Lead Change Blog

OCTOBER 26, 2015

What do you perceive when you walk through your company building? Meeting room 2 with a team that is talking fast and loud and in an enthusiastic tone of voice while they energetically fill the whiteboard with drawings and ideas. Johnson shares this insightful S-curve derived from research on innovation. Three Meeting Rooms.

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Let's Grow Leaders

FEBRUARY 28, 2022

In this week’s Asking for a Friend, I speak with Whitney Johnson, author of Smart Growth, about how to support your team along the S curve of employee growth. When I read Whitney’s new book, I was struck by how her model reflected my own journey of taking the leap from Verizon Wireless executive to entrepreneur.

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Mills Scofield

APRIL 15, 2012

Saul cites Whitney Johnson’s description of what jobs social media does for her [3]. Quick, tell me your organization’s business model. Can you tell me what a business model is? Oh, it’s how we make money! Therein lies the problem. Your organization, whether for-profit or not-for-profit, has a business model.

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Marshall Goldsmith

NOVEMBER 9, 2016

Whitney Johnson – Thinkers 50 #49 Management Thinker 2015, Disruptive Innovation expert, author Disrupt Yourself: Putting the Power of Disruptive Innovation to Work. Dear Friends, Greetings from Dallas to Riyadh! A few months ago I came up with the idea of mentoring 15 people at no charge. I called the project 15 Coaches.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 1, 2018

Whitney Johnson, an executive coach, argues that on-the-job learning is the key to keeping people motivated. Johnson is the author of the book Build an A-Team: Play to Their Strengths and Lead Them Up the Learning Curve. Download this podcast.

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Marshall Goldsmith

FEBRUARY 8, 2018

Whitney Johnson – Author of the critically acclaimed: Disrupt Yourself. I am very excited to announce the selection of the 100 Coaches in our pay-it-forward project! This is an amazing group of talented people. For those of you who haven’t heard of the project, here is a little back story. 100 COACHES.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 3, 2018

The first and most common part of onboarding is teaching new employees the information they need to function day in and day out: where to park their car and get an ID card, how to navigate the building, how to enroll in health benefits and educate themselves on regulations and policies. You and Your Team Series. Whitney Johnson.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 2, 2018

Even people who have achieved a great deal of career success aren’t immune to these feelings, says Whitney Johnson, an executive coach and the author several books including Build an A-Team. If you find yourself dwelling on what holds you back, Johnson recommends “reframing the constraints.”

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 11, 2018

As executive coach Monique Valcour wrote in HBR, the “manager-employee dyad is the new building block of learning and development in firms.” If I think they’ve gotten to the top of their learning curve on my team, and I can’t figure out a way to help them grow, I will support their efforts to get a job somewhere else.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 12, 2016

First impressions matter so much because they happen fast, and they are stubborn , says Whitney Johnson , the author of Disrupt Yourself: Putting the Power of Disruptive Innovation to Work. The saying “You only have one chance to make a first impression” holds true in many situations, from job interviews to sales calls.

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