S2E8 Whitney Johnson - Jumping From Comfort to Challenge, Again

How can we learn to play to our strengths and also 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."

Links:
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