Disruptive innovation is a common business model today, but can you apply these principles to your own career? Whitney Johnson believes that by following the same rules disruptive business do, you can create your own career path and achieve success more quickly than if you follow the corporate path.
In four simple steps, Johnson outlines how you can build a more satisfying career path using disruptive thinking. She uses real-life examples to show how people have built successful non-linear careers by focusing on their strengths and unique abilities.
Non-linear careers is a topic Borderless Consultants Rosalie Harrison and June Nilsson will cover during their session at the Women in Leadership Forum at the CPhI Congress on 5 October. You can share your experience with them via Twitter @borderlessexec #WomeninLeadership or LinkedIn http://bit.ly/2aAevd8
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There’s been a lot of buzz about a 4-day workweek. But it will be the ‘4 + 1’ workweek that ultimately wins out: 4 days of “work” and 1 day of “learning.” Several forces are converging in a way that point toward the inevitability of this workplace future.
How can leaders help their teams combat change exhaustion — or step out of its clutches? Too often, organizations simply encourage their employees to be resilient, placing the burden of finding ways to feel better solely on individuals. Leaders need to recognize that change exhaustion is not an individual issue, but a collective one that needs to be addressed at the team or organization level.
In this article, the author describes how a concept called tangential immersion can help anyone persevere in a boring task: Through a series of studies with more than 2,000 participants, she and her coauthors found that people often quit boring tasks prematurely because they don’t take up enough of their attention to keep them engaged.
