Grow your business by developing your people

Whitney Johnson’s Marketing Podcast

in this episode Duct Tape Marketing Podcast, I interviewed Whitney Johnson.Whitney is the CEO of Disruption Advisors, a technology-based talent development company. She is one of the top ten business thinkers in the world by Thinkers50. Whitney is an expert in leadership for smart growth and co-founded the Disruptive Innovation Fund with the late Clayton Christensen of Harvard Business School. She is also the author of a new book – Grow Smart: How to Train Your People to Grow Your Company.

Key takeaways:

Growth is the goal. Helping people reach their potential and become who they want to be and who they are capable of being is is what leaders strive for. As individuals grow, so do organizations. If you want to lead and scale an organization, the transformation starts from within. In this episode, I talk with Whitney Johnson about growing your business the smart way by fostering a culture of learning and growth.

Questions I asked Whitney Johnson:

• [1:26] How do you apply the S-curve of learning to growth and leadership?
• [2:48] Sometimes, there is a point in the learned S-curve where it actually drops off sharply even if it takes off. Is this what you see happening in personal development?
• [4:09] I own my own business for the next 30 years. And I don’t think growth is just an S-curve — what do you think about that?
• [6:50] Would you say your book is both about personal development and leadership development?
• [8:14] People need to start asking themselves, instead of just saying this is the new way for us to do things, what are the new habits or new questions?
• [9:54] What advice do you have for those trying to get through long-term parts where they may not see any progress?
• [13:25] How would a leader or someone trying to develop personally apply the ideas from your book “Collecting Like a Child”?
• [15:43] Do you think the leadership part of your book might be harder to install due to different cultural aspects within different organizations?
• [17:19] Your book is full of interviews – do you think there is a story in the book that really hits the spot?
• [19:37] Where can people find more information about your book and your work?

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