Whitney Johnson shares how we can learn to play to our strengths and still learn as we grow. Join Laura Gassner Otting as she hosts this episode of LGOtv with special guest, Whitney Johnson – Innovation Expert, Disruption Theorist, Framework Codifier.
Timestamps:
2:55 – “If we, as an organization, want to accelerate our growth, we’re going to use this mechanism of personal disruption to allow people to do something new.”
7:20 – “That’s the challenge: separating what you do from your identity and your sense of self.”
9:27 – The S-Curve explained.
13:10 – “Launch point, sweet spot, high-end – It’s slow, fast, and slow – That’s how we grow.”
16:40 – You’re bored of winning. It isn’t hard anymore for you.
18:22 – “If you’re not growing, you’re going to find a way to do it.”
23:29 – “When you jump to a new S-curve, you are actually asking everyone else around you to jump to a new S-curve as well.”
26:50 – The importance of transition time.
33:02 – “That ended up anchoring her because she was an expert at work that anchored her to do all that hard stuff at home.”
39:51 – As women, we’re told not to be ambitious.
42:30 – “I surround myself with people who say, ‘You’re not thinking big enough. Go climb a bigger mountain.’”
45:25 – You’ll never outperform your inner circle.
48:45 – “I realized that I love the idea of vacations, but I’m actually really bad at taking vacations.”
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Whitney Johnson is the CEO of boutique consultancy WLJ Advisors, an Inc. 5000 2020 honoree, one of the fastest-growing private companies in America. Whitney is an expert on helping high-growth organizations develop high-growth individuals, as one of the 50 leading business thinkers in the world as named by Thinkers50. She is an award-winning author, world-class keynote speaker, frequent lecturer for Harvard Business School’s Corporate Learning and an executive coach and advisor to CEOs.
Washington Post Best Selling Author and Motivational Keynote Speaker, Laura Gassner Otting, inspires people to push past the doubt and indecision that keep great ideas in limbo because her presentations make listeners think bigger and accept greater challenges that reach beyond their limited scope of belief.
She delivers strategic thinking, well-honed wisdom, and perspective generated by decades of navigating change across the start-up, nonprofit, political, as well as philanthropic landscapes. Laura dares listeners to find their voice, and generate the confidence needed to tackle larger-than-life challenges. She leads them to seek new ways of leading, managing, and mentoring others.