Whitney Johnson, host of Disrupt Yourself

Published: Oct. 22, 2019, 7:02 p.m.

In this interview, Adela chats with Whitney Johnson, the host of the Disrupt Yourself podcast. The theme for the October PBC playlist was \u201cDisruption\u201d and we listened to an episode of Disrupt Yourself with Whitney Johnson titled \u201c#100: Take the Right Kinds of Risks.\u201d
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\nWhitney is an absolute powerhouse. She is ranked on the Thinkers50 list, which is a global ranking of the 50 leading management thinkers and she\u2019s an expert on disruptive innovation and personal disruption, a framework she developed after co-founding the Disruptive Innovation Fund with Harvard Business School\u2019s Clayton Christensen. She\u2019s written a number of critically-acclaimed books on the power of disruption in both the business and the personal realms.
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\nHere\u2019s a quick hit list of the things they talked about:
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\n \t* Podcast Brunch Club listening list on Disruption
\n \t* Adela\u2019s interview on the Disrupt Yourself podcast
\n \t* Loss aversion theory: \u201cThinking, Fast and Slow\u201d by Daniel Kahneman
\n \t* Whitney\u2019s interview with:
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\n \t* Bren\xe9 Brown: Called to Courage
\n \t* Adam Grant: Give and Take
\n \t* James Clear: Just One Percent Better
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\n \t* 7 accelerants of personal disruption (see episode #80: \u201cDisrupt Your Self Today\u201d):
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\n \t* Take the right kinds of risks/play where no one else is playing (see episode #100)
\n \t* Play to your distinctive strengths (see episode #120)
\n \t* Embrace your constraints
\n \t* Battle our sense of entitlement
\n \t* Step back to grow
\n \t* Give failure its due
\n \t* Be driven by discovery
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\n \t* Whitney has written three critically-acclaimed books:
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\n \t* \u201cDisrupt Yourself: Master Relentless Change and Speed Up Your Learning Curve\u201d
\n \t* \u201cBuild an A-Team: Play to Their Strengths and Lead Them Up the Learning Curve\u201d
\n \t* <a href="https://www.amazon.com/Dare-Dream-Do-Remarkable-Things/dp/1937134121/ref=pd_cp_14_2/140-2926304...