Whitney Johnson: How to Build an “A” Team

The Unmistakable Creative Podcast

Srinivas Rao

Society & Culture

4.8 • 1K Ratings

🗓️ 4 July 2018

⏱️ 49 minutes

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Summary

What’s the secret to having an engaged and productive team? It’s having a plan for developing all employees, no matter where they are on their personal learning curves. Whitney Johnson is an expert in this field and built her ideas of constructing a proficient team off her ideas of how to “disrupt yourself” from a more personal level.

Whitney Johnson was named one of the world’s fifty most influential management thinkers by Thinkers50in 2017. She is the author of the bestselling Build an A Team. She was the co-founder of the Disruptive Innovation Fund with Harvard’s Clayton Christensen and was an award-winning Wall Street analyst. You can follow her on Twitter @johnsonwhitney

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0:00.0	So what happened is after I wrote Disrupt Yourself, I had a lot of people say to me as I was, you know, speaking and consulting and coaching, they're like, okay, I get it. I want to disrupt myself. But how do I let my, how do I get my
0:15.0	my boss to let me disrupt myself and how do I create an ecosystem where that
0:19.4	disruption is possible and so that started that question for me.
0:23.5	How do I answer that question?
0:25.4	And so then as I started to drill down on that question, I realized, okay, well, the big
0:31.0	aha around that was, actually if you want to have a company that can remain competitive if you want a company that can survive if you want a company that can survive if you want to lower your about to be disrupted score, you actually have to create a team or a situation where people are able to disrupt themselves periodically.
0:52.0	And so that personal disruption will allow your team to be
0:55.8	effective. So it was kind of an outside in thing. It's certainly not where I started, it's more
1:01.1	of where I ended up. I'm Sreni Rao and this is the unmistakable creative
1:09.2	podcast where you get a window into the stories and insights of the
1:12.3	most innovative and creative minds
1:14.1	who started movements, built thriving businesses, written best selling books, and created
1:18.4	insanely interesting art.
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1:49.6	Check the Uber app. Whitney, welcome to the unmistakable Chris. up. Yeah, you are. Okay, good. I'm just like, oh, I hope I got that right. Yeah, well, it's wonderful to have you back here for a second time. I wanted to bring you back because I know you have a new book out, we will talk about but before we get to that
2:14.4	I want to start by asking you what did your parents do for a living and what
2:19.2	impacted what they did for a living end up having on the choices that you've made with your life and your career?
2:24.0	Mmm, such a great question. Okay, so my father was an attorney and
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