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With your host, Steve McKitis.

Hello and thanks so much for joining us here

for episode 286 with Whitney Johnson.

This one's a lot of fun.

Whitney is talking about your learning curve and disrupting it and thinking about where others fall

on their learning curves and how it all comes together

in a beautiful recipe for you staying engaged and

not bored and teams getting good ideas flowing and so much more. So you'll learn

one how to optimize each stage of learning, two, the three key stages of your learning curve,

and three, the importance of hiring the right boss. So if you'd like to check out the show notes or

the transcript or the links to items that we've referenced. It's over at awesome at your job

dot com slash f286. Now here is Whitney's story. Whitney Johnson is a

CEO advisor and frequent contributor to the Harvard Business Review and she has over a

million followers on LinkedIn. She's the author of the critically acclaimed

Disrupt Yourself putting the power of disruptive innovation to work and she's an

award-winning Wall Street analyst who co-founded the Disruptive Innovation

Fund with Clayton Christensen.

She is a frequent keynote speaker on disruption and has been recognized as one of the world's most

influential management

thinkers 50 and fortune. She also hosts the weekly Disrupt

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