Disrupt Yourself

Master Relentless Change and Speed Up Your Learning Curve

By: Whitney Johnson

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Hardcover | 12 November 2019

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180 Pages

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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.

About the Author

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.

Industry 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

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