Smart Growth with Whitney Johnson

Because the fundamental unit of growth in any organization is the individual, our starting point for talking about growth is you.

Some of the questions we will answer are:

• Why, despite the desire to learn, can it be so difficult to start something new and stick with it?

• What does it take to gain and maintain momentum?

• Once we’ve made considerable progress, why do we sometimes tire of what we’re doing and even feel we can no longer do it? Why do we outgrow things so quickly?

The more you understand about your deep longing to grow and how

to grow yourself, the greater your capacity to grow your people, to grow your company. That’s smart growth.

The S Curve of Learning is a map to look at your life: where you were, where you are, and where you want to go—a continuous pathway to achieving potential. 

When you can picture yourself moving along this growth curve, you can more easily plan a trajectory and plot your progress. 

You can get smart about your growth.

We welcome the author of "Smart Growth: How to Grow Your People to Grow Your Company", Whitney Johnson.

Timeline:

3.00 To Want to Grow is Human

5.12 S-Curve as a Map, Post-Traumatic Growth

10.15 Speed of Change

13.08 Transforming Leadership, Leaders must lead from the front

15.00 Former Ford CEO Alan Mulally and rituals

16.20 Principles and Values

20.30 Feedback, Collector Phase of S-Curve

29.53 Shadow Values

33.50 Inner Child, Feeling Seen

35.50 New S-Curves don’t always work out

39.50 What do you do when you have more than one really great choice?

45.54 Watch your self talk at the launch phase?

48.48 C.A.R. Framework: Origins in Self-Determination Theory

Connectedness

Autonomy

Relatedness

52.15 Myron Scholes, all is explained by the tails

56 When leaders peak

60 An ecosystem of/for growth, keystone species

In whose ecosystem are you a keystone species?

Whitney is available here:

https://whitneyjohnson.com

https://smartgrowthbook.com