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Thinkers50 Management Thinker of 2015 Whitney Johnson wants you to consider this simple, yet powerful, idea: disruptive companies and ideas upend markets by doing something truly different—they see a need, an empty space waiting to be filled, and they dare to create something for which a market may not yet exist.As president and cofounder of Rose Park Advisors’ Disruptive Innovation Fund with Clayton Christensen, Johnson used the theory of disruptive innovation to invest in publicly traded stocks and private early-stage companies. In Disrupt Yourself, she helps you understand how the frameworks of disruptive innovation can apply to your particular path, whether you are:a self-starter ready to make a disruptive pivot in your businessa high-potential individual charting your career trajectorya manager looking to instill innovative thinking amongst your teama leader facing industry changes that make for an uncertain futureWe are living in an era of accelerating disruption; no one is immune. Johnson makes the compelling case that managing the S-curve waves of learning and mastery is a requisite skill for the future. If you want to be successful in unexpected ways, follow your own disruptive path. Dare to innovate. Do something astonishing. Disrupt yourself.
Disrupt Yourself: Putting the Power of Disruptive Innovation to Work, by Whitney Johnson - Amazon Sales Rank: #44816 in Books
- Published on: 2015-10-06
- Released on: 2015-10-06
- Original language: English
- Number of items: 1
- Dimensions: 8.10" h x .90" w x 5.10" l, .0 pounds
- Binding: Hardcover
- 208 pages
Disrupt Yourself: Putting the Power of Disruptive Innovation to Work, by Whitney Johnson Review “Johnson, a Merrill Lynch equity analyst turned entrepreneur, shows how and why to upend a career in this practical, concise work. Savvy and often counterintuitive, this superb book offers the tools, mind-set guidance, and rationale for avoiding complacency and embracing a new career path.” – Publishers Weekly“Playing it safe is not safe in today’s fast-paced marketplace. Disrupt Yourself is a must-read for anyone looking to stand out from the crowd and pursue innovation in our highly uncertain business climate.” – Eric Ries, bestselling author of The Lean Startup“I have used the word ‘disruption’ to understand how some companies blossom while other wither. Whitney has applied the word in a different context – to understand why some individuals succeed in remarkable ways. Enjoyed this book!” – Clayton M. Christensen, Harvard Business School, NYT best-selling author of The Innovator’s Dilemma“Too often we're told that to be successful in leadership or business, we must fit a certain mold. Whitney Johnson knows better. Applying the lessons of disruptive innovation to personal growth, she shows us how to pursue roles suited to our own strengths, to follow our own unique way of thinking and doing—and to dramatically increase our productivity, creativity, and happiness.” – Susan Cain, NYT best-selling author of Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can’t Stop Talking“Wow! Disrupt Yourself wins the "plain English" award--which is to say I've seldom if ever read a better written business/career development book. The advice is compelling, clear-as-bell, research-based, and actionable. And it'll work as well for a forty-something as a twenty-something.” –Tom Peters, bestselling author, In Search of Excellence“Disrupt Yourself reads like a handbook for innovation: it shows the incredible value of recognizing what you are good at and finding unexpected ways to apply those strengths to the marketplace. The dramatic ‘jumps’ that Johnson encourages us to take truly form the basis of creativity and success.” – Steve Wozniak, co-founder, Apple, Inc. and Chief Scientist, Primary Data“A motivating, compelling case for shifting gears right when we’ve reached our peaks. Whitney Johnson not only explains the why and how, but cheers us on along the way to greater meaning, learning, and innovation.” – Adam Grant, Wharton professor and NYT best-selling author of Give and Take“If you have gone through your career thinking that it is smarter and safer to “stick with what you know,” get ready to have Whitney Johnson change your mind. Often what we already know can get in the way of what we don’t know. Disrupt Yourself will inspire you to make the jump onto new learning curves, innovate, and stay at the top of your game.” – Liz Wiseman, best-selling author of Multipliers and Rookie Smarts“You already know that to have the career—and life—you always wanted, you'll need to be innovative, take risks, and spot and seize opportunities. Luckily, Whitney Johnson knows exactly how disruptive innovation gets done, and her brilliant new book is the how-to guide you've been waiting for." – Dr. Heidi Grant Halvorson, Columbia Business School, best-selling author of Nine Things Successful People Do Differently and No One Understands You and What to Do About It“Whitney Johnson’s Disrupt Yourself provides clear guidance that will help you both boost your career and become a driving force in market evolution. Her innovative approach proves that staying true to your own strengths can be groundbreaking, and often take you further than following established paths. I highly recommend this book.” – Michelle McKenna-Doyle, Senior VP, CIO, National Football League“Leaders at all levels are often reminded that continuous learning and personal growth are key to successful careers and meaningful lives. In Disrupt Yourself, Whitney Johnson shows how to pursue them, purposefully building a foundation to keep oneself and others learning, changing, and thriving in the long term.” – Gianpiero Petriglieri, Associate Professor of Organizational Behaviour, INSEAD
