S6E149: Whitney Johnson - Smart Growth: Understanding your S-Curve journey

In today's episode of the Idea to Value Podcast, we speak with award-winning author and innovation specialist Whitney Johnson. See the full episode at With nearly 2 million followers on Linkedin, she is one of the most popular speakers and experts on innovation, and we speak about her new book Smart Growth: How to Grow your People to Grow your Company . Topics covered in this episode: 00:00:45 - Whitney's journey from Wall Street to her time with Clayton Christensen, and finally to her work as a disruption advisor 00:03:00 - What is growth and the S-Curve popularised by E. Rogers ? 00:06:00 - Why growth does not feel consistent, and why it can be so slow and frustrating at the beginning 00:09:30 - How people can be in a state of Flow in their S-Curve for a long time. 00:12:00 - Why it is so hard to create and innovate as you get older, and the importance of starting with small steps to form a habit 00:16:30 - Your journey of moving through several S-Curves throughout your life, and sometimes multiple simultaneously 00:21:00 - Using S-Curves to get the best growth performance out of teams, and entire companies as a portfolio of S-Curves 00:26:00 - How to have a challenging conversation with someone else who might need to grow, but it might become uncomfortable Links mentioned in this episode: Smart Growth Book: Whitney Johnson's Website: Whitney on Linkedin: Bonus: This episode was made possible by our premium innovation and creativity training. Take your innovation and creativity capabilities to the next level by investing in yourself now, at *

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S6E149: Whitney Johnson - Smart Growth: Understanding your S-Curve journey is an episode from Idea to Value - Creativity and Innovation by Nick Skillicorn.

This episode is 29:44 long.

This episode was published on Feb 3, 2022.

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