Whitney Johnson - Build an A Team: Play to Their Strengths and Lead Them up the Learning Curve

Every organization is a collection of individual S – or learning curves. You build an A-team by optimizing these individual curves. By managing people all along the S-curve and knowing what to do when they reach the top of the curve. As employees are allowed, even required, to surf their individual S-curve waves, disrupting themselves, you will be less vulnerable to disruption and get the gold star -- be a boss people want to work for. You will learn: Why it's important to hire for potential rather than proficiency How to manage your team as a collection of S-curves How to examine your own mindset as it relates to disruption and looking at your employees as the true resources they are to your organization. How to manage, utilize and engage employees at all levels BIO: Whitney Johnson is one of the 50 leading business thinkers in the world (Thinkers50), an expert on disruptive innovation and personal disruption, a framework codified in the critically-acclaimed book Disrupt Yourself as well as Whitney's new book published by Harvard Business Press in May 2018 - Build an 'A'-Team : Play To Their Strengths and Lead Them Up the Learning Curve ; proprietary framework and diagnostics developed after co-founding the Disruptive Innovation Fund with Harvard Business School's Clayton Christensen; former award-winning stock analyst on Wall Street; WBECS faculty; original cohort of Marshall Goldsmith's Coaches; Coach for Harvard Business School's Executive Education, Harvard Business Review Contributor; LinkedInfluencer. Download a free chapter of Build an A Team.

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Whitney Johnson - Build an A Team: Play to Their Strengths and Lead Them up the Learning Curve is an episode from Reach Personal Branding Interview Series podcast by William Arruda.

This episode is 47:16 long.

This episode was published on Dec 16, 2018.

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