About the Author Whitney Johnson is the leading thinker on driving corporate innovation through personal disruption. She cofounded Rose Park Advisors, a boutique investment firm, with Clayton Christensen, and was an "Institutional Investor"-ranked analyst for eight consecutive years, including at Merrill Lynch. She is a frequent contributor to the "Harvard Business Review," and the author of "Dare, Dream, Do: Remarkable Things Happen When You Dare to Dream" (Bibliomotion 2012). She was named a Future Thinker Finalist by Management Thinkers50 in 2013, and one of Fortune s 55 Most Influential Women on Twitter in 2014. Johnson is cofounder of the Forty Over 40 List, recognizing women who are reinventing, disrupting, and making an impact. She is represented by the New Leaf Speakers bureau, along with other key thought leaders in innovation and business."
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26 of 27 people found the following review helpful. Jumping the S-Curve: How to Avoid Being Disrupted by the Forces of Disruption By Thomas M. Loarie “Disrupt Yourself” is the best book on career transition and development to come along in a number of years. In it author Whitney Johnson takes a page out of mentor Clayton Christensen’s “disruption” playbook to provide structure on career disruption…not how to avoid being disrupted by forces of disruption but how to leverage disruption and change one’s trajectory to increase meaning and happiness.The “S-Curve”, more commonly called the “life cycle” has been used for years to show how some companies, products, technologies, and start-ups blossom while others wither. Johnson in “Disrupting Yourself” now adapts this to career planning.Playing it safe is not safe in today’s fast-paced world. While some think it is smarter to “stick to the knitting”, Johnson shows why it is safer to jump to a “new S-Curve” where opportunity, steep learning, innovation, and personal growth fuel personal productivity and happiness. Shifting successfully to a new learning curve demands managing these seven variables:• taking the right risks• playing to one’s distinctive strengths• embracing constraint• battling entitlements• stepping back to grow• giving failure it’s due• and being discovery drivenJohnson devotes a chapter to each.The really big idea of this book centers on the ability to distinguish between competitive risk and market risk. Pursuing a career where there is plenty of supply (and competition) is to take market risk. We need to first assess how crowded the market is, and then what is needed to compete successfully. All who have hired have the normal distribution of resumes received for a specific job. The bulk of the resumes are indistinguishable. Competition is tough.Another and better approach is to go where no one else is going and to position you to play where no one else is playing. Chances are that very few people will be able to offer what you can. This is at the core of disrupting yourself.The decision to jump to a new curve requires guts and perseverance (staying power) but as Johnson notes, those that do also are rewarded with expanded horizons, increased productivity, improved emotional and physical well-being and high-velocity growth when the inflection point is reached. “Nature favors risk-takers.”Risk mitigation is helped by discerning our unique strengths. Johnson supplements Rath’s “Strengths-Finders 2.0,” which I recommend, with great questions to provide additional insights:• What skills have helped you survive?• What makes you feel strong?• When do you feel invigorated, inquisitive, successful?• What exasperates you about others?• What made you different, even an oddball, as a child?• What compliments do you shrug off?• What are your hard-one skills?I have been co-leading a ministry for executives, managers, and professionals’ in-transition since 2002. We have served over 6000 people regardless of faith tradition and presently have 1300 participants. I recently presented “Disrupting Yourself” as a new concept to consider in personal career development. This produced an “ah-ha” moment for all participants.Johnson has provided structure and guidelines for how to find a new path. Disrupting yourself is critical to avoiding stagnation and to fast-tracking your personal and career growth. It will “force you up steep foothills of new information, relationships, and systems.” Progress will be exponential.
