Whitney Johnson || Smart Business Growth
The Psychology Podcast
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🗓️ 10 November 2022
⏱️ 49 minutes
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Summary
Today we welcome Whitney Johnson, CEO and co-founder of the tech-enabled talent development company Disruption Advisors. Whitney is a globally recognized thought leader, keynote speaker, executive coach, and consultant. She is a frequent lecturer at Harvard Business Publishing’s Corporate Learning division. She is also the bestselling author of Disrupt Yourself and Build an A Team. Her latest book is called Smart Growth: How to Grow Your People to Grow Your Company.
In this episode, I talk to Whitney Johnson about business growth. According to Whitney, the development of the individual comes first before the company’s. Growth can be better understood using the S Curve of Learning which has three phases: the Launch Point, the Sweet Spot, and Mastery. By comprehending the cycle of growth, we can find ways to move forward when we feel stuck in both our professional and personal lives. We also touch on the topics of flow, creativity, transcendence, success, and leadership.
Website: www.whitneyjohnson.com
Twitter: @johnsonwhitney
Topics
01:35 Disruption Advisors
07:55 The S Curve of Learning
11:13 Optimize your team for growth
14:23 Mastery and transcendence
16:18 Peak experience and peak performance
21:26 The S Curve as a retention tool
25:00 Excavating your shadow values
28:13 Grow your people to grow your company
33:53 Create the conditions for growth
37:19 The S Curve is a dopamine management exercise
40:20 When to quit and change careers
42:51 Changing the metrics of success
47:16 Disrupt yourself a little bit everyday
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| 0:00.0 | So that's what I would say is it's not the great resignation, it's the great aspiration, |
| 0:04.5 | and it can start as simply as drawing an ass on a piece of paper and having a conversation about |
| 0:10.3 | where do you think you are in your growth? |
| 0:19.9 | Hello and welcome to the Psychology Podcast. Today we welcome Whitney Johnson to the show. |
| 0:24.8 | Whitney is the CEO and co-founder of the tech-enabled talent development company Disruption Advisors. |
| 0:31.2 | Whitney is a globally recognized thought leader, keynote speaker, executive coach, and consultant. |
| 0:36.3 | She is a frequent lecturer at Harvard Business Publishing's Corporate Learning Division. |
| 0:40.4 | She is also the best-selling author of Disrupt Yourself and Build an A-Team. Her latest book is |
| 0:46.6 | called Smart Growth, How to Grow Your People to Grow Your Company. In this episode, I talk to |
| 0:51.8 | Whitney Johnson about business growth. According to Whitney, the development of the individual |
| 0:56.7 | comes first before the companies. Growth can be better understood using the S-curve of learning, |
| 1:02.0 | which has three phases, the launch point, the sweet spot, and mastery. By comprehending the |
| 1:07.6 | cycle of growth, we can find ways to move forward when we feel stuck in both our professional and |
| 1:12.0 | personal lives. We also touch on the topics of flow, creativity, transcendence, success, and leadership. |
| 1:18.9 | I really like Whitney's approach to business, and I find it to be a real human approach. |
| 1:23.9 | We have lots of common interests and common ways and frameworks of seeing the world, |
| 1:29.4 | and I think you'll really enjoy this episode. So without further ado, I bring you Whitney Johnson. |
| 1:34.9 | Whitney Johnson is so great to have you on this psychology podcast today. |
| 1:39.1 | Scott, I'm so happy to be here. |
| 1:41.2 | I would like you to tell our audience a little bit about yourself before we dive into your great work, |
| 1:46.0 | and maybe tell us a little bit about the work you're doing with the disruption advisors. |
| 1:50.2 | That's always such an open-ended question, isn't it? Tell us a little bit about yourself. |
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