Download and listen-on-the-go to the 6th of 14 special episodes

What does it take to be the disruptor and not the disrupted? This series of special episodes provides clues. Scott and I are featuring our discussions about best-selling business books as well as our conversations with world-class business authors. (Links for Episodes 1 through 5 are under Resources below).

This week we’re featuring our conversation with best-selling author Whitney Johnson, the leading thinker on driving corporate innovation through personal disruption. She is the author of the critically-acclaimed book Disrupt Yourself: Putting the Power of Disruptive Innovation to Work. 

Whitney and her work have been covered in The Atlantic, BBC, CNN, Fast Company, the Guardian, Harvard Business Review, Wall Street Journal, and other media. (see Whitney’s bio below).

Find out:

* What it means to embrace the power of your constraints

* How constraints improve decision making

* Three immediately useful ideas for turning constraints of all kinds to your advantage

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About Whitney Johnson

Whitney Johnson is the leading thinker on driving corporate innovation through personal disruption, and is the author of the critically-acclaimed book Disrupt Yourself: Putting the Power of Disruptive Innovation to Work. She co-founded Rose Park Advisors, a boutique investment firm, with Clayton Christensen, and was an Institutional Investor-ranked analyst for eight consecutive years, including at Merrill Lynch. She is a frequent contributor to the Harvard Business Review, and is also the author of the book Dare, Dream Do: Remarkable Things Happen When You Dare to Dream (2012).

Whitney has been widely recognized for her contributions, including being named a Future Thinker Finalist by management Thinkers50 in 2013, and was one of Fortune’s 55 Most Influential Women on Twitter in 2014. Whitney is also the co-founder of the Forty Over 40 list, recognizing women who are reinventing, disrupting, and making an impact. Find out more about Whitney Johnson.

Resources for This Episode

* Listen to our conversation with Whitney in Episode 41: Disrupt Yourself: A Powerful Idea For Succeeding in Unexpected Ways

* Find out more about Disrupt Yourself  — order on Amazon.com

* Read Whitney Jonson’s articles in Harvard Business Review

* Listen to previous episodes of our special summer series on “Being the Disrupter and Not the Disrupted”:

* Pam Harper & Scott Harper:

Download and listen-on-the-go to the 5th of 14 special episodes

What does it take to be the disruptor and not the disrupted? This series of special episodes provides clues. Scott and I are featuring our discussions about best-selling business books as well as our conversations with world-class business authors. (Links for Episodes 1 through 4 under Resources below).

This week we’re featuring our conversation with Ron Friedman, Ph.D. about creating an extraordinary workplace.

Ron is an award-winning social psychologist who specializes in human motivation. He’s also the author of the best-selling book  The Best Place to Work: The Art and Science of Creating an Extraordinary Workplace. Ron is a frequent contributor to the Harvard Business Review, Psychology Today, Fast Company, Forbes, and CNN (see bio below).

You’ll gain insights on:

* Three essential needs that people of every age require from their workplace in order to collaborate, solve complex problems, make bold decisions, and take new actions

* What video gaming can teach us about becoming an extraordinary workplace

* Three immediately actionable ideas for creating the best place to work

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About Ron Friedman

Ron Friedman is an award-winning social psychologist who specializes in human motivation. He has served on the faculty of the University of Rochester, Nazareth College, and Hobart and William Smith Colleges, and has consulted for some of the world’s most successful organizations.

Popular accounts of his research have appeared on NPR and in major newspapers, including The New York Times, Financial Times, the Globe and Mail, Washington Post, The Guardian, as well as magazines such as Men’s Health, Entrepreneur, and Success.

Ron is also the author of a highly-acclaimed new book called The Best Place to Work: The Art and Science of Creating an Extraordinary Workplace. He is a frequent contributor to the Harvard Business Review, Psychology Today, Fast Company, Forbes, and CNN. Read More about Ron Friedman

Resources for This Episode

* Read about The Best Place to Work: The Art and Science of Creating an Extraordinary Workplace

* Listen to previous episodes of our special summer series on “Being the Disrupter and Not the Disrupted”:

* Pam Harper & Scott Harper: Pam & Scott’s Book Pairing for Thinking Differently (Episode B-1)

* Guest Terence Mauri: Winning in the Age of Disruption: Secrets of the Leader’s Mindset (Episode B-2)

* Guest Judith E.

Download and listen-on-the-go to the 4th of 14 special episodes

What does it take to be the disruptor and not the disrupted? This series of special episodes provides clues. Scott and I are featuring our discussions about best-selling business books as well as our conversations with world-class business authors. (Links for Episodes 1 through 3 under Resources below).

This week we’re featuring our insights about three pairs of books that highlight and offer solutions to some of the paradoxes of innovation. We discuss pairs of best-selling business books in three themes: 

* Embracing the power of uncertainty: Superforecasting and Losing the Signal

* The mandate to grow beyond current success: The Innovator’s Dilemma and Disrupt Yourself

* Redefining our habits of competition and collaboration: Friend & Foe and The Power of Habit

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Pamela S. Harper is the Founding Partner and CEO of Business Advancement Inc., a strategic growth advisory firm based in Glen Rock, NJ. For more than 20 years, Pam has applied her gift for finding the hidden opportunities in every situation to helping clients in entrepreneurial, mid-market, and Fortune 500 companies across 30 industries create hundreds of millions of dollars of value in both top and bottom line growth.

Prior to founding BAI, Pam skyrocketed into the ranks of management by taking a progressive series of newly created organizational development positions is companies ranging from mid-market to Fortune 500 across multiple industries, all undergoing dramatic change and growth.

Pam has been quoted in, featured in, or written articles for prominent business media including Business Week, Investor’s Business Daily, Chiefexecutive.net, CEO.com and other major media. Her book, Preventing Strategic Gridlock, has been used as a text in universities around the world.

D. Scott Harper, Ph.D., is Sr. Partner with Business Advancement Inc. Throughout his career Scott has devoted himself to understanding why things work the way they do, and how to apply those insights to create new value. Scott helps clients sift through complexity and take full advantage of opportunities by discovering the hidden side of everything.

Before joining BAI in 2010, Scott held a succession of increasingly accountable innovation positions in the consumer healthcare industry. Since then, he has been published and quoted in prominent business media outlets including Chief Executive Magazine, CEO.com, CEO World Magazine, and the IndUS Business Journal.

Resources for This Episode

* Read about Superforecasting by Philip E. Tetlock & Dan Gardner

* Read about Losing the Signal by Jacquie McNish & Sean Silcoff

* Read about