Smart Growth
How to Grow Your People to Grow Your Company
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To help people develop their potential, to articulate and become the self that they want to be, are capable of being, and that best serves them and others in the short and long term is what we as individuals and leaders strive toward.
But how do we grow? It turns out it happens in a predictable way, which means we can understand where we are in our growth and chart a way forward. In this compact, complete guide, Whitney Johnson helps you envision how growth happens and proactively direct yourself, or others in your organization, to help make the leaps needed to achieve goals.
The growth and learning journey comes in three phases, the Launch Point, the Sweet Spot, and the High End, and within each phase, we play roles that keep us moving toward our goals. Compelling examples of successful people will show you when growth is slow and why, and how to keep going, and what to do when growth and learning are almost too fast to keep up with, and how to leap from one growth journey to another.
As individuals grow so do organizations and societies. Growth is learning put into action, ideally action that betters the world as we better ourselves and our small niches within it, both personal and professional. Growth occurs when learning is internalized, when we try something new and invest the effort to move it from being something we do, to something we are.
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Release date
January 11, 2022 -
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OverDrive Listen audiobook
- ISBN: 9781663716170
- File size: 218991 KB
- Duration: 07:36:13
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Languages
- English
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January 10, 2022
“The more you understand about your deep longing to grow... the greater your capacity to grow your people, to grow your company,” writes Johnson (Build an A-Team), CEO of the talent development company Disruption Advisors, in this cogent survey. Johnson uses the idea of an S curve to explore how best to grow and implement change, both as individuals and in a group. She follows the map through its three main parts and stresses that it’s most critical to get things right at the “explorer stage,” the first phase, where one’s goal is set. To that end, Johnson proposes prompts: readers should consider if their goal is achievable, easy to test, and worth the cost. The next phase is the “sweet spot,” where the learning really ramps up, and then there’s “mastery,” where it’s key to “say yes to new challenges or opportunities to find new rewards.” Johnson also offers an insightful look at how leaders can establish an environment that fosters growth in others: managers should not “operate in a bubble,” for example, but collaborate. Key takeaways round out each section, and Johnson is equal parts practical and inspiring. Leaders feeling stuck in a rut may likely find this to be the kick they need to shake things up.
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