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Disrupt Yourself: Putting The Power Of
Disruptive Innovation To Work with Whitney Johnson
Pursuing a disruptive course isn’t just a nice thing to do, there’s a compelling business case: the odds of success are 6x higher and the revenue opportunity is 20x greater. And the most fundamental unit of disruption is the individual.
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Whitney Johnson was recognized as one of the world’s most in uential management thinkers in 2015, and was a nalist for the Top Thinkers on Talent at the Biennial Thinkers 50 ceremony in London. She is best known for her work on driving corporate innovation through personal disruption. She is formerly an Institutional Investor-ranked analyst for eight consecutive years, including at Merrill Lynch, and is the former president and co- founder of a boutique investment rm with Harvard Business School’s Clayton Christensen.
Johnson is the author of the critically-acclaimed Disrupt Yourself: Putting the Power of Disruptive Innovation to Work, one of Inc. Magazines Top 100 Business Books in 2015. She is a frequent contributor to the Harvard Business Review, a LinkedIn uencer, co-founder of Forty Women over 40 to Watch, and was named one of Fortune’s 55 Women to Follow on Twitter in 2014.
Develop individual strategies to drive corporate innovation through personal disruption
Harness the power of personal disruption so your team can move from stuck to unstuck
Create a value-based strategy for your company and yourself where it didn’t before exist