She is the author of several bestselling books, including Disrupt Yourself and Build an A-Team, and hosts the weekly Disrupt Yourself podcast. You can reach her at wj@whitneyjohnson.com.
