Garry Ridge is the CEO of WD-40. He has served in that role for more than two decades, repeatedly disrupting the processes and the culture inside a company that’s best known for a selling a can of oil that silences squeaks. You don’t have to look hard for evidence of his company’s success. Try naming any other can of grease.

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Marco Rosamilia is a small business owner whose clients are occasionally terrified of the service he provides. He co-founded a trapeze business with his brother in New York City, then added a location in Arizona. He's in the business of helping people overcome fear. The challenges Marco and his clients face offer some fascinating parallels for how we think about disruption.

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Marco Rosamilia is a small business owner whose clients are occasionally terrified of the service he provides. He co-founded a trapeze business with his brother in New York City, then added a location in Arizona. He’s in the business of helping people overcome fear. The challenges Marco and his clients face offer some fascinating parallels for how we think about disruption.

Show Notes: https://whitneyjohnson.com/trapeze-disrupt-yourself-marco-rosamilia/

Marco Rosamilia is a small business owner whose clients are occasionally terrified of the service he provides. He co-founded a trapeze business with his brother in New York City, then added a location in Arizona. He’s in the business of helping people overcome fear. The challenges Marco and his clients face offer some fascinating parallels for how we think about disruption.

Meredith Kopit Levien disrupts and is disrupted by the business side of journalism on a daily basis as executive vice president and chief revenue officer at the New York Times. It's her job to find new ways to pay for quality reporting and innovative storytelling as the very word 'newspaper' starts to sound more and more like 8-track.

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Meredith Kopit Levien disrupts and is disrupted by the business side of journalism on a daily basis as executive vice president and chief revenue officer at the New York Times. It’s her job to find new ways to pay for quality reporting and innovative storytelling as the very word ‘newspaper’ starts to sound more and more like 8-track. 

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Meredith Kopit Levien disrupts and is disrupted by the business side of journalism on a daily basis as executive vice president and chief revenue officer at the New York Times. It’s her job to find new ways to pay for quality reporting and innovative storytelling as the very word ‘newspaper’ starts to sound more and more like 8-track.

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One day in 2015 Patrick Pichette woke up and realized he no longer wanted to be the chief financial officer at Google. He didn't want to be an executive at all. What he really wanted to do was spend time with his family, enjoy the outdoors a bit, maybe find out whether or not he had a marathon in him. So he disrupted himself with a letter he posted online detailing the leap he was about to take and off he went.

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One day in 2015 Patrick Pichette woke up and realized he no longer wanted to be the chief financial officer at Google. He didn’t want to be an executive at all. What he really wanted to do was spend time with his family, enjoy the outdoors a bit, maybe find out whether or not he had a marathon in him. So he disrupted himself with a letter he posted online detailing the leap he was about to take and off he went. 

Show Notes: https://whitneyjohnson.com/patrick-pichette-stepping-back-personal-disruption/

 

One day in 2015 Patrick Pichette woke up and realized he no longer wanted to be the chief financial officer at Google. He didn’t want to be an executive at all. What he really wanted to do was spend time with his family, enjoy the outdoors a bit, maybe find out whether or not he had a marathon in him. So he disrupted himself with a letter he posted online detailing the leap he was about to take and off he went.

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