8 of 8 people found the following review helpful. A fantastic, timely guide to personal growth during the era of digital disruption By Dave Birckhead There has never been a more interesting, exciting time to work in technology-fueled business transformation. The turbo-charged pace of change unlocks tremendous new opportunities. It seems like every day brings a new startup, a new technology, a new way of working, a new innovation. Many industries—from financial services to publishing—face massive shifts in their businesses, increased competition, and significant changes in customer behavior and expectations. The scale and pace of the change is without precedent. Much has been written about this digital disruption and the business strategies and tactics to address it. But, what of the associated human dimension and sometimes the human cost?Whitney Johnson’s new book, Disrupt Yourself, couldn’t be better timed to address this urgent question. For so many of us, the pace of change can seem simultaneously exhilarating and overwhelming. In response, Whitney lends her wise, insightful voice to illustrate how disruptive innovation frameworks can be applied to our own particular lives and careers. Thriving during this time of change also means pushing ourselves out of comfort zones and accelerating lifelong learning.Among the ideas and advice Whitney shares in the book, two in particular resonated with me the most:Resist entitlement. As we grow in our careers and accumulate achievements, many of us develop a sense that we are entitled to success and associated rewards. After years of effort, the school we attended, the degree we earned, the certifications we achieved, the promotions gained, the titles and raises awarded can accumulate to give us the sense that we deserve something more from life. And, that actually works against our learning and development. Due to the scale and pace of change, those who succeed in the digital and social era will be those who make ongoing learning a priority, and resisting any sense of entitlement--staying humble and grateful--supports that quest.Disrupt yourself before disrupting others. For those leading innovation and change efforts in established companies, starting new businesses, or consulting to help firms with digital transformation, Whitney reminds us that change begins with each of us, at a personal level. Similar to “the buck stops here,” we now must think in terms of “the change starts here.” We must first change ourselves in order to help others and our organizations change. Whitney writes:“Most of us are brimming with the confidence, even competence, to change the world. It is vital that we are also equipped with the humility to understand that changing the world and keeping innovation alive require that we change ourselves.”I had the opportunity to read Disrupt Yourself over a fall weekend at the beach, a perfect time and place for reading and reflection. As with so much of Whitney’s writing and good advice over the years, this book challenged my thinking and reminded me of what’s really important as I pursue my own journey of personal disruption. I will be recommending Disrupt Yourself to friends, colleagues and clients.
10 of 11 people found the following review helpful. Inspiring, motivating, real world guidelines. This isn't just for the C-suite. By S. Elkins Inspiring - and with clear ideas and direction for forward movement. I rarely read self-help style books; knowing it was written by Whitney Johnson automatically made this different. This is not a typical book about changing your attitude to improve your life. This has real stories of real people who... FAILED. And came back from failure to succeed in many ways. Not only does it have real world, real people examples, Whitney offers clear direction about what makes us fear failure and how to move beyond that fear. I read this book in two evenings and made notes for my next disruption. I can't wait to share it with other people who need just that nudge to action. She's a master.
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